From someone that grew up in the 70-80s... in a small country town, i kinda think we are in the same boat. May not be my cup of tea but there are songs and artists that will get your attention. I grew up on 50s and 60s country and rockabilly... After being in the military for 20 years, my eyes opened a lot and listen to whatever i feel like at the time.
I loved the song back in the 70’s and still love it today. This is definitely middle America or rural America music. Most of us had CB’s back in the 70’s even though we weren’t truckers but they were cool because you could talk to everyone and you got to give yourself a CB handle(name like Rubber Duck). It usually had something to do with your job or personality or what you looked like. My dads name was Donald and he was able to do the Donald Duck voice so my dads handle was the Duck/Ducker. My uncles were Technician and Corn Cracker because that’s what they did for a living. My one uncle worked as a technician at a Power Plant and my other uncle worked at a corn plant named A. E. Staleys in Decatur Illinois where they cracked corn open and used every aspect of the corn. We had a good friend who’s handle was Rainbow Glass as he had a glass cutting business in town. It was so much fun being on the CB’s as you were traveling up and down the roads and highways in the 70’s. Just listening in to the truckers chatter was fun too. Great times!❤
For those who don't know: Flag Town = Flagstaff, AZ; Shaky Town = Los Angeles, CA; Tulsa Town = Tulsa, OK; Swindle Sheets = Truck driver logs (driving records); Chi Town = Chicago; Chicken Coops = Weigh Station; Bear = Law Enforcement.
This really brings back memories. Before the days of cell phones, we had CBs. It was such a new notion, to be able to drive down the highway and actually talk to people in other cars. I remember one summer when my kids were young, we took a vacation through the western US. There were several families in 4 cars. Eveyone, even the kids had cB “handles” and could use the equipment. And in the midst of the CB craze came this song, “ convoy!” Great times.
I wouldn't consider this a "country song" so much as a top 40 song (they call it a "novelty song"). It was played over and over on the radio, but only because the movie "Convoy" starring Kris Kristofferson was really popular (the movie was actually inspired by the song, so the song came out first) and the fad at the time was having a CB in your car ("Smokey and the Bandit" capitalized on that a few years later).
People who lived in the country used CB radios to communicate when the power went out. We lived in serious country, no cable TV. This was our only way to talk during tornadoes and other life threatening weather. CB ( citizens' band) radios also kept truckers awake and aware
@@t-bonethecanadian9430 nope my mom had a CB set up when I was a kid she would spend Friday nights talking with the truckers passing through and my stepdad had one in his car for long trips.
It’s a deep American Midwestern voice, a truckers voice from way back in the day. A day when men were men, suffered failure, heartbreak, financial ruin, lost dreams, yet kept on rollin’…doesn’t get anymore real than that in a world full of fakes and pretenders.
the main person in the movie had a CB handle of Rubber Duck. he said that his dad taught him to be just like a duck, Smooth on the surface but paddle like hell underneath.
