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Over his career Slim Dusty recorded 80 plus original Aussie 'trucking' songs and his six standalone trucking albums achieved sales well in excess of half a million copies. [1] In March 2007, a 3-disc Slim Dusty compilation titled Pubs, Trucks & Plains was released which peaked at number 20 onto ARIA Charts and was certified gold. This single ...
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance is the debut album by the Australian band TISM.The album peaked at No. 48 on the ARIA Charts in October 1988. [1]The vinyl version has a different vocal mix on the track, "Saturday Night Palsy", including an alternate line of lyrics, with the line "I want to shoot heroin through the eye" replaced by "I want to shove a red-hot poker through the eye" on ...
Songs about truck driving or the truck industry. Pages in category "Songs about truck driving" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [1]
Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska; [1] May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003) [2] was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass.
Folk songs adopt, adapt, and incorporate colloquialisms, slang, and occupational terms into verbal snapshots. In truck-driving country, such specialized words and terms as truck rodeo, dog house, twin screw, Georgia overdrive, saddle tanks, jake brake, binder and others borrowed from the lingo of truckers are commonly utilized. [10]
In 1965, Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson was looking for someone to record some songs about trucking. His first choice was Haggard, who wasn't interested, but Simpson readily agreed. His first, Tommy Collins' "Roll, Truck, Roll", became a Top 40 country hit and Simpson recorded an album of the same name. That year he offered up two more ...
"The trucking songs coincided with country music's growing identification as working man's music in the 1960s," he said. [2] ... "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.