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Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me/Stop and Smell the Roses: A Golden Classics Edition

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I have loved Mac Davis music for years! He was such a great entertainer( Right up there with Elvis)Baby Don`t Get Hooked On Me was my all time favorite album. I would love to see him entertaining again. Mac, we miss you. Your music had such warmth & love in it from your heart. We felt like we knew you. Let us hear from you. Hope your life is happy & full !

"Poor boy don't need 'lectronics to make no Rock 'n Roll...Poor boy got Boogie-Woogie born right in his soul..." and the lyrics (from "Poor Boy Boogie") goes to tell us that you'd only need sticks, spoons and friends to make good music. This was in the early 70's...when most of us young folks were listening to heavy electrified UNDERGROUND!...But (believe it or not) Mac Davis could, at that time, divert our attention from Henrix and Grand Funk Railroad to his kind of music....Good deep voice, catchy tunes and the lyrics made us feel that, well, we belonged! With the exemption of "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" which is everybody's favourite...nice melody....but the words can be dangerous....just don't sing it to your sweetheart....! Get this CD! These songs will last for many years to come...good to listen to while drivin' too!

Mac is a wonderful entertainer as well as writer. He brings you into his life with each word. I felt as if I was there during relationships, breakups and the joy of his children. He has no idea how much joy he has given to us as we listen and laugh and cry with him.

I have been a Mac Davis fan since I saw him in a country musical in the early seventies. I have collected all but ONE of his albums. He is a wonderful entertainer as well as writer. I can relate to his songs very well.

This cd would've been perfect if The Collectables lable woul've included "Good Friends And Fireplaces which was on the original Stop and smell the roses album and also on the first edition of this cd Columbia label reissued in 1990 which is now out of print. Good Friends and Fireplaces was one of the best songs from the album besides one hell of a woman,the title song,and A poor man's gold. Good friends and fireplaces should've been included on this compilation and only give this 3 stars for the companies negligence to do so.

One of the best performers ever. A note for the person who wondered why "Convoy and Rhinestone Cowboy" are missing from the album. Convoy was done by C.W. McCall, and Rhinestone Cowboy was done by Glen Campbell. They shouldn't be on this one!

Reminds me of the good old days when my kids were growing up. Great great great!

MAC DAVIS-BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME/STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES: This "two-fer" CD plus bonus tracks combines a pair of the Lubbock, Texas songwriter/singer's best known albums; the title tracks of each represent two of his biggest hits. Amounting to a better retrospective than his official "Greatest Hits", the four tacked-on cuts alone include the smug tongue-in-cheek singalong IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE, country charter TEXAS IN MY REAR VIEW MIRROR, and the autobiographical ROCK N' ROLL I GAVE YOU ALL THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. All of these fine "Lost 45s" are nearly impossible to find elsewhere nowadays. Among the twenty other songs here, you get the number one anti-commitment classic BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME, the seductive delights NAUGHTY GIRL and ONE HELL OF A WOMAN, and the gospel-colored mini-anthem STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES. All make for guilty pleasure listening, even if there are sometimes long stretches of audio Nutri Sweet in between. Davis knew how to pen a good song; Kenny Rogers, Elvis, and Gallery all did fine by his compositions SOMETHIN'S BURNIN', IN THE GHETTO, and I BELIEVE IN MUSIC respectively. I suggest you do what I did---burn your own customized anthology from the dozen or so real picks here, and leave the pablum to the elevators and dentist offices.

RATING: FOUR HOOKS

I've been looking for "Stop and Smell the Roses" ever since my cassette tape bit the dust 3 years ago. All the songs I grew up to in a better quality. I've even tried to find MP3 downloads for these songs and couldn't! I'm so relieved I finally got what I've been searching so long for.

Great music. But it is missing one of the songs that I was to understand to be on the albums.