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The favorite son of Lubbock, Texas got his start in the music business working for Nancy Sinatra as a staff songwriter and musician in 1970, he moved to Columbia Records under the aegis of producer Jerry Fuller where he recorded the concept album Song Painter. (Helen Reddy, who also passed away yesterday at the same age as Davis, also recorded it.) But the uplifting anthem always belonged to its author, and it became his signature song - no small feat when his discography also includes the chart-topping "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" and a quartet of Elvis Presley standards: "Memories," "In the Ghetto," "Don't Cry, Daddy," and "A Little Less Conversation." Davis, who died yesterday at the age of 78, recorded "I Believe in Music" on his second Columbia album in 1970, and the group Gallery took it up the charts in 1972. On one of his most famous compositions, Scott "Mac" Davis sang, "I could just sit around making music all day long/As long as I'm making my music, ain't gonna do nobody no harm/And who knows, maybe I'll come up with a song." The singer-songwriter-actor never had difficulty coming up with a song, including that memorable one.