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"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]
A dozen C.W. McCall songs appeared on Billboard ' s Hot Country Singles chart, including the sentimental "Roses for Mama" (1977). [2] "Classified" and "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" (a pirate-flavored sequel to "Convoy") bubbled under the Hot 100. In 1978, the movie Convoy was released, based on the C. W. McCall song. [2]
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.
Convoy (1978) Rarely does a theme song predate a movie, but "Convoy" is based on C.W. McCall's 1975 chart-topping country anthem of the same name. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as trucker ...
The sole Hot 100-topping hit for the ad exec-turned-hitmaker arrived at the center of a number of mid-'70s trends.
Bill Fries, the country singer who used the stage name C.W. McCall and was behind the No. 1 hit “Convoy,” died Friday. He was 93. Fries had been battling cancer, the Washington Post reported.
Black Bear Road is an album by country musician C. W. McCall, released on MGM Records in 1975 (see 1975 in music).It is largely considered the album which gave him the most significant boost of his career, almost entirely due to the hit novelty song, "Convoy", that hit the number one spot on both Billboard's Country charts and its Pop charts.
Louis F. "Chip" Davis Jr. (born September 5, 1947) is the founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller. [1] Davis composed the music for several C. W. McCall albums, including the hit 1975 song "Convoy". He has also written and made other albums, such as Day Parts, and has written several books.