C.W. McCall - Convoy flac album

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. The song itself was largely responsible for starting a nationwide citizens' band radio craze.

McCall recorded a new version of the song with different lyrics for the soundtrack of the 1978 film Convoy. McCall also made two additional re-recordings of the original song, one for his 1990 album The Real McCall: An American Storyteller, and the other for the 2003 Mannheim Steamroller album American Spirit.

Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. McCall (pseudonym of Bill Fries) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the . Written by McCall and Chip Davis, the song spent six weeks at number one on the country charts and one week at number one on the pop charts. The song went to number one in Canada as well, hitting the top of the RPM Top Singles Chart on January 24, 1976.

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Watch the video for Convoy from . McCall's Total Hits Vol. 2 for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. This is a novelty song inspired by the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. The story of "Convoy" was told in CB jargon and with a Country and Western (the ". php?id 3034 for more info, trivia and a break down of some of CB terms used in "Convoy".

Label: MGM Records ‎– M-14839. From MGM Album M3G 5008 "Black Bear Road". Manufactured and distributed by Polydor Ltd. Other Versions (5 of 21) View All.

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