Still one more big loss for music. Mac Davis, who hit #1 on the Hot 100 in late 1972 with "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" and also wrote several of Elvis' big latter-day hits ("In The Ghetto"; "Memories"; "Don't Cry Daddy"), passed away in Nashville on Tuesday at the age of 78 following heart surgery:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930."--Linda Ronstadt