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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.
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 ...
From there, they cross the English Channel en route through Omaha Beach, the Berlin Wall via the Autobahn, the Soviet Union and Japan, before Pig Pen—recalled from Omaha at the beginning of the song—lands in Australia, where there is no 55 mph speed limit, and the Rubber Duck decides to take the convoy there. Interspersed through the song ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Convoy (song) Country Music Is Here to Stay; D. A Dear John Letter; F. Forgive Me ...
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.
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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.