Slang from the song Convoy by CW McCall Firstly congratulations on being one of like three reactors to choose the correct version and not the one used in the movie which uses a changed and less interesting version of the song. I always loved this song and coincidentally later in life married a trucker of more than thirty years. I tried to break the trucker lingo down line by line. I realize this morning that I forgot to add in the beginning The story is about a group of trucks traveling the same route together The conversation going back and forth is between two truckers using the nicknames/ handles of Pigpen who is driving a trailer full of hogs going to a meat processing plant and Rubber Duck who while he doesn't say it I think is the trucker who is driving the Petersburg Engine truck pulling a Refrigeratored Trailer full of good likely bound for a warehouse which will distribute the load to grocery stores. The convoy starts with three trucks but gets progressively bigger until the end. Breaker 19 this here's the Rubber Duck You got a copy on me Pigpen come on ( Pigpen this is the Rubber Duck with a message. Are you following me in the same direction.) Yeah 10-4 Pigpen for sure for sure By golly it's clean clear to Flag town come on ( you don't know what Pigpen says but clearly Rubber Duck agrees as 10-4 is yes or I understand Clean clear to Flag town means that they have an open road with little to no traffic currently all the way to Flagstaff, AZ.) Yeah it's a big 10-4 there Pigpen yeah we've definitely got the front door Mercy sakes alive it looks like we've got a Convoy ( We're leading this group of trucks traveling together) It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June and a Kenworth pulling logs (a logging industry truck with a Kenworth engine) Cab over Pete with a Refer on (a Cab over a Petersburg Engine pulling a Refrigeratored Trailer) And a Jimmy hauling hogs ( A GMC engine ) We was headed for Bear on I- 10 bout a mile out of Shakey Town ( we were about to pass police on Interstate 10 about a mile out of San Francisco…nicknamed Shakey Town because of the frequent earthquakes ) I said Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck and I’m about to put the hammer down ( both trucker nicknames/ handles and here we can assume that pigpen is the trucker in the Jimmy pulling a trailer full of hogs. The hammer down is to speed up/ hold the accelerator pedal to the floor. ) Chorus “Breaker Pigpen this here's the Duck you want to back off with them hogs” “ 10-4 about 5 miles or so those hogs are getting intense up here” you miss the conversation in between but breaker or breaker 19 meant that you had something to say so pick up. 10-4 meant that you have that right or I understand. Basically Rubber Duck is saying that the hogs stink so badly that he needs the Jimmy to back up by another 5 miles. Chorus By the time we got into Tulsa Town (Tulsa, Oklahoma) we had 85 trucks and all ( their group of trucks traveling together has gone from 3 trucks to 85 ) But there's a roadblock up on the Cloverleaf and them bears are wall to wall ( a Cloverleaf refers to the exit ramp which in bigger cities will have multiple sharp circular ramps that cross looking somewhat like a clover leaf… the bears walk to wall meant a lot of cops waiting for them) Yeah them Smokey's were thick as bugs on a bumper they even had a bear in the air ( Smokey the bear was used in the 1970s for ads to prevent forest fires so in this case Smileys referred to more cops…..a bear in the air/ a police helicopter) I said calling all trucks this here's the Duck we’re about to go hunting bear ( warning the truckers behind him in the convoy that there was a roadblock of police up ahead ) Chorus We rolled up Interstate 44 like a rocket sled on rails ( very quickly) we tore up all of our swindle sheets and left them setting on the scales ( in the US trucks are required to pull over to get weighed at weigh stations along the route and the weight has to match the original transport orders. Swindle sheets were used by truckers to write down how much time the trucker had rested and when they took their last break, Truckers are only allowed to have a 14 hour day driving and there has to be an hour lunch and two fifteen minute breaks in that time period, many truckers in order to be able to do a delivery on time or conversely to make it to a safe place to park for the night ( or better yet to get home on time) would cheat a little bit on those time sheets aka swindle sheets. ) By the time we hit that Chi Town them bears were getting smart ( Chicago ) they'd brought up reenforcements from the Illinois National Guard. There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps and rigs of every size ( a lot of military vehicles) Yeah them chicken coops were full of bears and choppers filled the skies ( chicken coops equalling a weigh station ) Well we shot the line and we went for broke with a thousand screaming trucks and 11 long haired friends of Jesus in a Chartreuse microbus ( religious hippies) (We crossed the state line at high speed with a thousand trucks where the Illinois National Guard had no power to stop us.) Rubber Duck this is Side buster “Yeah 10-4 you want to put that microbus next to that suicide jockey” “Yeah he's hauling dynamite and needs all the help he can get” Chorus Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore and prepared to cross the line ( getting on the NJ turnpike going into New Jersey coming up to a toll booth ) I could see the bridge was lined with bears but I didn't have a doggone dime ( he didn't have the cash to pay the toll which had more cops waiting ) I said Pigpen this here's the rubber Duck we just ain't a going to pay no toll So we crashed the gate doing 98 (mph) I said let them truckers roll 10-4 Final Chorus 10-4 Pigpen what's your 20 ( where are you headed now ) Omaha ! ( Nebraska which has pork processing plants ) well they’ll know what to do with them hogs there for sure. Mercy sakes good buddy we gonna back on out of here so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your ass. ( I’m going in another direction but I hope that your trip is safe/ uneventful ) You can't hear it here but on the single/ album that was followed with “We’ll catch you on the flip side, we go bye-bye” ( See you on the return trip… flip side was taken from the flip side/ side B of a record) Chorus: Well we’ve got a little old convoy Rocking through the night Yeah we’ve got a great big convoy Ain't she a beautiful sight Come on and join our convoy Ain't nothing going to get in our way We're going to roll this trucking convoy Across the USA, Convoy Final Chorus: Cause we've got a mighty convoy Rocking through the night Yeah we’ve got a mighty convoy Ain't she a beautiful sight Come on and join our convoy Ain't nothing going to get in our way We're going to roll this trucking convoy Across the USA, Convoy
This was a missive worldwide hit for CW McCall, It was the theme tune for the movie "Convoy" I wouldn't necessarily call it a country song, more like a novelty song but I'm sure he made a lot of money out of it.
