(Hump Head) 63 Tracks
1970/80s
Release Date: 7 Sept
2018
Label: Humphead Hump 222
Format: Boxset
BARCODE: 5060001276656
Ed
Bruce is one of the most authoritative balladeers in country music in a career
that has spanned more than 50 years. He is probably best-known for penning
"Mamma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys", a massive hit
for Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson and something of an Outlaw Movement
anthem.
There's no doubt that Ed Bruce is a brilliant
singer, a great guitarist and a writer of powerful songs. With his rugged build
he looks like a real cowboy. In his denim shirt and Levis, and his Stetson. His
country music is rootsy, genuine, real and highly distinctive He deserves to be
regarded as a true country icon along with Willie, Waylon, Merle, Buck, Johnny
and Marty.
“Amazing 63-track CD compilation” – UKCountryRadio.com
“Playing on The
Saturday Country Music Goldmine…..Excellent” - Peter
Fairhead UKCountryRadio.com
“It needs to be in your collection it you’re
a TRUE country music fan” - Brian Clough
The American Connection Album Of The Week
“With Christmas coming
it would make a perfect present” - Keith Greentree BBC
Radio Norfolk
“Really great” – Craig Parry The Moonshine Experience Dapper FM
“A beautiful album…
the pinnacle, 60 tracks on 3-CDs, you could listen to him
for hours, inners written by Alan Cackett” – Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Ed Bruce - Girls, Women
& Ladies - The Universal Recordings (3-CD) Medium 1
Mammas
don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys/ Working Man's Prayer / You’re The Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had/
My First Taste Of Texas/ The Last Cowboy Song/ Ever, Never Lovin You/ Loves
Found You And Me/ The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again/ The Outlaw And The Stranger/
No Regrets/ Evil Angel/ I'll Be There To Catch You/ She Never Could Dance/ If It was Easy/ It Just Makes Me Want
You More/ I Think I'm In Love/ In Mexico/ Theme From Bret Maverick/ You’re Not
Leavin Here Tonight/ Cup Of Conversation/ Thing Called Love
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Ed Bruce - Girls, Women
& Ladies - The Universal Recordings (3-CD) Medium 2
Diane/
Tell Em I’ve Gone Crazy/ Neon Fool/ If I Just Knew What To Say/ I Take The Chance/ Somebody's Crying/ I Still
Wish The Very Best For You/ You've Got
Her Eyes/ Memories Can't Stand To Be Alone/ For Old Time’s Sake/ Streets Of
Laredo/ The Devil Inside/ Easy Temptations/ Someone
who Would Care/ Girls, Women and Ladies/ (When you Fall in Love) Everything’s A
Waltz/ After All/ It Would Take A Fool/ Just
Along for The Ride/ One More Shot Of OLd Back Home/ Babe In Arms
Ed Bruce - Girls, Women & Ladies - The Universal Recordings (3-CD) Medium 3
When
Wide Open Spaces Are Cowboys Are Gone/ For Loves Own Sake/ July, You’re A Woman/
Blue Umbrella/ It's All In Your Mind/ The Songwriter (I Write It Down)/ Birds
Of Paradise/ Thirty-Nine And Holding/ Straight Shooter/ The Migrant/ Love Ain't
Something I Can Do Alone/ It's The Lovers (Who Give Love A Bad Name)/ Your
Jukebox Could Use A Few More Sad Songs/ Hundred Dollar Lady/ Sleep All Mornin/ The
Last Thing She Said/ If She Just Helps Me Get Over You/ Lucky Arms/ Mose Rankin/
Red Doggin' Again/ Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To be Cowboys
For
Song credits, chart success and Album release info on www.gene-watson.com
1974:
Album: "Ed Bruce" | Label:
United Artists
Single:
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"
Single:
"The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again"
1977:
Album: "The Tennessean" | Label:
CBS
Single:
"Texas When I Die"
Single:
"Star Studded Nights"
1978:
Album: "Cowboys and Dreamers"
| Label: Epic
Single:
"Angeline"
Single:
"The Man That Turned My Mama On"
