| "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" | ||||
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 Side A of the original US single | ||||
| Single by Mac Davis | ||||
| from the album Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me | ||||
| B-side | "Poem for My Little Lady" | |||
| Released | July 1972 (US) | |||
| Recorded | March 1, 1972 | |||
| Studio | FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama | |||
| Genre | Country pop[1] | |||
| Length | 3:06 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mac Davis | |||
| Producer(s) | Rick Hall | |||
| Mac Davis singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached No.1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972. Davis wrote it when the record company demanded he write a tune with a "hook".[2]
The song was also a modest country hit concurrent with its pop success, reaching No. 26 shortly after the peak of that success in the pop realm. It was featured on an episode of The Muppet Show that Mac Davis was hosting.
- ^ Smith, Troy L. (14 December 2021). "Every No. 1 song of the 1970s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Sharp, Ken (2009-01-02). "MAC DAVIS: Hook, Line and Sinker « American Songwriter". Americansongwriter.com. Retrieved 2020-10-01.