Country singer-songwriter and actor William Edwin Bruce Jr. (Ed Bruce) has died in Tennessee, his publicist confirmed. He was 81.
Bruce, best known for …
Country singer-songwriter and actor William Edwin Bruce Jr. (Ed Bruce) has died in Tennessee, his publicist confirmed. He was 81. Bruce, best known for co-writing “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” together with his wife Patsy Bruce in 1975, died from natural causes in his Clarksville home on Friday, his publicist confirmed to Fox News. A rendition of the hit song originally recorded by Bruce peaked the country music charts about three years later, spending four weeks at No.1 after Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings cut the song on their 1978 duet album. Bruce also earned a Grammy nomination that same year which nominated “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” as the best country music song of 1978. The country star was born in Keiser, Arkansas on Dec.29,1939, and moved to Memphis in Tennessee where he also grew up.
