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Mac Davis

"In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years."

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"In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years."

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"Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around."
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"I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."
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"I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times."
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"I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat."
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"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways."
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"I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away."
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"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."
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"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood."
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"First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids."
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"One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written."
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