Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me

"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 No.1 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. Davis wrote it when the record company demanded he write a tune with a "hook".^[2]

The song was also a modest country hit concurrent with its pop success, reaching No.26 shortly after the peak of that success in the pop realm. It was featured on an episode of The Muppet Show that Mac Davis was hosting.

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Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position
Australian Go-Set Chart	1
Australian KMR	2
Canadian RPM Top Singles^[3]	2
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks^[4]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks^[5]	1
Ireland (IRMA)^[6]	19
New Zealand (Listener)^[7]	3
UK^[8]	29
US Billboard Hot 100	1
US Billboard Easy Listening ^[9]	1
US Billboard Hot Country Singles ^[10]	26

Year-end charts

Chart (1972)	Rank
Australia KMR	25
Canada RPM Top Singles	9
US Billboard Hot 100^[11]	8
US Cash Box Top 100^[12]	17

Covers

Blaine Larsen, on his 2006 album Rockin' You Tonight
Liza Minnelli, on her 1973 album The Singer
Rascal Flatts, used for their 2009 compilation The Vault

References

^ Smith, Troy L. (14 December 2021). "Every No. 1 song of the 1970s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ Sharp, Ken (2009-01-02). "MAC DAVIS: Hook, Line and Sinker « American Songwriter". Americansongwriter.com. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
^ "RPM Top Singles for October 14, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
^ "RPM Adult Contemporary for October 7, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
^ "RPM Country Tracks for October 21, 1972". RPM. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
^ UK Official Charts, 11 April 1972
^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 72.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 99.
^ "Musicoutfitters.com". Archived from the original on 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1972". Archived from the original on 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2017-01-15.

External links

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v t e Mac Davis
Studio albums	Song Painter I Believe in Music Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me Stop and Smell the Roses All the Love in the World
Singles	"I Believe in Music" "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" "One Hell of a Woman" "Stop and Smell the Roses" "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" "It's Hard to Be Humble" "I Never Made Love (Till I Made It with You)"
Related articles	Discography

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