Nine years ago I featured Mac Davis, who died last week, at Reelin’ in the Years 22.

I suppose, though, that the song he wrote that most people will recognise would be In the Ghetto which was a hit for Elvis Presley who also recorded Davis’s A Little Less Conversation and Don’t Cry Daddy.

It wasn’t just Elvis who had success with Davis songs. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition had a hit with his song Something’s Burning (see Reelin’ in the Years 173) as well as Everything a Man Could Ever Need, a hit for Glen Campbell.

I see from his Wiki page Davis also wrote Rock And Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) which was a hit in the UK for Kevin Johnson and I had as Reelin’ in the Years 32.

Here is Davis himself singing In the Ghetto.

Scott Mac Davis: January 21/1/1942 – 29/9/2020. So it goes.

Mac Davis is perhaps best known for writing In The Ghetto which Elvis made into a big hit.

Beginning To Feel The Pain was a song that I remembered fondly from the 70s though I never heard it for years afterwards. The opening lines and the refrain were what particularly stuck with me.

I couldn’t find the song on You Tube when I first delved into that Pandora’s Box. Someone’s put it up there now though.

In hindsight it tips over a bit into schmaltz with the strings towards the end.

Mac Davis: Beginning To Feel The Pain