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Convoy" also peaked at number two in the UK. The song capitalized on the fad for citizens band (CB) radio. The song was the inspiration for the 1978 Sam Peckinpah film Convoy, for which McCall rerecorded the song to fit the film's storyline. [4] The song received newfound popularity with its use during the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
Convoy is a 1978 American road action comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair and Franklyn Ajaye. The film is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song " Convoy " by C. W. McCall .
William Dale Fries Jr. (November 15, 1928 – April 1, 2022) was an American commercial artist who won several Clio Awards for his advertising campaigns. He was also a musician remembered for his character C. W. McCall, a truck-driving country singer that he created for a series of bread commercials while working for an Omaha advertising agency as an art director.
It is an answer song to "Convoy", a major hit in 1976. The song was a gay-themed takeoff on the citizens band radio fad [1] [2] and featured a "smokey" (highway patrolman) pretending to be a gay truck driver over the CB radio; the patrolman's masquerade distracts the lead trucker in a convoy who is listening to him, allowing the highway patrol ...
The Best of C. W. McCall is a greatest hits album released by country musician C. W. McCall on the PSM label in 1997 (see 1997 in music).As with all "best of" releases from McCall, the album contains the wildly popular song "Convoy", as well as eleven others.
The article says: "The convoy begins toward "Flagtown" (Flagstaff, Arizona or Flagtown, New Jersey as the song ends in NJ) at night on June 6 on "I-one-oh" (I-10) just outside "Shakytown" (Los Angeles, California, due to its earth tremors)." The I-10 doesn't go near New Jersey, and the convoy is heading west to east and New Jersey is in the east.
Convoy, an American silent film starring Lowell Sherman; Convoy, a British film directed by Pen Tennyson; Convoy, a film by Sam Peckinpah and Kris Kristofferson, inspired by the C. W. McCall song of the same name; Convoy, a 1965 television series starring John Gavin
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