1980:
Album: "Ed Bruce" | Label:
MCA
Single:
"Diane"
Single:
"Girls, Women and Ladies"
Single:
"The Last Cowboy Song"
1981:
Album: "One To One" | Label:
MCA
Single:
"When You Fall In Love Everything's A Waltz"
Single:
"You're The Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" (#1)
Single:
"Love's Found You And Me"
Single:
"Evil Angel"
1982:
Album: "I Write It Down" |
Label: MCA
Single:
"My First Taste Of Texas"
Single:
"Ever Never Lovin' You"
1983:
Album: "You're Not Leaving Here
Tonight" | Label: MCA
Single:
"If It Was Easy"
Single:
"After All"
Single:
"You're Not Leaving Here Tonight"
1984:
Album: "Tell 'Em I've Gone Crazy"
| Label: MCA
Single:
"Tell 'Em I've Gone Crazy"
1984:
Album: "Homecoming" | Label:
RCA
Single:
"You Turn Me On Like A Radio"
Single:
"If It Ain't Love"
Single:
"When Giving Up Was Easy"
1986:
Album: "Night Things" | Label:
RCA
Single:
"Nights"
Single:
"Down The Hall"
ABOUT ED BRUCE
In
the late '70s, it was just about impossible to avoid Ed Bruce.
His
composition, Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, was not
only a #1 hit for Waylon 'n' Willie,
but an era-defining song, and his records for MCA were charting. If you turned
off the stereo, his voice was on radio and TV selling anything and everything
from Hungry Jack Biscuits to Tennessee tourism. He even briefly starred as
James Garner's sidekick in the 1982 revival of Maverick. On his MCA albums and
in his television and movie appearances, Ed had the grizzled look of the
Marlboro Man nearing retirement, but he didn't always look that way. In 1957,
Ed Bruce was Edwin Bruce, a fresh-faced seventeen-year-old rockabilly on Sun
Records.
William
Edwin Bruce, Jr. was born in Keiser, Arkansas on December 29, 1939. His family moved to Memphis when Ed was around
one year old, and his father became a car salesman. The Bruces lived on South
Lauderdale just across the street from Elvis's first manager, Bob Neal. Aside
from managing Elvis and Johnny Cash, Neal was a dee-jay who hosted a kiddies
show as Uncle Piggly.
Ed
married for the first time in Memphis. His son by that marriage, Trey Bruce, became a successful country
songwriter and producer. Ed met his second wife, Patsy, during his first year in Nashville when they both lived in
the same apartment building. They married in October 1964, and by the time they
returned to Nashville they had a one-year-old daughter, Ginny. Later, Patsy took
over Ed's management.
Back
on RCA, Ed cut the Southern gothic
Walker's Woods and finally had a hit under his own name. He paid the bills
working with the Marijohn Wilkin Singers on WSM-TV and on the 'Bobby Lord
Show.' He did background vocals on commercials, and, as of July 1969, he joined
Pete Sayers on WSM-TV's 'Morning Show.' A year or two later, Ed and Patsy
bought a restaurant in the Biltmore Hotel on Nashville’s Eighth Avenue.
Commercials were Ed's mainstay for years, though. He sang and narrated spots
for over one hundred sponsors
The
RCA deal was followed by a stint with Monument
and then a four-year lay-off from recording. When Ed came back it was with United Artists, Epic and then MCA.
Waylon 'n' Willie hit #1 with his Urban Cowboy anthem Mammas, Don't Let Your
Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, and in 1981 he finally had his own first #1 hit
as a singer with You're The Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had. In 1984, Ed
quit MCA and went back to RCA for the second time, or third if you count the
one-off single in 1961.
Ed
and Patsy divorced. The hits tailed off. But Ed kept working. He was last seen
in the 2009 Johnny Depp-Christian Bale movie Public Enemies and in the 2010
Gwyneth Paltrow movie Country Strong.
Ed Bruce – At Last, Getting the
Breaks
First published in Country Music People, January 1982
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