Years ago, I was in labor with my first child and my dad was driving me & hubby 100 miles to the nearest hospital. He got on the C.B. and before I knew it we were being escorted by what seemed like “a thousand screaming trucks.” I certainly was preoccupied but those wonderful men and women got us there safely and with more “congratulations” than I’ve ever heard, before or since. I still see every big rig captain as my own personal heroes. Thank you, Truckers ❤
Such an awesome story! When I was a kid my mom was single with 4 kids… she had a Cb radio and had help from truckers when i got sick! The good ole days! Sweet
I love how the people who weren't born in the 80's-90's are hating on this song, while the people who were, like me, love it. Brings back so many memories.
+Mango Studios I grew up in the 60's and was in my 20's in the 70's. I remember when the CB craze started, everybody had one and acted like they were truck drivers, it was only a short lived fad, really stupid and ridiculous, it lasted only about a year or so when everybody started to throw their CB's away, just like the ridiculous clothes of the time.
Mango Studios I was 10 when this came out. I still love this song. I also liked the movie " Convoy " came out in 1978. If you haven't seen it , check it out.
This song and Smokey and the Bandit started the CB craze back in the late 70's. I know CBs had already been around for a long time prior to this song but it "popularized them in general population. Fun times.
grew up down south. people up north don't remember opec or mandates back then. coors beer. adopto dad was from oklahoma, we had coors beer in Ga before it was legal. lol I am having fun.
It was 1975 and I was 8 years old when this song came out. Talk shit about it all you want but this song was in the top 10 country and pop charts and at least this song tells a story and is not meaningless bullshit like Lil Wayne and that crappy auto tune rap that says absolutely nothing.
+Kevin Hodge I was 11 and down here in NZ it was a number one hit an we all played convoy and all dreamed of being truck drivers................all time classic tune rubber duck 10-4
This song Brings back lots of memories for sure I’m still driving since 1979 at 18 years old with a chauffeurs license no CDL required didn’t exist drove a cab over tractor but now drive a conventional tractor but like everything else when the federal government deregulated the trucking industry they killed the good pay and destroyed the truckers wages and lifestyle now it’s a joke. Sad days little pay with to many miles high maintenance and regulated to death and now there going to bring back higher fuel prices so you can’t survive a dirty shame.
My dad was a trucker in the late 70's, early 80's and I spent two summers on the road with him. This song reminds me a lot about those days I spent on the road with my dad.
Yeah it stirs something inside of me but makes me happy. Sad so much is buried in time. Kids especially ate losing out with modern day life! I also saw post saying kids don't motion for truckers to honk much anymore and truckers miss that
I can assure you that even in deepest, darkest West Cork, Ireland, for a period of about 6 months back in 1976, every young male with an Opel Kadett was driving around the bog roads saying "10-4 Good Buddy", "What's your 20?", "Roger-D" and "Mind the Shhmokies".
This song always makes me smile and tear up a little too. My much older brother, Bill, who passed away in 2015, had been a trucker for almost 20 years when he got me into CB radio as a teenager in 1973. When this song came out in '76 I was dumbfounded because the handle he had run back and forth across the country with for more than a decade was...you got it...Rubber Duck! RIP Big Brother. You may have gone 10-7 but you are still loved and missed very much.
my older brother Joe...passed away in 2020 he was not a truck driver..but i still loved and miss him very much..he may be gone, but will never be forgotten by me!!!!
Damn Pam you ain't kidding take me back Kenworth hauling logs cabover Pete with a reefer on Jimmy hauling Hogs damn what has happened this country where did time go.
I was 13 when this song came out. I remember sitting in my dad's car,a 1971 Ford LTD listening to the CB radio. I'd talk on the CB for hours,at the time we all thought it was amazing. I'm 58 now, Dad's passed,the car is long gone but what I wouldn't give to go back in time to those days. Such simple pleasures.
Same here, I was 13 or 14 when this came out. I remember being at a party where someone had a CB radio and we tuned into the truckers we thought that was about the coolest thing we'd EVER seen! Imagine, talking to someone far away driving in a truck!!!
I just heard of C. W. McCall's passing a few minutes ago. I had to listen to this song again. I was 9 in 1975 when this song came out. My family and I loved it! Sure brings back memories! Catchy tune that always stuck in my mind. Time marches on! From Loudoun County,Va. 😇😇😇😇😇⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾😎😎😎😎😎
Best line of the 70's; It was the Dark of moon on the 6th of June, an a Kenworth haulin logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a JImmy haulin hogs."
