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One of the highlights of my life was being one of those people in the audience who gave Mac a song title and he made up a song...I was 14 years old..My title was "Jumping Beans Boogie" and the song went like this....

"I went down south of the border
Guests of Charo and Cugie
I ate one too many red hot chili benas
now I'm doing the jumping beans boogie"

Mac Davis just filmed a cameo appearance in Toby Keith's upcoming movie "Beer For My Horses". He was great as a preacher. Movie should be out in Sept. 2008.

I loved the Mac Davis show and have wondered ever since what happened to him. Yes - his making up spur of the moment songs from words the audience gave him was a highlight. I'd forgotten about the knee slapping at the end of those songs.
Shows today just can't compare. What a talent. Am glad to know he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Obviously, others were impressed as well.

What I definitely remember about this show was Mac's backup singers, collectively known as Strut. I've since heard that one of the singers was none other than Dodie Stevens, better known for the 1959 hit song "Pink Shoelaces".

Someone earlier wrote "But He soon ruined his reputaion when he started sleeping with Gomer Piles wife"?
I don't think so. First, I assume you mean Jim Nabors, who played the role of Gomer Pyle. Second, Jim Nabors has never married. After Mac Davis and his wife Sarah divorced, she was married to Glen Campbell for several years. And, there was a rumor that changed depending where your heard or read it, that he was seeing the wife of either Bobby Russell or Bobby Goldsboro while she was separated from her husband, or that one of them was seeing Mac Davis' wife Sarah when she was separated from Mr. Davis; either way, there was no substance to the rumors.

I love Mac - Bring Mac back!

I'd love to have the Mac Davis Show DVDs in my collection. I happened to be in the audience in the episode with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, so I'd especially love to have that episode for a souveneer.

Mac is a talented entertainer and song writer. Bring back the old variety shows like Mac's for those of us who enjoy REAL talent!

I am trying to find a cassette titled "Somewhere In America" I cannot find it anywhere. I Want to purchase it again. I had a copy and moved now I can't find it. I have been a fan of Mac Davis ever since I was a little kid and watched his TV variety show. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this cassette or even a CD?

I just opened a message board for all Mac Davis Fans only. Please go to this address if you are interested:
MacDavisFans@groups.msn.com

Max Davis wrote a lot of good songs that were kind of funny like: Stop and smell my toes, the cow with green udders, Wisky frisky-hippity hop let's all go to the barber shop and many others. He could take a few words from the studio audience and make up a song right there. My dad used to say the people in the audience were paid "shills" sent there to make Mac look good! My dad also said that "Baby do't get hooked on me" was about statutory rape and lust. However, it was a great show-Mac Davis was such a wholesome and down to earth person. But He soon ruined his reputaion when he started sleeping with Gomer Piles wife.

Mac Davis was my life during most of the '70s and early '80s. The audience participation portion of his show is what made me a huge fan. It was then that I discovered his incredible songs and singing, and how incredibly good-looking, funny, and witty he was. He is the one who really introduced me to country music, and enlightened me to the fact that it wasn't all hicks and Hee Haw. His shows on DVD would be awesome. In the days before VCRs, I used to tape the audio of his shows only on my Panasonic tape recorder. Pathetic, isn't it?

I found the website CMT.com and on there I met other Mac Davis fans and five of us met and went to 2 of his recent shows, one in Lubbock Texas in April 2005, and one last November in Jackpot, Nevada. Please join us on CMT.com and we will keep you posted on where he is appearing. He is doing only limited shows and we have to search the internet to find them, but we were able to find those two, so we keep looking. Also, please go to TV Shows on DVD . com and you will be able to vote to have his 1970's TV shows put out on DVD. This has been my pet project for the last couple years. But it takes lots of votes, so please have your friends and family vote also. We have only 135 votes so far and it takes thousands. I have also written to his manager and was told they are looking into doing this also. We would love to find all the Mac fans we can and encourage him to come back to us. He is still a great performer and we still love him dearly.

One of the impromptu songs he made up:

Pink polka dots on my nose
And on my chin a freckle,
Won't make my Daddy mad
Like a hickey on my neck will.

My cousin and I thought that was HILARIOUS and wrote it in each other's yearbooks. . .

Didn't the Rhinestone Cowboy end up with Mac's wife around this time? Seemed that we never heard much from Mac after that point.

Maybe wherever Mac is, seeing those hideous Glen Campbell mug shots on the internet makes him feel a little better.....

The BEST part was when someone from the audience would give him a topic and he'd make up a song on the spot. Anybody else member that? I only remember one song, about bleu cheese that has stuck with me, yes, decades, because I was impressed (ok, ok, I was 8) that he could make up such a funny song on the spot.

Now that I'm old and jaded, I guess he could have figured it out in advance, but wasn't it taped "live" back then?

I loved this show! I still love Mac's
songs. I wish I could get a copy of all his shows. I had a big crush on him.
Mac's show was a lot better than most of the shows I see on TV today. Oh- did I say that?! (I sound like my Mom)
Mac created good music. Listening to his music takes me back to my high school days, and my best friends.
He wasn't country to me,like Hee Haw, Mac was a friend.

I wish I knew where he went. After the seventies he seemed to drop off the earth.