Waylon & Willie "MAMMA'S DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS"

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MAMMA'S,  DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS !
My father made gold & platinum awards for Music Row,  New York & LA for 50 years.  He made this for RCA when Waylon & Willie took the charts by storm after both had long runs with #1's back-to-back.  "Waylon & Willie"  stayed on the charts for a whopping 126 weeks.  My dad knew Waylon & Willie well.   In fact they both spent many a night at his Madison, TN workshop hanging out.  Pop was a character and a legend on Music Row for 50 years and knew EVERY country star...those who made it and those who wanted to but didn't.  He helped many do it and tried to help many who couldn't make the cut.   When he passed in 2016,  I inherited his estate which included three truckloads of memorabilia far beyond his overproduction of those five decades of gold & platinum record awards.
Waylon & Willie
is a duet album
by Waylon Jennings
and Willie Nelson
released on RCA
in 1978. It stayed at #1 album on the country album charts for ten weeks and would spend a total of 126 weeks on the country charts.
At the dawn of 1978, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson had attained country music superstar status. Jennings had scored three #1 country albums in a row, and his most recent, 1977's  Ol' Waylon
, included what turned out to be the biggest hit single of his career, "Luckenback, Texas, Back to the Basics of Love
."  Nelson, who had taken a verse on the Jennings single, had enjoyed blockbuster success of his own with the release of his 1975 West Texas epic
Red Headed Stranger
and would again with
Stardust
in 1978. After so many one-off collaborations and tours, it was inevitable that the pair would record an album of duets, although the fact that they were on different record labels (Waylon with RCA and Willie with CBS
) made matters difficult. According to RCA executive Jerry Bradley
, Jennings initially attempted to overdub his vocals on a few archival Nelson recordings (Nelson had recorded for RCA from 1965 to 1972) but struggled to do so; instead, he approached CBS Records in Nashville
with the idea of recording an album of new duets.
In a surprising show of cooperation, CBS agreed. Jennings and Nelson had achieved great success previously, winning the CMA
award for Duo of the Year for their song "Good Hearted Woman
" in 1976 and were the marquee attractions on the
Wanted! The Outlaws
compilation, country music's first million selling album
"M
amma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
," written by Ed and Patsy Bruce, peaked at # 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks atop the country music charts. It also reached 42 on the
Billboard Hot 100
, and won the 1979 G
rammy Award Performance for Best Group Performance by a Duo Vocal
.  It was quite simply the perfect song for the pair to sing and propelled the album to the top of the
Billboard
country albums chart. The Waylon-sung "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" also shot to #1.
A GLOSSY 8 1/2  X 11  SLICK HISTORY OF THIS AWARD IS INCLUDED WITH THE AWARD AND A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY.   If you would like the COA personalized with your or another name,  please send me a message with the specific name and exact spelling of the name.