Music Deaths: Ed Bruce, Wrote the Song 'Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys'

ED BRUCE, 81

Died 8 January 2021

Country singer/songwriter and actor.

Cowrote the song  "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" with his then-wife Patsy Bruce and had a Top 20 Country song with it, but Willie and Waylon took it to #1 when they recorded it.  One of the great country songs of all time.  Kind of covers it all, doesn't it?

Also wrote the #4 song "The Man That Turned My Mama On" for Tanya Tucker.

Also did voice overs for radio and TV.  Was a costar on the reboot of the old "Maverick" TV series "Brett Maverick."