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24 April 2008

C. W. McCall

Convoy

Convoy, the film from 1978 was based on this song from 1976. How many songs have that going for them? - They were so good they got turned into a film?!

The story of C.W.McCall is a strange one. While working as a creative for an ad agency in 1974, Bill Fries created a character called C.W.McCall who featured in a television advert as a trucker.

He then started writing songs for the character and had huge hit records like this number one and a whole slew of albums. Bizarre.

Convoy also had loads of CB slang which I love...

C.W.McCall - Convoy

Posted at 05:12 PM in 1970s, Country |

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Brian

Nice! My Dad left me one of these albums amongst his very varied LP collection... so classic!!

Posted by: Brian | 02 June 2008 at 07:13 PM

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