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(Redirected from Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me) 1972 single by Mac Davis
"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
Side A of the original US single
Single by Mac Davis
from the album Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
B-side"Poem for My Little Lady"
ReleasedJuly 1972 (US)
RecordedMarch 1, 1972
StudioFAME Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
GenreCountry pop
Length3:06
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Mac Davis
Producer(s)Rick Hall
Mac Davis singles chronology
"Beginning to Feel the Pain"
(1971) 		"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
(1972) 		"Everybody Loves a Love Song"
(1972)

"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".

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.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1972) Peak
position
Australian Go-Set Chart 1
Australian KMR 2
Canadian RPM Top Singles 2
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Ireland (IRMA) 19
New Zealand (Listener) 3
UK 29
US Billboard Hot 100 1
US Billboard Easy Listening 1
US Billboard Hot Country Singles 26

Year-end charts

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

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) Gold 1,000,000

Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Covers

References

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  8. UK Official Charts, 11 April 1972
  9. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 72.
  10. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 99.
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External links

Mac Davis
Studio albums
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