Song Of The Day - Sunday, 1/2/2011

Published by Lois Lame, SALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Date:  1/2/2011
Post:  1,397

Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 February 13, 2002) was an influential American country music singer and musician.

A series of duet albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1978 crossover hit, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet and actor.

Along with Nelson, Waylon Jennings was also achieving success in country music in the early 1970s, and the pair were soon combined into a genre called outlaw country ("outlaw" because it did not conform to Nashville standards).

"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" is a country music song written by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce. It was made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, whose version was first released on their 1978 album Waylon & Willie. The song's lyrics advise mothers to raise their children as doctors or lawyers rather than cowboys, who seem to be "always alone."

The Waylon & Willie version peaked at No. 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.



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