C.W. McCall, the baritone country singer best known for his CB-inspired 1976 chart-topping hit “Convoy” has died at age 93. The death of the performer born Bill Fries — who recorded under the McCall ...

A upper Midwest baking company's advertising campaign created not one, but two cultural phenomenons: the 1976 No. 1 hit song "Convoy" by C.W. McCall and the group Mannheim Steamroller, best known for ...

C.W. McCall, an advertising executive-turned-country singer who cashed in on the CB radio craze of the mid-1970s with his No. 1 crossover hit "Convoy," died Friday, his son said. He was 93. McCall, ...

If you grew up in the 1970s (or your parents did), you might remember the number-one hit song “Convoy” about a group of renegade truckers. The song spent one glorious week as number one on the pop ...

"Convoy," a 1976 novelty song attributed to C.W. McCall, topped the charts with its celebration of citizens band radio, trucker lingo and rugged... How A Trucker's Protest Anthem Became A '70s Hit ...

In January 1976, the Billboard Hot 100 featured an unlikely chart topper. For the week of Jan. 10, 1976, the novelty hit “Convoy” was the No. 1 song, five weeks after making its debut on the chart in ...

Mr. Fries, who performed under the stage name C.W. McCall, was an ad executive before he scored a hit with “Convoy,” a CB radio-inspired ode to renegade truckers. By Michael Levenson Bill Fries, the ...

Trucking’s rise in pop culture was well underway when “Convoy” was released in late 1975, capturing the hearts of not just truckers but many Americans. The song, heavily laden with CB slang and ...