On March 13, 1980, Willie Nelson’s “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys”, from soundtrack for The Electric Horseman movie, #1 on Country Chart.
“My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” was recorded by Waylon Jennings on the 1976 album Wanted! The Outlaws, and further popularized in 1980 by Willie Nelson as a single on the soundtrack to The Electric Horseman. “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” was written by Sharon Vaughn and Nelson’s version was his fifth number one on the country chart,