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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]
Songs About the Working Man: 19 Mercury Travelin' with Dave Dudley: 8 Talk of the Town: 16 1965 Rural Route No. 1 — Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun: 3 Greatest Hits — 1966 There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere: 12 Lonelyville: 6 Free and Easy: 10 1967 My Kind of Love — Dave Dudley Country: 29 1968 Greatest Hits Vol. 2: 39 Thanks for ...
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.
Christopher Wallace (AKA Notorious B.I.G.) was a ‘90s rap titan and this breakthrough song is widely considered to be one of the greatest hip-hop tracks of all time. Listen Now 5.
Trucking achieved national attention during the 1960s and 70s, when songs and movies about truck driving were major hits. Truck drivers participated in widespread strikes against the rising cost of fuel, during the energy crises of 1973 and 1979 , and the industry was drastically deregulated by the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 .
"Truck Drivin' Man" is a "honky tonk strut" written by Edward King and Ronnie Van Zant and recorded by American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1973 as a demo song. [1] It was released posthumously on 5 October 1987 as the sixth track (or first track on side 2) on the 1987 compilation album Legend .
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 ...
"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.