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"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty single 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. Written by McCall and Davis, the song capitalized on the 1970s fad for citizens band (CB) radio. The success of the single inspired the Convoy film in 1978, an action-comedy directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw.

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"Well, we shot the line We went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long haired Friends of Jesus In a Chartreuse microbus" - C.W. McCall, Convoy

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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.

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Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978) starts to lose momentum just as the rubber hits the road.

Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978) starts to lose momentum just as the rubber hits the road. #Review

Judged by what made it to the screen, CONVOY is far from Sam Peckinpah’s best work. Intended to capitalise on the booming popularity of CB radio and American road culture during the 1970’s, this ruggedly goofy movie adaptation of the C W McCall song of the same name was a superficial commercial success (the biggest of Peckinpah’s career) but a critical and financial failure, prematurely killing…