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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]
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 .
The events at the end of the song take place in Chicago, where the Illinois police are deployed, not the New Jersey border. I have no source for this so I won't update the article, but it seems the most logical interpretation (inasmuch as "Convoy" can be logically interpreted, anyway.) 71.125.134.83 01:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
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.
Chicago police release video of 3 suspects wanted in ...
A senior Ukrainian official says Russian forces on Saturday shelled a civilian evacuation convoy in the country’s northeast, killing 20 people. ... demanding the director's immediate release.
After vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers were imposed in January by Canada and the United States, a so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ was organized in protest.
"The Peoples Convoy" ... "Chicago Rap Festival" ... with an accompanying music video, which was released on the Channel 5 YouTube channel on January 4, 2022. ...