Ed Bruce & Willie Nelson - The Last Cowboy Song
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2016
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William Edwin "Ed" Bruce, Jr. (born December 29, 1939) is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is known for penning the 1975 song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and recording the 1982 country number one hit "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had". He also co-starred in the television series Bret Maverick with James Garner during the 1981-82 season.
Bruce was born in Keiser, Arkansas and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1957, at the age of 17, he went to see Jack Clement, a recording engineer for Sun Records. Bruce caught the attention of Sun owner Sam Phillips, for whom he wrote and recorded "Rock Boppin' Baby" (as "Edwin Bruce"). In 1962, he wrote "Save Your Kisses" for pop star Tommy Roe and in 1963 he reached No. 109 on the Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart with his own recording of "See the Big Man Cry" (Wand 140). Charlie Louvin recorded "See the Big Man Cry" (Capitol 5369) in 1965; Louvin's version reached No. 7 on the Billboard "Country Singles" chart.
In the early 1960s, Bruce recorded for RCA and some smaller labels like Wand/Scepter, singing rockabilly music, as well as more pop-oriented material such as "See the Big Man Cry." However, he didn't achieve significant success as a vocalist during this period.
In 1966, he returned to RCA and recorded "Puzzles", "The Price I Pay to Stay" and "Lonesome Is Me". He still did not achieve great charting action. He made money doing voice-overs for television and radio commercials.[1] He scored his first charted single with "Walker's Woods" in 1967, and also charted with his version of The Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville." Both of these singles were minor hits. In 1969, Bruce signed with Monument Records, where he continued to have minor successes with "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" and "Song For Jenny". Meanwhile, he continued to write songs like "The Man That Turned My Mama On," which was a major hit for Tanya Tucker in 1974 and "Restless" for Crystal Gayle the same year. He signed with United Artists Records in 1973 and released several singles, but only one single in 1974 became a minor hit. He finally made the upper regions of the charts when he made the Top 20 on the country charts with his version of "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" in 1976.
In 1978, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" was recorded by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. It became a major hit, and put Bruce on an upward swing. Two more Top 40 hits followed for Bruce in 1976, and in 1977, he signed with Epic Records where he would score minor hits. In 1979, Tanya Tucker took Bruce's song "Texas (When I Die)" into the country Top 5.
In 1980, Bruce signed with MCA Records, where he would score his biggest successes. His early hits with MCA included "Diane", "The Last Cowboy Song", "When You Fall In Love (Everything's A Waltz)", "Evil Angel", and "Love's Found You And Me". His biggest hit, "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" went to number one on the country chart in 1982. This also was Bruce's first Top 10 as a singer after 15 years. He had other hit songs that made the Top 10 like "Ever, Never Lovin' You", "My First Taste of Texas", and "After All".
In 1984, he returned to RCA Records and scored a No. 3 hit with "You Turn Me On Like A Radio" in 1985. His last Top 10 single was "Nights" in 1986 and his last Top 40 single (and last chart single to date) was "Quietly Crazy" in 1987.
During this time, Bruce began to act and do commercials. One of his biggest acting roles was as the second lead on the television revival of 1957's Maverick, called Bret Maverick. Starring James Garner as a legendary western gambler, the series ran on NBC-TV during the 1981-82 season but was unexpectedly cancelled despite respectable ratings. Bruce played the irascibly surly town lawman who found himself reluctantly co-owning a saloon with Maverick, with whom he seemed to maintain a surreally adversarial relationship more or less throughout the entire season. Bruce also sang and wrote the theme song to the show, while Garner himself sang the same song over the end titles at the show's close, albeit while being relentlessly interrupted by network announcements about upcoming programming.
After the 1986 album entitled Night Things and a 1988 self-titled follow-up, Bruce made a conscious decision to cut back on his music to focus on his acting career, appearing in several made-for-TV films.[1] He hosted two shows in the late 1980s, Truckin' USA and American Sports Cavalcade[3] Bruce has also appeared in several theatrical releases, including Fire Down Below with Steven Seagal
Bruce's son, Trey Bruce, is a songwriter and record producer.[
Beautifully told...makes me think of my son Garrett that I gave birth too 100 years too late. He is a cowboy through n through. Keep riding my son, showing and being the best horse whisper you can, love mama.
My parents always tell me I was born 100 years late and that I belong in some ranch deep in the heart of Texas or heading cows as a cowboy through Oklahoma.