Check out the country Acapella group "Home Free". They cover country and contemporary music. A couple songs to get you started, "Man of Constant Sorrow" , "Ring Of Fire" ( from Johnny Cash). They have a great bass singer, Tim Foust who blows speakers at live gigs.
When I first heard this song on the radio, my older brother, Lenny explained the parts of the lyrics that I did not understand. Now the “Bears” lyrics I did understand and I was routing for the truckers in this song. You see, we grew up in Mountain View, Georgia with the dirty Mayor Ray King using his police officers and his other supporters to harass the parents who were NOT Mayor Ray King voters/supporters. The supporters of his, including the police officers would follow the children during the school years in their patrol vehicles and lightly bump into us, some would force us into the grass off the side of the roads. The parents against Mayor Ray King would receive anonymous phone calls asking those parents “Do you know where your child is?” Things were worse during those miserable years, but I do not want to run out of comment room while explaining them.
For me, the introduction of rap and hip hop to MTV was quite jarring. It wasn't that I didn't like the rap and hip hop, it was that I was angry that I couldn't watch my own stuff. That led to bad feelings towards the genre, etc etc. I thought I coined rap crap lol!
For one thing you have to understand that he was a storyteller and not what you considered a typical country artist his songs will transport you to different parts of the country and make you laugh on some of his other songs if you listen to songs like the Silverton aurora borealis Jackson Hole these are all real places that he sings about and if you can picture being there Convoy was a huge hit but it was a novelty song don't judge the man's Talent just on this one song
Is character? CW. Was made from an old home Bread commercial and he used this to pushawn is career in the truck driving songs. He has other songs that will transport you to different parts of this country with amazing details. He is an environmentalist and sings. The praises of this country convoy was just a little novelty to. But not all inclusive to his talents.
Bill Fries aka CW Mc Call started off doing local / regional television commercials. The CW routine was part of that . Mavis the Truck Stop Waitress (built like a burlap bag full of bobcats just bustin out all over) the truck stop is located at BeeBeetown. Located at the I 680/I 80 junction just east of Omaha Nebraska. Sloan the dog his truck driving partner. The Nishnabotna River a local west Iowa waterway that really is a yard wide and a foot deep in many places. Lots of other local landmarks mentioned in his songs I challenge you to find a original video of Thee Blues Brothers movie then listen to this song immediately prior. Entire sections of movie synchs up with the lyrics. we tore up all of our swindle sheets and left them laying on the scale. by the time we got to Chi town them bears was a getting smart they brought up some reinforcements from the Illinois national guard. ...
Hello. Im a LIFE TIME FAN of the Music of CW McCall and the 1978 film Convoy since I was 9. Check out my Facebook Group ConvoyTM. .I understand your review a list of Country music. You gave the original Convoy song a "fair" review. Bill Fries aka CW McCall used a low baritone voice (that is his actual voice). He pefroemd six albums. The song Convoy was such a major hit in 1976 that his composer Chip Davis founded his own company Mannheim Steamroller. Bill Fries was an advertising writer out of Omaha, NE. .Asked to write advertising jingle for a bread trucking company, he also voiced over for the commercial. Nashville music producers heard about his popular commercials in 1974 and asked him and Chip Davis tp produce songs about truckers. Convoy was the mega stand out hit. In 1978 a film was released starring ironically actual country singer Kris Kristofferson. You should review the movie soundtrack version of Convoy, I honestly think it sounded much better in a kinda rock version..
