Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me

"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
Single by Mac Davis
from the album Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
B-side "Your Side of the Bed"
Released July 1972 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded March 1, 1972
Genre Rock, soft rock, country
Length 3:06
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Mac Davis
Producer(s) Mac Davis
Mac Davis singles chronology
"Beginning to Feel the Pain"
(1971)		 "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
(1972)		 "Everybody Loves a Love Song"
(1972)

"Beginning to Feel the Pain"
(1971)		 "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
(1972)		 "Everybody Loves a Love Song"
(1972)

"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972. He wrote the song when the record company demanded he write a tune with a "hook".[1]

The song was also a modest country hit concurrent with its pop success, reaching number 26 shortly after the peak of its pop success. The "Nashville Edition" provided backing vocals. The song was featured on an episode of The Muppet Show that Mac Davis was hosting.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1972) Peak
position
Australian Go-Set Chart 1
Australian KMR 2
Canadian RPM Top Singles[2] 2
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks[3] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[4] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 19
New Zealand (Listener)[6] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 1
US Billboard Easy Listening [7] 1
US Billboard Hot Country Singles [8] 26

Year-end charts

Chart (1972) Rank
Australia KMR 25
Canada RPM Top Singles 9
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 8
US Cash Box Top 100[10] 17

Covers

References

  1. ↑ Sharp, Ken (2009-01-02). "MAC DAVIS: Hook, Line and Sinker « American Songwriter". Americansongwriter.com. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  2. ↑ "RPM Top Singles for October 14, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "RPM Adult Contemporary for October 7, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  4. ↑ "RPM Country Tracks for October 21, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 72.
  8. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 99.
  9. ↑ Musicoutfitters.com
  10. ↑ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1972YESP.html


Preceded by
"Black and White" by Three Dog Night		 Billboard Hot 100 number one single
September 23, 1972 (three weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Ben" by Michael Jackson
Preceded by
"The Guitar Man" by Bread		 Billboard Easy Listening Singles number-one single
September 16, 1972 (three weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Black and White" by Three Dog Night
Preceded by
"I Ain't Never" by Mel Tillis		 RPM Country Tracks number one single
October 21, 1972 (one week) 		Succeeded by
"Funny Face" by Donna Fargo
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