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Part 2 of 2: Hailing from Lubbock, Texas, Mac Davis began his music career working for Vee Jay Records and Liberty Records in Atlanta. Relocating to Los Angeles in the late 1960s, he became a staff songwriter for Nancy Sinatra\u2019s music publishing company. His early songwriting success came when Elvis Presley recorded several of his songs, including \u201cA Little Less Conversation,\u201d \u201cMemories,\u201d \u201cClean Up Your Own Backyard,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Cry Daddy,\u201d and \u201cIn the Ghetto.\u201d Soon his songs were being recorded by O.C. Smith, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Glen Campbell, Ray Price, and Bobby Goldsboro, who enjoyed a major hit with Mac\u2019s \u201cWatching Scotty Grow\u201d in 1971. Thanks to his success as a songwriter, Davis signed an artist deal with Columbia Records, and later Casablanca Records, scoring thirty-three charting singles between 1970 and 1986. Most of those hits were written by Davis himself, including \u201cI Believe in Music,\u201d \u201cOne Hell of a Woman,\u201d \u201cStop and Smell the Roses,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Hard to be Humble,\u201d \u201cTexas in My Rearview,\u201d \u201cHooked on Music,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re My Bestest Friend,\u201d and the Grammy-nominated #1 pop hit, \u201cBaby Don\u2019t Get Hooked on Me.\u201d He was named both the the Academy of Country Music\u2019s Entertainer of the Year in 1974, hosted his own NBC variety show from 1974 through 1976, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000, and joined the national Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. He\u2019s a three-time Grammy nominee with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he continues to write, most recently collaborating with - and having his songs recorded by - Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, Bruno Mars, and Avicii.