This Week in Texas History
Deciding the time had come to sing his own songs, Mac Davis recorded “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” on Mar.
1, 1972.
Born in Lubbock, Texas during the second year of World War II, Davis grew up in the “Hub City” of the South Plains with his parents and a sister, all squeezed into an efficiency apartment in a complex his contractor father built and owned. Of the family patriarch the son would only say…