Thank you for your feedback. I found out that there is another country artist who covered 'Convoy'. Once I'm done the 100 list I might react to that and I probably could do C.W. McCall's other version.
@@t-bonethecanadian9430 Yes in the early 2000s Canadian country singer Paul Brandt did a pretty good respectable version. I very much like your take on the movie version of Convo.
I was a CW McCall fan and a huge Mannheim Steamroller fan. I learned of their connection in one of Mannheim Steamroller’s albums. It came with a printed short history on the group. IIRC, the bread company was “Old Home Bread Co." and I remember the commercials.
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Convoy was a novelty song and CW McCall was a character who was actually Chip Davis the creator of Mannheim Steamroller.
Bill Fries created CW McCall. Chip Davis was his partner who wrote the music before he started Mannheim Steamroller.
Chip Davis was the producer. Bill Fries, an advertising executive, created the persona of C.W. McCall.
From someone that grew up in the 70-80s... in a small country town, i kinda think we are in the same boat. May not be my cup of tea but there are songs and artists that will get your attention. I grew up on 50s and 60s country and rockabilly... After being in the military for 20 years, my eyes opened a lot and listen to whatever i feel like at the time.
I have not heard this song in many years wow thanks
I loved the song back in the 70’s and still love it today. This is definitely middle America or rural America music. Most of us had CB’s back in the 70’s even though we weren’t truckers but they were cool because you could talk to everyone and you got to give yourself a CB handle(name like Rubber Duck). It usually had something to do with your job or personality or what you looked like. My dads name was Donald and he was able to do the Donald Duck voice so my dads handle was the Duck/Ducker. My uncles were Technician and Corn Cracker because that’s what they did for a living. My one uncle worked as a technician at a Power Plant and my other uncle worked at a corn plant named A. E. Staleys in Decatur Illinois where they cracked corn open and used every aspect of the corn. We had a good friend who’s handle was Rainbow Glass as he had a glass cutting business in town. It was so much fun being on the CB’s as you were traveling up and down the roads and highways in the 70’s. Just listening in to the truckers chatter was fun too. Great times!❤
Thank you internet... Big like from TulsaTown!
One of the first movies I seen as a kid was "Convoy" and I still have fond memories of it because of this song.
Cw had a lot of great songs
There was a whole CB radio culture in the 70s. I was called Little White Dove.
For those who don't know: Flag Town = Flagstaff, AZ; Shaky Town = Los Angeles, CA; Tulsa Town = Tulsa, OK; Swindle Sheets = Truck driver logs (driving records); Chi Town = Chicago; Chicken Coops = Weigh Station; Bear = Law Enforcement.
My dad’s handle was Coffee Cup and my mom’s was Gossip. My Uncle’ was Beehive.
Ha..my dad was a lorry (truck) driver here in the UK.. back in the early 80s he was massively into CB. His handle was Headbanger 😄
This really brings back memories. Before the days of cell phones, we had CBs. It was such a new notion, to be able to drive down the highway and actually talk to people in other cars. I remember one summer when my kids were young, we took a vacation through the western US. There were several families in 4 cars. Eveyone, even the kids had cB “handles” and could use the equipment. And in the midst of the CB craze came this song, “ convoy!” Great times.
I wouldn't consider this a "country song" so much as a top 40 song (they call it a "novelty song"). It was played over and over on the radio, but only because the movie "Convoy" starring Kris Kristofferson was really popular (the movie was actually inspired by the song, so the song came out first) and the fad at the time was having a CB in your car ("Smokey and the Bandit" capitalized on that a few years later).
Love this song, loved the move Convoy, based on the song with Kris Kristofferson
People who lived in the country used CB radios to communicate when the power went out. We lived in serious country, no cable TV. This was our only way to talk during tornadoes and other life threatening weather. CB ( citizens' band) radios also kept truckers awake and aware
I never thought of that. I always thought that CB radios were mostly for truckers.
@@t-bonethecanadian9430 nope my mom had a CB set up when I was a kid she would spend Friday nights talking with the truckers passing through and my stepdad had one in his car for long trips.
