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Song based on a real-life drunk driving crash [9] and the impact of a subsequent organ donation. "Lights on the Hill" Slim Dusty: 1973: The song describes a trucker driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling of the edge of a road and realising his impending death. "Limousine" Brand New: 2005
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.
"Teddy Bear" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Red Sovine. It was released in June 1976 as the title track to Sovine's album of the same name. The song — actually, a recitation with an instrumental backing — was one of Sovine's many recordings that saluted the American truck driver.
Upon learning about his song being used during the counter-protests, MacDonald said that he was "totally elated that my song could be used to stand up for science". [6] He subsequently created an over twenty-minute-long song with equally explicit lyrics as "Ram Ranch", specifically themed around the truckers, simply named "Ottawa Truckers." [2] [4]
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.
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry.
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 ...
"Beer Beer, Truck Truck" is a 2021 song by American country music singer George Birge. The chorus of the song is a based on a viral video on TikTok made by Erynn Chambers, intended to satirize country music. The song in turn defends the genre, and lists Chambers as a co-author.