A Tribute to Mac Davis

[Genevieve]

Congrats Grace. Welcome Johanna.

[JoAnne]

Got my old laptop today!! YAY!!


FINISHED
A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: Nov 8-Dec 7, 2020
Read: 11

TASKS
1.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced. The Friendship List Susan Mallery 11/11/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.

2.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas. Texas The One You Can't Forget Roni Loren 11/14/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.

3.
🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. In a Holidaze Christina Lauren 11/28/20 P 15 ...bundled up in a down coat, thick socks, boots, and a blanket,...
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

4.
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). Searching for Beautiful Jennifer Probst 11/15/20
p 206 Gen battled tears, then realized Wolfe would hate her crying.
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

5.
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Carter Sincerely, Carter Whitney G. 11/10/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

6.
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. Gimme Some Sugar Molly Harper 11/18/20 p 131 ...pulled him into another kiss.
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show. Dirty Secret Emma Hart 11/19/20

8.
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9.
🎸 Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse. Unbridled Diana Palmer 11/26/20
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.

10.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery. The Library at the Edge of the World Felicity Hayes-McCoy 11/20/20
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. Catch Me Lisa Gardner 11/23/20 p 229 Around the fourth month of boxing, I happened to catch my reflection in the mirror.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. Maple Sugar Crush Beth Labonte 11/28/20 p 19 ...the stairs in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans.

[Genevieve]

Yay. Congrats JoAnne.

[Suzanne]

The Lost Challenges
A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 2/1/2022 - 2/28/2022

Progress: 10 out of 10

Duration: One month from your start date
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

TASKS

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. 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. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz - ***** - 2/23/2022 - 347 Pages
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.



2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. 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. 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.

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count:
Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner - *** - 2/1/2022 - 178 Pages
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.



3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. 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".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Runaway by Heather Graham - **** - 2/7/2022 - 355 Pages



4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard:
Color Me Murder by Krista Davis - **** - 2/6/2022 - 289 Pages



5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
Twisted by Emma Chase - **** - 2/2/2022 - 206 Pages - Both of them
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)



6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #):
Mother Land by Leah Franqui - ***** - 2/13/2022 - 384 Pages
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.



7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Stick Dog by Tom Watson - **** - 2/13/2022 - 189 Pages



8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - ***** - 2/28/2022 - 320 Pages
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.



9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series:
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman - ***** - 2/21/2022 - 358 Pages



10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #): "...wearing a pair of skinny black jeans that I'm a huge fan of." Page 47
Year Zero by Rob Reid - ***** - 2/14/2022 - 364 Pages -



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[Genevieve]

Welcome Suzeanne

[Suzanne]

Finished!

The Lost Challenges
A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 2/1/2022 - 2/28/2022

Progress: 10 out of 10

Duration: One month from your start date
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

TASKS

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. 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. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz - ***** - 2/23/2022 - 347 Pages
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.



2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. 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. 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.

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count:
Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner - *** - 2/1/2022 - 178 Pages
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.



3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. 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".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Runaway by Heather Graham - **** - 2/7/2022 - 355 Pages



4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard:
Color Me Murder by Krista Davis - **** - 2/6/2022 - 289 Pages



5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
Twisted by Emma Chase - **** - 2/2/2022 - 206 Pages - Both of them
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)



6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #):
Mother Land by Leah Franqui - ***** - 2/13/2022 - 384 Pages
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.



7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Stick Dog by Tom Watson - **** - 2/13/2022 - 189 Pages



8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - ***** - 2/28/2022 - 320 Pages
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.



9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series:
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman - ***** - 2/21/2022 - 358 Pages



10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #): "...wearing a pair of skinny black jeans that I'm a huge fan of." Page 47
Year Zero by Rob Reid - ***** - 2/14/2022 - 364 Pages -

[Genevieve]

Well Done Suzeanne.