@@markcarpenter6020 My parents too. I can still remember my dad's voice so well "Breaker breaker 1-9, anybody out there? Come back"
@@susieq1565 I still remember my mom's handle was babydoll.
@@markcarpenter6020 My dad would go on but it's been so long I can't remember his handle. Ah, the good old days! Simpler times indeed.
That was top 40 and back then many people had CB radios at home
It’s a deep American Midwestern voice, a truckers voice from way back in the day. A day when men were men, suffered failure, heartbreak, financial ruin, lost dreams, yet kept on rollin’…doesn’t get anymore real than that in a world full of fakes and pretenders.
In the middle '70s CB radios became very popular. I had a base station and my license was KBMO6050.
Great comment! I always wondered how people couldn't connect with country music! Btw, I from " real country territory". The memories are priceless!
They made a movie out of this song.
the main person in the movie had a CB handle of Rubber Duck. he said that his dad taught him to be just like a duck, Smooth on the surface but paddle like hell underneath.
A big part of the CB radio was in the 70s
My handle from age 6 to11 yrs old was The Purple Kid. From 12 to 17 it was She Wolf.
Slang from the song Convoy by CW McCall
Firstly congratulations on being one of like three reactors to choose the correct version and not the one used in the movie which uses a changed and less interesting version of the song.
I always loved this song and coincidentally later in life married a trucker of more than thirty years.
I tried to break the trucker lingo down line by line. I realize this morning that I forgot to add in the beginning
The story is about a group of trucks traveling the same route together
The conversation going back and forth is between two truckers using the nicknames/ handles of Pigpen who is driving a trailer full of hogs going to a meat processing plant and Rubber Duck who while he doesn't say it I think is the trucker who is driving the Petersburg Engine truck pulling a Refrigeratored Trailer full of good likely bound for a warehouse which will distribute the load to grocery stores. The convoy starts with three trucks but gets progressively bigger until the end.
Breaker 19 this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pigpen come on
( Pigpen this is the Rubber Duck with a message. Are you following me in the same direction.)
Yeah 10-4 Pigpen for sure for sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag town
come on ( you don't know what Pigpen says but clearly Rubber Duck agrees as 10-4 is yes or I understand
Clean clear to Flag town means that they have an open road with little to no traffic currently all the way to Flagstaff, AZ.)
Yeah it's a big 10-4 there Pigpen yeah we've definitely got the front door
Mercy sakes alive it looks like we've got a Convoy ( We're leading this group of trucks traveling together)
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June and a Kenworth pulling logs (a logging industry truck with a Kenworth engine)
Cab over Pete with a Refer on
(a Cab over a Petersburg Engine pulling a Refrigeratored Trailer)
And a Jimmy hauling hogs ( A GMC engine )
We was headed for Bear on I- 10 bout a mile out of Shakey Town ( we were about to pass police on Interstate 10 about a mile out of San Francisco…nicknamed Shakey Town because of the frequent earthquakes )
I said Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck and I’m about to put the hammer down ( both trucker nicknames/ handles and here we can assume that pigpen is the trucker in the Jimmy pulling a trailer full of hogs. The hammer down is to speed up/ hold the accelerator pedal to the floor. )
Chorus
“Breaker Pigpen this here's the Duck you want to back off with them hogs” “ 10-4 about 5 miles or so those hogs are getting intense up here” you miss the conversation in between but breaker or breaker 19 meant that you had something to say so pick up. 10-4 meant that you have that right or I understand. Basically Rubber Duck is saying that the hogs stink so badly that he needs the Jimmy to back up by another 5 miles.
