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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] CB vocabulary – which is different from truck driver lingo [11] – is used by both truckers and the general public ...
The song was also covered by Saddle Tramps and appears on the multiple-artist compilation album "Nev Nicholls Presents Truckin Towards 2000". [3] It has also been covered by Aaron Tippin on his 2009 album "In Overdrive". Country music band Old Dominion covered the song from the television special CMT Giants: Alabama.
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.
The first big truck-driving hit from Sovine, "Giddyup Go" is the tale of an emotional father-son reunion at a highway truck stop. The reunion is played out near the end of the song. In the setup, the elder truck driver—who shares his experiences in first person—explains that he had spent the better part of 25 years on the road, most of them ...
The song is a version of the Vanishing hitchhiker ghost story, however, the driver, not the hitchhiker, is the ghost. In the movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure , protagonist Pee-wee Herman , hitchhiking at night, is given a ride by trucker Large Marge, who proceeds to tell him of a horrible accident that occurred on the night in question years ...
In 1963, the song became a major hit when released by Dudley, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and cracking the Top 40 (#32) on the Hot 100, leading to it being hailed as the definitive celebration of the American truck driver.
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 ...
Wolf Creek Pass, The Old Home Filler-up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Cafe (and Other Wild Places.) is the debut album by country musician C. W. McCall, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music) on MGM Records. It was recorded after the success of a song included in the album, "Old Home Filler-up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Cafe", which was used in a popular ...