Ed Bruce
About the artist
Ed Bruce (born William Edwin Bruce Jr. on 29 December 1939; died 8 January 2021) was an American country music songwriter, singer and actor. He is remembered for writing 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.
Top songs
- Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys
- Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- When I Die, Just Let Me Go To Texas
- My First Taste of Texas
- You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- The Last Cowboy Song
- Mamma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- This Old Hat
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- Girls, Women & Ladies
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies G
- The Tracks You Left On Me
- Star-Studded Nights
- Rock Boppin' Baby
- There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
- Am I Gonna Have To Burn Atlanta Down
- Girls, Women, and Ladies
- After All
- When You Fall in Love Everything's a Waltz
- Old Wore Out Cowboy
- How Do You Do That?
- Angeline
- Homecoming 1945
- You Turn Me On (Like a Radio)
- The Bartender (It's All On the Jukebox)
- Sweet Woman
- Nights
- Man Made Of Glass
- I've Not Forgot Marie
- Changed
- Why Can't I Come Home
- Truth Is I'm A Liar
- Love Somebody To Death
- King Of Fools
- The Greatest Hit
- Everything's a Waltz
- Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up
- Girls, Women and Ladies
- Ever, Never Loving You
- He Lives
- I Can't Seem To Get The Hang Of Telling Her Goodbye
- One
- Never Take Candy From A Stranger
- In the Garden
- Walker's Woods
- He Brings Your Memory Back Again
- The Lord's Prayer
- The Man That Turned My Mama On
- (When You Fall in Love) Everything's a Waltz
- I Really Didn't Have A Thing To Do Today
- Texas When I Die
- Ever, Never Lovin' You
- Diane
- I Know Better
- Shadows of Her Mind
- The Wedding Dress
- The Feel of Bein' Gone
- If It Was Easy
- For My Good And To Your Glory
- The Greatest Love Song
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboy
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - (E.& P.Bruce)
- Kentucky Boy, California Man
- There's a Hand
- Evil Angel
- King Of The Road
- Love's Found You and Me
- Puzzles
- Growing Up
- Miracle Express
- My Baby Don't Need No Polish To Shine
- Did He Say It Better Than Me?
- Ninety Seven More to Go
- Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- The Family
- Give My Old Memory A Call
- I'm Gonna Have A Party
- Tell 'Em I've Gone Crazy
- The Price I Pay To Stay
- Cup of Conversation
- When a Man Becomes a Man
- Lonesome Is Me
- If I Could Just Go Home
- By Route of New Orleans
- Her Sweet Love and the Baby
- Theme From Bret Maverick
- Baby That's Good
- Song for Ginny
- You're Not Leavin' Here Tonight
- Quietly crazy
- A Thing Called Love
- I'm Getting Better
- If Only I Had Been There
- More Than Yesterday
- The Migrant
- See The Big Man Cry
- The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again
- Mamma Don't Let Your Babies Gr
- Tougher Than Nails
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