Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and " Memories", which were recorded by Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, B. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. Highway 84) in Davis's hometown of Lubbock.ĭavis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Mac Davis Lane intersects Avenue Q ( U.S. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo.
I joined Golden Gloves, but didn't do good even in my division." Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. "I was 5 feet, 9 inches, and weighed 125 pounds. Oh, man, I got beat up so much while I was growing up in Lubbock," Davis said in a March 2, 2008, interview with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper. "In those days, it was all about football, rodeo, and fistfights. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn." Though Davis was physically small, he had a penchant for getting into fistfights. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. That left that texas teenybopper's nailprints in my arm So I bought myself a guitar and I wrote me a lady's song But I'd change the Name to fit my latest flame And that sucker never came out wrong I'd sit back and sing it soft and low Watch'm as it slowly turned them, on I'd turn 'em on I been Hooked on Music Hooked on music from that moment on.Davis was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. heh heh heh All give me some……………… Well I finially got some tickets to see Elvis Live and hot My girl friend almost jumped my bones going back to the parking lot I knew that it was not my great physique, good looks and charm. I'm stealing fancy hubcaps off them coyboys' pickup trucks Fender skirts and mud flaps anything to make a buck I'll sell'em right back to em out behind the rodeo Just to make a little money to take my little honey to a rock and roll show Well I hung around that skating rink where buddy Holly played I could not believe one man could have such fun and still get payed When I heard the local DJ playing, That 'll be the Day It turned me on, said turned me on I been Hooked on Music Hooked on music from that moment on.