Chorus
By the time we got into Tulsa Town (Tulsa, Oklahoma) we had 85 trucks and all ( their group of trucks traveling together has gone from 3 trucks to 85 )
But there's a roadblock up on the Cloverleaf and them bears are wall to wall ( a Cloverleaf refers to the exit ramp which in bigger cities will have multiple sharp circular ramps that cross looking somewhat like a clover leaf… the bears walk to wall meant a lot of cops waiting for them)
Yeah them Smokey's were thick as bugs on a bumper they even had a bear in the air ( Smokey the bear was used in the 1970s for ads to prevent forest fires so in this case Smileys referred to more cops…..a bear in the air/ a police helicopter)
I said calling all trucks this here's the Duck we’re about to go hunting bear ( warning the truckers behind him in the convoy that there was a roadblock of police up ahead )
Chorus
We rolled up Interstate 44 like a rocket sled on rails ( very quickly) we tore up all of our swindle sheets and left them setting on the scales ( in the US trucks are required to pull over to get weighed at weigh stations along the route and the weight has to match the original transport orders. Swindle sheets were used by truckers to write down how much time the trucker had rested and when they took their last break, Truckers are only allowed to have a 14 hour day driving and there has to be an hour lunch and two fifteen minute breaks in that time period, many truckers in order to be able to do a delivery on time or conversely to make it to a safe place to park for the night ( or better yet to get home on time) would cheat a little bit on those time sheets aka swindle sheets. )
By the time we hit that Chi Town them bears were getting smart ( Chicago )
they'd brought up reenforcements from the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps and rigs of every size ( a lot of military vehicles)
Yeah them chicken coops were full of bears and choppers filled the skies ( chicken coops equalling a weigh station )
Well we shot the line and we went for broke with a thousand screaming trucks and 11 long haired friends of Jesus in a Chartreuse microbus
( religious hippies) (We crossed the state line at high speed with a thousand trucks where the Illinois National Guard had no power to stop us.)
Rubber Duck this is Side buster
“Yeah 10-4 you want to put that microbus next to that suicide jockey” “Yeah he's hauling dynamite and needs all the help he can get”
Chorus
Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore and prepared to cross the line ( getting on the NJ turnpike going into New Jersey coming up to a toll booth )
I could see the bridge was lined with bears but I didn't have a doggone dime ( he didn't have the cash to pay the toll which had more cops waiting )
I said Pigpen this here's the rubber Duck we just ain't a going to pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doing 98 (mph)
I said let them truckers roll 10-4
Final Chorus
10-4 Pigpen what's your 20 ( where are you headed now )
Omaha ! ( Nebraska which has pork processing plants ) well they’ll know what to do with them hogs there for sure.
Mercy sakes good buddy we gonna back on out of here so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your ass. ( I’m going in another direction but I hope that your trip is safe/ uneventful )
You can't hear it here but on the single/ album that was followed with
“We’ll catch you on the flip side, we go bye-bye”
( See you on the return trip… flip side was taken from the flip side/ side B of a record)
Chorus: Well we’ve got a little old convoy
Rocking through the night
Yeah we’ve got a great big convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothing going to get in our way
We're going to roll this trucking convoy
Across the USA, Convoy
Final Chorus: Cause we've got a mighty convoy
Rocking through the night
Yeah we’ve got a mighty convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothing going to get in our way
We're going to roll this trucking convoy
Across the USA, Convoy
This was a missive worldwide hit for CW McCall, It was the theme tune for the movie "Convoy" I wouldn't necessarily call it a country song, more like a novelty song but I'm sure he made a lot of money out of it.
Check out the country Acapella group "Home Free". They cover country and contemporary music. A couple songs to get you started, "Man of Constant Sorrow" , "Ring Of Fire" ( from Johnny Cash). They have a great bass singer, Tim Foust who blows speakers at live gigs.
William Fries is great as a singer or CW Macall his nickname
When I first heard this song on the radio, my older brother, Lenny explained the parts of the lyrics that I did not understand. Now the “Bears” lyrics I did understand and I was routing for the truckers in this song. You see, we grew up in Mountain View, Georgia with the dirty Mayor Ray King using his police officers and his other supporters to harass the parents who were NOT Mayor Ray King voters/supporters. The supporters of his, including the police officers would follow the children during the school years in their patrol vehicles and lightly bump into us, some would force us into the grass off the side of the roads. The parents against Mayor Ray King would receive anonymous phone calls asking those parents “Do you know where your child is?” Things were worse during those miserable years, but I do not want to run out of comment room while explaining them.
Need to watch the movie. A group of white and black truckers banded together to help a fellow trucker (who was black) and had been racially targeted.
