Single:
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me entered the Australian singles chart* on 11 September 1972 and peaked at #2. It was #20 on the Top 100 of 1972.
Album:
The song is on Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me which entered the Australian albums chart* on 29 January 1973 and peaked at #63.
Songwriter:
Mac Davis
Producer:
Rick Hall
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
When Mac Davis’ producer, Rick Hall, asked him to write a “hook” song, Davis took it literally, coming up with the line “baby, don’t get hooked on me” and a melody to go with it. Hall loved it, so Davis finished writing the song that night and recorded it the next day at Hall’s Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In the ’60s, soul classics from the likes of Wilson Pickett and Etta James were recorded there.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/mac-davis/baby-dont-get-hooked-on-me
Lyrics:
Girl, you′re gettin’ that look in your eyes
And it′s startin’ to worry me
I ain’t ready for no family ties
Nobody′s gonna hurry me
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