Raven releases the most comprehensive multi-label Best Of CD collection chronicling the career of one of American's most popular singer / songwriters of the 1970's and 1980's - Mac Davis.
'A Little More Action Please 1970-1985' boasts every Top 40 Billboard Country and Pop hit single that the Texas-born Davis issued between 1970 and 1985. This multi-label compilation covers his best recordings for Columbia, Casablanca and MCA. Davis was a masterful song writing and his incredible run of solo hits included the US no.1 'Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me', 'One Hell Of A Woman', 'Stop And Smell The Roses', 'Rock 'n' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)', 'It's Hard To Be Humble', 'Let's Keep It That Way', 'Texas In My Rear View Mirror', 'Hooked On Music' and 'I Never Made Love (Till I Made Love With You)'.
They're all here - and more, including his own, definitive versions of the classics 'In The Ghetto' and 'A Little Less Conversation' (both recorded by Elvis Presley) and 'I Believe In Music'. With superb audio quality and detailed notes this entertaining CD is a must for fans of classic singer / songwriter country-pop. (propermusic.com)
Mac Davis - A Little More Action Please- The Anthology 1970-1985 (Raven Records 2013)
- In the Ghetto
- Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham
- Memories
- Once You Get Used to It
- Whoever Finds This, I Love You
- A Little Less Conversation
- I Believe in Music
- Watching Scotty Grow
- Something's Burning
- Yesterday and You
- Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
- Poor Boy Boogie
- Dream Me Home
- One Hell of a Woman
- Stop and Smell the Roses
- Lucas Was a Redneck
- Rock N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)
- It's Hard to Be Humble
- Let's Keep It That Way
- Texas in My Rear View Mirror
- Hooked on Music
- You're My Bestest Friend
- I Never Made Love (Till I Made Love with You)