Watch the movie, Convoy
For me, the introduction of rap and hip hop to MTV was quite jarring. It wasn't that I didn't like the rap and hip hop, it was that I was angry that I couldn't watch my own stuff. That led to bad feelings towards the genre, etc etc. I thought I coined rap crap lol!
For one thing you have to understand that he was a storyteller and not what you considered a typical country artist his songs will transport you to different parts of the country and make you laugh on some of his other songs if you listen to songs like the Silverton aurora borealis Jackson Hole these are all real places that he sings about and if you can picture being there Convoy was a huge hit but it was a novelty song don't judge the man's Talent just on this one song
Listen to the movie song
Is character?
CW.
Was made from an old home Bread commercial and he used this to pushawn is career in the truck driving songs.
He has other songs that will transport you to different parts of this country with amazing details. He is an environmentalist and sings. The praises of this country convoy was just a little novelty to.
But not all inclusive to his talents.
Great country tunes. He stopped loving her today, waylon Jennings america jac brown chicken fried walk the line . Encompasses the meaning of country.
Rubber duck = Kris Kristofersson, you got to listen to him. For that matter you have to see the movie with the same name "Convoy".
Bill Fries aka CW Mc Call started off doing local / regional television commercials. The CW routine was part of that . Mavis the Truck Stop Waitress (built like a burlap bag full of bobcats just bustin out all over) the truck stop is located at BeeBeetown. Located at the I 680/I 80 junction just east of Omaha Nebraska. Sloan the dog his truck driving partner. The Nishnabotna River a local west Iowa waterway that really is a yard wide and a foot deep in many places. Lots of other local landmarks mentioned in his songs
I challenge you to find a original video of Thee Blues Brothers movie then listen to this song immediately prior. Entire sections of movie synchs up with the lyrics. we tore up all of our swindle sheets and left them laying on the scale. by the time we got to Chi town them bears was a getting smart they brought up some reinforcements from the Illinois national guard. ...
My oldest brother's handle was Paul Bunyan...we used to tease his wife about being Babe the Blue Ox. 😂
I'm a subside jockey my handle is hillblly
It might help you if you watch the movie to get the feel of it.
Let them truckers roll 10-4
Next I suggest Wolf Creek Pass.
Way up on the Great Divide
The song was based on a real thing. I remember watching it on TV here in Canada. I am not sure of what triggered it.
Shaky town ie California 10.4 pig pen good buddy I'm .10.10 on the side I'm down and gone you got the rubber duck im gone 😂
WATCH THE MOVIE.. CONVOY.
Hello. Im a LIFE TIME FAN of the Music of CW McCall and the 1978 film Convoy since I was 9. Check out my Facebook Group ConvoyTM. .I understand your review a list of Country music. You gave the original Convoy song a "fair" review. Bill Fries aka CW McCall used a low baritone voice (that is his actual voice). He pefroemd six albums. The song Convoy was such a major hit in 1976 that his composer Chip Davis founded his own company Mannheim Steamroller. Bill Fries was an advertising writer out of Omaha, NE. .Asked to write advertising jingle for a bread trucking company, he also voiced over for the commercial. Nashville music producers heard about his popular commercials in 1974 and asked him and Chip Davis tp produce songs about truckers. Convoy was the mega stand out hit. In 1978 a film was released starring ironically actual country singer Kris Kristofferson. You should review the movie soundtrack version of Convoy, I honestly think it sounded much better in a kinda rock version..
Thank you for your feedback. I found out that there is another country artist who covered 'Convoy'. Once I'm done the 100 list I might react to that and I probably could do C.W. McCall's other version.
@@t-bonethecanadian9430 Yes in the early 2000s Canadian country singer Paul Brandt did a pretty good respectable version. I very much like your take on the movie version of Convo.
I was a CW McCall fan and a huge Mannheim Steamroller fan. I learned of their connection in one of Mannheim Steamroller’s albums. It came with a printed short history on the group. IIRC, the bread company was “Old Home Bread Co." and I remember the commercials.
I could tell by all of your smiling and expressions on your face that you thought it was great lol.
The Canadian convoy didn't have a real good time with it thanks to the Prime Minister. What he did to those truckers was wrong.