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Mac Davis, songwriter, singer, and actor has died.
Taste Of Country ^ | September 29, 2020 | Angela Stefano

Posted on 09/30/2020 5:41:12 AM PDT by PallMal

Mac Davis, the writer of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto" and a former ACM Entertainer of the Year winner, has died. He was 78 years old.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: country; singer
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To: PallMal

Ugh. Now Seth Maxwell and Don Meredith are both gone. RIP.


21 posted on 09/30/2020 5:58:23 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: PallMal
Is it me, or does it seem that more and more people are dying before they reach 80 years old, then say, 20 or 30 years ago?

I dunno, I know several people in their 80's. My dad is 85. I always expect "stars" to die a bit younger. They live a fast-paced, high-stress lifestyle, and there may be too much sex, drugs and booze along the way. "The candle that burns twice as bright...etc". I saw that French actress/singer Juliette Greco died about a week ago at the age of 93.

22 posted on 09/30/2020 5:58:57 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: PallMal

With rich and famous entertainers it’s most likely their lifestyles that do them in, alcohol, cocaine, fatty foods and little or no exercise after they fall off the “B” list..................


23 posted on 09/30/2020 6:00:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks Poot...


24 posted on 09/30/2020 6:01:25 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: PallMal

Oh Lord it’s Hard to be Humble
https://youtu.be/0WTrMuZOZvM

My theme song...


25 posted on 09/30/2020 6:01:29 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Sans-Culotte

My father is also in his mid 80’s, so you do bring up a valid point about stars living that type of life.


26 posted on 09/30/2020 6:04:03 AM PDT by PallMal
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To: PallMal

Heading Home to Lubbock Texas.


27 posted on 09/30/2020 6:06:49 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: PallMal
First Helen Reddy, now Mac Davis. RIP.Both with #1 hits on Billboard's hot 100 a few weeks apart in '72 (I Am Woman and Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me).

Re Helen, I especially liked Delta Dawn. Re Mac, I miss hearing One H*ll of a Woman and Stop and Smell the Roses (hardly heard either since they were new).

RIP Helen and Mac. And Mac, say hi to Pete Gent (creator of your North Dallas Forty character) for us.

ff

28 posted on 09/30/2020 6:07:07 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Red Badger
With rich and famous entertainers it’s most likely their lifestyles that do them in, alcohol, cocaine, fatty foods

You mean high-carb foods.

29 posted on 09/30/2020 6:07:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PallMal

Well, we ‘can’t get hooked on him’ anymore!
Bye guy!


30 posted on 09/30/2020 6:09:24 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: shotgun

I liked him in a little movie called “Possums” where he played a local sportscaster who continued calling “games” every Friday night after the town cancels its football program.


31 posted on 09/30/2020 6:09:37 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: dfwgator

Those, too!........................


32 posted on 09/30/2020 6:09:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: cincinnati65

I’ll have to find it and check it out.


33 posted on 09/30/2020 6:20:39 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Red Badger

“Both 78.......................”

(I believe they call this a pregnant pause.)

To finish your thought:

“Gosh everybody! Joe Biden is also 78!”


34 posted on 09/30/2020 6:27:01 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: PallMal

Lord its hard to be humble. RIP


35 posted on 09/30/2020 6:29:34 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: dfwgator
If you’re talking celebrities from the 70s, it kind of makes sense, it was a time of excess, it takes a toll in the end.

Ask Ringo Starr. He was on the sauce all through the '70s and '80s before cooling it. He can thank God he made it to 80.

ff

36 posted on 09/30/2020 6:29:43 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: PallMal

That guy was quite a song writer for a period of time.


37 posted on 09/30/2020 6:29:45 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: foreverfree

Ringo looks amazing for his age, in spite of it.

Joe Walsh looks great too, he cleaned up too.


38 posted on 09/30/2020 6:31:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PallMal

So Elvis didn’t write “In the Ghetto” himself? You learn something new every day.


39 posted on 09/30/2020 6:44:27 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: OrioleFan

both a fan of the song, and o’s

my ravens got spanked on monday night.


40 posted on 09/30/2020 6:51:05 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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