From our Forgotten Hits Country Western Hit Music Historian, Buffalo Buell …

 

In 1978, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson recorded their duet of “Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” for their album “Waylon and Willie.”

 

This version became a Number One Country Song in March, 1978, and remained there for four weeks. It also won the 1979 Grammy Award for “Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.”  On Billboard’s Hot 100, it made a hard run for the Big Hit Rodeo before it was corralled at Number 42.

 

 

Then, interestingly enough, in 1996, 18 years later, Paula Cole released her three-time Grammy Award Nominated, Billboard Top Ten song, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?!”

 

 

I'm thinkin' the Mammas of Waylon and Willie's Day took their advice to heart as it was noticeable that there was hardly a lick of strapping young, 18-year-old cowboys in the days of Cole's song!

 

CB ( which stands for "Cowboy Boy!" )

 

Nicely done ...

 

But no matter how many times I tried to suppress it, I just couldn't resist running THIS tune from a few years after that ...