Mac Davis, a versatile country and pop songwriter and performer, passed away on 29 September 2020 at the age of 78 from complications following heart surgery. Though not a household name, Davis's influence on popular music was substantial, having penned multiple hit songs for Elvis Presley and enjoyed a successful solo recording career spanning several decades.

Davis wrote four Elvis Presley classics during the 1960s, including "Memories," "Don't Cry Daddy," and "In The Ghetto," all of which reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Beyond songwriting, Davis achieved commercial success as a recording artist in his own right, with notable hits including "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" (1972) and "Stop and Smell the Roses" (1974), and notably hosted his own NBC variety show, The Mac Davis Show, which ran from 1974 to 1976.