I lived the cowboy life and then they sent me to Vietnam to fight president johnsons war and I have never been the same I came home and I recovered from the physical wounds but I have other wounds that will never heal
Wow, I had forgotten that I wrote this about my son Garrett. From the time he was able to hold his head up and that was 31.5 years ago He was on his big Welch pony boo boo. He loved riding. He always told his father and me I'm either going to be a cowboy or a shoulder. I prayed it was a cowboy. By the time he graduated high school and put in 2 years at Southeastern University I remember him telling me he wasn't happy at school and wanted to go out west and work on a ranch. That has been 10 years now and I've never seen him as content, happy and so well adjusted. Do I miss him...EVERY SINGLE DAY. But he is doing what he loves and that's what makes this mom truly happy. Love you son. Mom
A version of this is on the feed at work. It reminds me of a newspaper headline I saw not many years after moving to where I am now.
A piece of living history had died. It turned out that this area of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico had had one roving cowboy left. He had a group of ranches he rode between that he had been going to since before the current owners of the ranches had been born. He was in his early 90s when he pulled up at a Clovis are ranch. They welcomed him with open arms as always and gave him a bunk, a stable for his horse and some tasks he could help out with. The next morning his bunk was empty. His horse was also gone. Riders were sent all over the area to try to find him. Early afternoon a rider saw a horse where there shouldn't be one. There was the old man. Rolled up in his bedroll facing East. The coroner said he died around sunrise. A fitting end for him. Put on the open range that was his home.
This song brings back the days when those good old Black ..White ..and Spanish cowboys rode together ..biting the dust behind slow moving herds from the Louisiana border to the Kansas prairie .. cowcamps ..full of life and tall tales ..when a fellow cowboy was more than a brother ..we need that feeling today ...God knows..
I am with you brother
Think is one of the most beautiful songs that I never heard untill about 1 year ago. Where have i been, and what have I been listening to. I grew up watching B&W cowboy movies. Thank you God, for this.
I am truly grateful.
Countrywaltz wonderfull song in memories for they men...love Ed Bruce and you Willie for that ...respect for Ed and thanks my love Willie...jeudi from Paris 2023.02.23...wigh my heartlove ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🙏🙏🙏
I like it that you like it all the way from Paris. I am in Arizona. Best wishes
What a legend Rip Bruce.
No new comment ...hear and I cry for this beauty country...😭😭😭❤️🙏🏻👍👍👍
Ed and Willie nostalgiques respects for they men cowboys 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ thanks for this magnifique interprétation....Wllie always velvet voice tenderness 😢 criying time remember with admiration ❤❤❤ my dear God bless you forever and have quietly sweetly happyness in your life with your merveilleuse family loving you so hard (2023/07/09) me l give you all love of my heart❤❤❤❤❤
Rip Ed
The last cowboy song so sad but so true....gone in a wink of an eye..
And thanks for this olds pictures memories of cow boys...Willie ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Beautiful song & equally beautiful voice of Ed & Willy … Such easy listening & love how they tell the story , not just sing , that’s a gift few have ….
Thanks also for this pictures really story for they ...love love and more ❤️❤️❤️✨️✨️✨️
Ed Bruce. This wonderful Singer and this wonderful Song. What a Treasur.
Nostalgique et superbe waltz for ces valeureux cavaliers ....héros of West américain....love Bruce and Willie😭😭😭😭😭💯🙏🏻🙏🙏🏻
ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRY SONG EVER !
I think we all day dream about being there, thanks to bruse we can
R,I.P ED BRUCE
Great tune! Probably won't hear anything like that again!
Well i suppose he says it in the title!
Exactly. Great tunee
Love me some ed Bruce music! Willie to!
They take me back to the day
1021/20 Still love listening to Ed Bruce.🥰💖
Due bellissime voci,per una canzone meravigliosa!😊😊😍😍😘😘🎶🎸🎸🎶💘💓💕💕💋💋💯💯🍀🍀
So beautiful song and singing!
Thanks for tuning in.
@@janhammer39 you're welcome. I really enjoy it
Thanks, Jan... I'll tell Will next time I see him. very well done.
Thanks Nelson. This is one of those memorable tunes which tells a bittersweet story.
All these Coyboy songs.....
Yes! thanks Jan.
Thanks Sonia for checking out The Hammer Works.
He stood shoulder to shoulder with travis in Texas and rode with a seven when Custer went down,and wrote to Custer saying you 🚬the ✌pipe with sitting bull and going against him you'll be a sitting bull
It's nice to see the likes of wild bill hickock holding some sheep horns and tom horn on horseback on this song
Thanks😢
Thanks for visiting the Hammer Works.
Got a few cowboys and horse thieves in the family. Here is my 2nd cousin Lee Caldwell on Flying Devil in 1914, I believe. (whoops...guess I can't paste a photo here. Well if you're interested google Lee Caldwell Flying Devil)
Love that photo Greg. Looks to me that horse was aptly named.
There is a thrilling story of Lee wining the 1919 Pendleton World Championship Bucking Horse title in a superb book Let 'Er Buck by Charles Wellington Furlong in 1921....with a broken arm no less. Those were the days when men were a bit tougher than today.
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