Mac Davis

Davis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Morton Downey died in Palm Beach, Florida of a stroke. Mac Davis played the title role in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies. Morton Downey was the father of television personality Morton Downey, Jr. He made his motion picture debut opposite Nick Nolte in the 1979 football film, North Dallas Forty and as a result, was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World Magazine. Downey was also a songwriter: his most successful numbers including "All I Need is Someone Like You", "California Skies", "In the Valley of the Roses", and "Now You're in My Arms", "Sweeten Up Your Smile", "That's How I Spell Ireland", "There's Nothing New", and "Wabash Moon". He was named the 1974 "Entertainer of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music. Starting in 1949, Morton Downey began appearing on television, and in the 1950s hosted the television show Star of the Family.

Davis recorded his own hits "I Believe In Music" and "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me." From 1974 to 1976 he had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. In the 1930s he recorded for ARC and Decca Records, the in the 1940s made records for Columbia. Davis also wrote the song "Watching Scotty Grow" that became a hit for Bobby Goldsboro. He was voted the USA's "Radio Singer of the Year" in 1932. As a songwriter, in the early 1970s, he wrote the hits In the Ghetto, Memories and Don't Cry Daddy for Elvis Presley. He also penned A Little Less Conversation for Presley's 1968 film, Live a Little, Love a Little that was re-released in 2002 in a remixed version. In 1930 he began making national radio broadcasts. During his early years in music, he lived in Atlanta, Georgia where he played in a rock & roll band. He also started making appearances in motion pictures in 1929.

Mac Davis (born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He toured London, Paris, Berlin, New York City, and Hollywood. In 1926 he had a hit in the show Palm Beach Nights. In 1925 he began 4 years of recording for Brunswick Records. Leviathan Orchestra.

He first recorded in 1923 for Edison Records under the pseudonym Morton James; the following year he recorded for Victor with the S.S. For a time in the 1920s, Tenor Downey sang with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Downey was nicknamed the Irish Nightingale. Morton Downey was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, the child of Irish immigrant parents.

Morton Downey (14 November 1901-October 25, 1985) was a singer popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.