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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]
C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits, as the title suggests, is a greatest hits compilation of country musician C. W. McCall's work, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music) on Polydor Records, rereleased on September 21, 1993 and containing songs from the first five out of his six albums of original music, including the ever-popular "Convoy" and its sequel, "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck".
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]
The sole Hot 100-topping hit for the ad exec-turned-hitmaker arrived at the center of a number of mid-'70s trends.
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. The cover is almost identical to that of McCall's second album, Black Bear Road.
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.
C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits (1983) C. W. McCall & Co. is country musician C. W. McCall 's sixth and last album of original songs, released on Polydor Records in 1979 (see 1979 in music ), before McCall (or, more accurately, Bill Fries, the man playing his role) announced his retirement from the music industry.