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Paul Davis brought a deft touch of blue-eyed soul to pop and country music in the 1970s and '80s as an influential songwriter and a recording artist. He began his career in local Mississippi rock bands such as Six Soul Survivors and the Endless Chain in the mid-1960s.

In 1968, he became a staff songwriter in Jackson, Mississippi, at Malaco Records. Several of the label's blues and R&B artists recorded his works.

He was discovered by Ilene Berns, the widow of noted producer-songwriter Bert Berns.

She signed him to Bang Records as an artist in 1969.

Between 1970 and 1982, Davis had a string of hits as a singer-songwriter, faring particularly well on the adult contemporary charts with classics such as "Ride 'Em Cowboy," "I Go Crazy," "Sweet Life" and "Do Right." "I Go Crazy" was particularly noteworthy in that it remained on the pop-music charts for 40 consecutive weeks, which is more than double the time that most records spent on the hit parade during that era.

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