Billboard ranked it as the No.8 song of 1972. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached No.1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each chart. " Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. But that lasted about maybe five seconds, and then I realized that I had a huge hit.1972 single by Mac Davis "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"įrom the album Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me I remember going, "I wish he hadn't said 'Ghet-to.' I wish he had just said 'In the Ghetto.'" That's a typical, songwriter, you know. I heard it on the radio, driving down the street. (laughs) He wasn't upset with me, he was just mad that he didn't get to write part of that song.ĭo you remember the first time you heard Elvis' record of "In the Ghetto?" The biggest compliment he could have given you. There was a long silence, and he said some foul cuss word and hung up on me. of course, I called Freddy up as I was wont to do in those days and sung him the song at 2 o'clock in the morning. I started singing "In the ghetto," and by about 2 o'clock in the morning, I had written the song. I didn't say anything, went home that night and sat down with that lick. He said, 'Hey, I got this lick that Joe South showed me.' He played this lick on the guitar, and boy, I just heard (sings) "In the ghetto." Nancy Sinatra had signed me to her publishing company, and a buddy of mine, Freddy Weller, came over. Long story short - I couldn't find anything to rhyme with "circle." At any rate, I'd always wanted to write a song about it, where a kid is born, he doesn't have a male parent, and falls into the wrong people and dies just as another kid comes along and replaces him.
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