“ That’s mah boy.” Davis’ touching and lovingly detailed ode to his five-year-old son was deemed a poor fit for his own catalogue by producer Jerry Fuller, who suggested the song might work better in the more adult-contemporary hands of Bobby Goldsboro. Mac Davis and Helen Reddy, Music and TV Pros Who Died on the Same Day, Had Very Similar Career Arcsīobby Goldsboro, “Watching Scotty Grow” (1970) Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, “Something’s Burning” (1970) Davis wrote the song based on memories he had of his Texas childhood, and realizing the different treatment his Black friend received based on the part of town he lived in. This trenchant social commentary still stands out more than 50 years later for its bold stand on racial inequality and inner-city poverty, and became Presley’s song most associated with Davis, reaching No. “They had asked for a song about looking back over the years, and oddly enough, I had to write it in one night,” Davis told Billboard in 2015. Maybe a little too frisky at times, as the chorus demands of “Hold your mouth and open up your heart and baby, satisfy me” have aged fairly poorly - but the rest of the song is still electric enough that it became a hit a second time around in 2002, when a much-synced Junkie XL remix returned it to the Hot 100.Ĭo-written with Strange specifically for Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special, this nostalgic, wistful ballad of romantic days gone by became Davis’s first major hit as a songwriter, reaching the Hot 100’s top 40. Mac Davis, Iconic Artist & Elvis Songwriter, Dies at 78Įlvis Presley, “A Little Less Conversation” (1968)Ī slice of southern-fried funk unlike quite anything he’d ever recorded before, Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation” married a slithering drum-and-bass groove with jagged guitars and some of The King’s friskiest lyrics, courtesy of Mac Davis and co-writer Billy Strange.
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