Murray, Davis, Rush Draw 3,000
by Irv Dean, The Post-Star, September 4, 1973
Three popular singers performed in concert Sunday evening before a sparse but appreciative crowd of 3,000 fans.
Folk singer Tom Rush, pop singer Anne Murray and country-pop singer Mac Davis performed separately, Rush with his guitar and Miss Murray and Davis with their own ensembles.
Rush, who led off the concert, sang some of his own works including his sing-along “Galvaston Flood” and a funny ode to Dear Abby.
And Mac Davis, known in the profession as “The Songpainter” for the numerous numbers he has written, regaled an audience largely composed of his fans. He sang his “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me,” “I Believe in Music,” “Watching Scotty Grow,” and “In the Ghetto.”
Davis interspersed his singing and guitar picking with some of his homespun humor and playing on the Jew’s harp and spoons.
Miss Murray emerged as the evening’s favorite, answering two curtain calls and murmuring graciously “You’ve made my summer” as the audience delivered a standing ovation.
She sang her recordings of “Snowbird,” “Hey, What About Me?” and “The Man from Galilee,” and several others including a moving rendition of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly.”
Wearing a pink and blue pantsuit, Miss Mutray ambled around the stage chatting with the audience between numbers and responding modestly to her warm reception.
Her songs were infectious, and there was a lot of off-stage singing.
Similarly, Davis inspired a good deal of clapping and singing in the audience and returned for a curtain call to lead a rousing version of his “I Believe in Music” to close a pleasant evening at Saratoga.
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