Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me (album)

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Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis LP.jpg
Studio album by
Released1972
RecordedDecember 1971–March 1, 1972
Studio The Record Plant, Los Angeles; Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Genre Country, pop
Length34:29
Label Columbia
Producer Mac Davis
Rick Hall
Mac Davis chronology
I Believe in Music
(1971)
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
(1972)
Mac Davis
(1973)

Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me is the third album by singer-songwriter and actor Mac Davis, which was considered his breakthrough album released in 1972.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mac Davis, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Dream Me Home"3:05
2."The Lonesomest Lonesome"3:14
3."Everybody Loves A Love Song"3:05
4."Naughty Girl"2:39
5."Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife"3:00
6."Half And Half"2:57
7."Spread Your Love On Me"3:11
8."Whoever Finds This, I Love You"3:42
9."Poor Boy Boogie"3:10
10."Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"3:06
11."The Words (Don't Come Easy)"3:20

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)63 [1]

Personnel

MusiciansInstruments and VocalsTracks
Mac Davis electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, hambone, spoons, wobble board, beatboxing, harmonica, vocals All tracks
Ken Bell acoustic guitar All tracks
Travis Wammack acoustic guitar, picking bow, harmonica 9
Leo LeBlanc steel guitar
Bob Wray bass guitar all tracks
Clayton Ivey piano 3
Tim Hensenorgan, vibraphone
Morris "Tarp" Tarrant drums
Fred Proutycabasa, tom tom
Mickey Buckinspercussion
Charles Chalmersbacking vocals
Donna Rhodesbacking vocals
Sandra Rhodesbacking vocals
Jimmie Haskell string arranger

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References

  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 83. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.