{"id":24575,"date":"2020-09-30T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24575"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:52:57","slug":"rip-mac-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24575","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Mac Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z093020rip_macdavis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mac Davis, the multi-talented singer-songwriter and actor died yesterday at age 78 from complications of a recent heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davis was an award-winning song writer who first came to notice for writing the popular Elvis Presley songs,<em> In the Ghetto<\/em>, <em>Don&#8217;t Cry Daddy<\/em> and <em>A Little Less Conversation<\/em>.\u00a0 Other singers such as Kenny Rogers, B.J. Thomas, Perry Como, and Helen Reddy (to name just a few) were happy to cover Mac Davis songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Davis wrote hits for himself such as <em>Baby Don&#8217;t Get Hooked on Me<\/em>, <em>Stop and Smell the Roses<\/em> and <em>One Hell of a Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1974, Davis was named the Academy of Country Music&#8217;s Entertainer of the Year.\u00a0 This success led to <em>The Mac Davis Show<\/em> which ran from 1974-1976.\u00a0 Davis caught the acting bug and began his career in <em>North Dallas Forty<\/em>.\u00a0 Davis would spend the rest of his life singing and acting alternating between movies and television and live concerts.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mac Davis&#8217; family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac Davis, the multi-talented singer-songwriter and actor died yesterday at age 78 from complications of a recent heart surgery. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24576,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575\/revisions\/24576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}