This trenchant social commentary still stands out more than 50 years later for its bold stand on racial inequality and inner-city poverty, and became Presley’s song most associated with Davis, reaching No. “They had asked for a song about looking back over the years, and oddly enough, I had to write it in one night,” Davis told Billboard in 2015. Maybe a little too frisky at times, as the chorus demands of “Hold your mouth and open up your heart and baby, satisfy me” have aged fairly poorly - but the rest of the song is still electric enough that it became a hit a second time around in 2002, when a much-synced Junkie XL remix returned it to the Hot 100.Ĭo-written with Strange specifically for Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special, this nostalgic, wistful ballad of romantic days gone by became Davis’s first major hit as a songwriter, reaching the Hot 100’s top 40. Mac Davis, Iconic Artist & Elvis Songwriter, Dies at 78Įlvis Presley, “A Little Less Conversation” (1968)Ī slice of southern-fried funk unlike quite anything he’d ever recorded before, Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation” married a slithering drum-and-bass groove with jagged guitars and some of The King’s friskiest lyrics, courtesy of Mac Davis and co-writer Billy Strange.
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