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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]
In some versions, the song begins with a CB radio call saying "How about ya, Alabama, Roll On", which was recorded from an actual CB call placed to Alabama's bus in the late 70s. In the song's second verse, the man's wife receives a late-night phone call from an unnamed source, informing her that the highway patrol had found a semitrailer truck ...
Movin' On stars Claude Akins as old-time independent "big-rig" truck driver Sonny Pruitt, and Frank Converse as his college-educated co-driver Will Chandler. The theme song, "Movin' On", was written and performed by Merle Haggard, and was a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1975.
"Hit a truck doing 70 in the wrong lane in the big league". "B.J. the D.J." Stonewall Jackson: 1964: Title protagonist – a hard-living, sleep-deprived disc jockey – dies when his car crashes off the road. "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" The Cheers: 1955: A motorcyclist vanishes after getting hit by a train. "Black Ice"
"Movin' On" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers.It was released in May 1975 as the third single and partial title track from the album Keep Movin' On.
Created as a track for the disco film Saturday Night Fever (1977), "Stayin' Alive" became one of the greatest and most popular songs to ever arise from a movie soundtrack. Funnily enough, the song ...
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.
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.