Mac Davis, songwriter, singer, and actor has died.

Taste Of Country ^ | September 29, 2020 | Angela Stefano

[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.

[cdcdawg]

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

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

[Red Badger]

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..................

[shotgun]

Thanks Poot...

[Vendome]

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

My theme song...

[PallMal]

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

[MattMusson]

Heading Home to Lubbock Texas.

[foreverfree]

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.

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[dfwgator]

With rich and famous entertainers it’s most likely their lifestyles that do them in, alcohol, cocaine, fatty foods

You mean high-carb foods.

[Terry L Smith]

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

[cincinnati65]

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.

[Red Badger]

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

[shotgun]

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

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“Both 78.......................”

(I believe they call this a pregnant pause.)

To finish your thought:

“Gosh everybody! Joe Biden is also 78!”

[Phlap]

Lord its hard to be humble. RIP

[foreverfree]

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.

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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

[dfwgator]

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

Joe Walsh looks great too, he cleaned up too.

[Verginius Rufus]

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

[teeman8r]

both a fan of the song, and o’s

my ravens got spanked on monday night.