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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]
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 ]
An analysis by British website money.co.uk of 16,000 country songs from the 1950s to today shows 4.16% feature pickup trucks. Surveys show who sings about pickups most, and which truck's No. 1 ...
The record spent 21 weeks on this chart, and it also became a minor hit on Top 40 radio stations, peaking at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also listed at #13 on their easy listening survey. Many truck-driving themed hits followed for Dudley, including "Last Day in the Mines," "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun" and "Truck Driver's Prayer."
Songs About the Working Man: 19 Mercury Travelin' with Dave Dudley: 8 Talk of the Town: 16 1965 Rural Route No. 1 — Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun: 3 Greatest Hits — 1966 There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere: 12 Lonelyville: 6 Free and Easy: 10 1967 My Kind of Love — Dave Dudley Country: 29 1968 Greatest Hits Vol. 2: 39 Thanks for ...
Eighteen different songs have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024. Kendrick Lamar has three hits on the list, the most of any artist. "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey had the longest ...
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 ...