Today we’re sharing the cold hard facts on the velvet-voiced soft rocker Paul Davis, a guy who looked like your next-door neighbor and ordinary average guy... but who was extraordinary for a time when his classic 1978 hit I Go Crazy spent a record 40 weeks in the charts… In fact, he had 8 hits. But after his biggest-selling record in the early 80s, he wanted nothing to do with recording. It was so bad he ended his contract with his label and never recorded another album. He went MIA from the charts, preferring to write songs for other artists. But just as he was getting going he was shot in the stomach by a robber outside a Nashville hotel. He survived the ordeal, but would his music career survive? At this point, he seriously thought about packing it all in. These stories and more are coming up as we cover this hidden gem artist from the 70s and 80s on the Professor of Rock.
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Today we are looking to solve a music mystery. It’s twofold. For some, it’s who was the guy behind all these familiar hits from late 70s and early 80s radio and whatever happened to him? He had one of the biggest hits of the late 70s I Go Crazy that had the record at the time of the song that spent the most weeks in the charts and he followed that up with several hits everyone remembers… He’s one of those guys that you go Oh I remember that song. That’s WHO SANG IT? I’m talking about Soft Rocker Paul Davis Who scored big with I Go Crazy, Cool Night, and ’65 Love Affair.
He’s been called a yacht rocker, a soft rocker, and a balladeer. But what happened to him after his heyday in the 70s and 80s? Let’s find out. First of all, Paul Davis was born on April 21, 1948, in Meridian, Mississippi. From an early age, Davis showed a strong interest in music, particularly rock and R&B, which would later influence his signature blend of soft rock, pop, and blue-eyed soul. By the mid-1960s, he was performing in local bands like The Six Soul Survivors and The Endless Chain, honing his skills as a singer, keyboardist, and songwriter on the bar band circuit.
In 1968, Davis got his first big break when he was hired as a staff songwriter at Malaco Records in Jackson, Mississippi. Malaco was primarily an R&B and blues label and Davis contributed songs to various acts during his tenure there. It was there that he began honing his songwriting craft, blending country storytelling with the smooth melodies of Southern soul—a fusion that would later define his biggest hits. However, it quickly became clear that his real talent lay not just in writing for others, but in performing his own material as well. Fueled by his growing confidence as a singer, Davis began seeking opportunities to record his own music, a move that would soon change the course of his career.
Davis’s first brush with success came in 1970 when he recorded "Revolution in My Soul" under the band name The Reivers—a country-rock track that gained regional airplay.