My daughter was about 3 years old when this song came on the radio SHE starts singing at the top of her lungs "John Boy." What little ones hear Now she's 46 and still loves it
Big O Truckin John Boy. What a time when the Waltons was on TV, and this was on the Movie Screen. My uncle took a bunch of us kids to see this movie. I think I was about 9. I can relate because I had no idea what a Convoy was. However, I had heard CB talk since birth. I had a T-shirt said, "What's You 20?" Finally, I learned what it meant about the 5th time I wore it. CB's were a bit of a fad but were used in real life by trucks and out on farms 🚜 .. No cell phones back then, and you had to be within a few miles of each other Lots of static and very hard to understand. Most of the time, I couldn't. Honestly, I don't know how they learned all that. Then, it faded away... nearly all gone.
My dad was a truck driver and I used to go with him during summer time when I was out of school. We would listen to this and other trucker stuff. All of it means so much more to me now because after my husband passed away, I decided to drive. I did it for five years from coast to coast and loved every bit of it!!
Man this chorus is so catchy stuck in my head still to this day. Great use of the F Major key that violin kicks ass. Deserves to be a number one hit ACROSS THE USA!
My dad was a truck driver for over 3p years,. His handle was Sundown. For the uninformed the cb radio handle (name) is how all truckers referred to each other. When Sundown( my dad) went 10-7 in September of 2020, I had to notify all his truck driving friends. True to their nature his cell phone had them all listed under their cb handles. Dad this is one of the songs we use to listen to together, I miss you and think of you often. Keep On Truckin
Hello Deborah you have a very nice name have we meet before? You have a very good way of expressing yourself I wonder what it will cost me to know more about you ?
my dad was the greatest trucker ever!! 76 Mack cabover.. global van lines... I was 15 and spent my next few summers watching him put that thing where nobody else would put a car
Yes good ol 27 Mhz, I remember using it and in a small city there were lots of free channels, back then I had a 40 channel. In a large city it was so congested, this was in the late 80's.
Yep, I hear ya. Channel 19 was the truckers channel and I could always keep an ear out on where the 'bears' were, and if not the truckers, then there was always somebody out there who also know where they were hiding. In those days, they (The Police) could actually hide from you, but today, THAT, is against the law..........somebody might just caught for speeding.
Here the truckies channel was 5, and they would always talk about a double bubble, as in the lights on the top of the cop cars. or they would talk about a divvie van, as in the one they could lock you up in the back.
Loved this song when I was a cb'er in Washington State, KFR1946 also known as the Lost Cause. Transmitted from Olympia. Had a kicker so could transmit as far as Idaho. Moved to Oahu, Hawaii and became a ham radio operator under call sign NH7ZD. Still listen to this song every now and then even in 2024.I was sad hearing about Bill Fries passing but U-Tube is still keeping his songs alive.
LOVE IT!!! I love "Wolf Creek Pass" by CW, too. Anything that begins with "Me and Earl" can't be all bad. But this song, along with CW's voice, will go down in history.
R.I.P. This clip was played in the mid 90s on a show called 70s Flashback. Suzanne Sommers hosted it just about the same time she did Step By Step. And around the time that VH-1 had reruns of The Midnight Special, America Bandstand. Solid Gold and The Sonny & Cher Show. VH-1 ran 70s Flashback from 1994 to 1999. Erik Estrada hosted after Suzanne left but he only did the final season or so. Leif Garrett was also hosting the show sometimes. But mostly Suzanne Sommers hosted. P.S. Per another clip David Cassidy also hosted. And it was renamed 8 Track Flashback. My memory is fading but I used to watch this. I was between 13 and 18. 30 years have passed.
I just read of Mr. McCall's death. I absolutely love this song--I guess you could say its one of my guilty pleasures. My Dad was a long haul truck driver all of his adult life. When this song came out, I was in elementary school and my Dad would take me with him several times during my summer vacations. Of course, my Dad had a CB and we'd monitor it while driving. Occasionally, I'd get on and talk to some of the other truckers. I remember hearing this on the radio, and I loved it from the start. Especially because it mentions the "6th of June", which is my birthday. Along with Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear", this song takes me back to those care free days riding along with my Dad. RIP C.W. McCall.
Hey Man, I retired in 2015, drove Logging Trucks in the Northwest, my Dad was in the Korean War, Us Air Force B-52 Gunner, drove trucks in his earlier days, pass away in 2009. I sure our father's are in good hands, driving the Lord Potatoes Trucks. As my Mom would say every time you hear the Thunder coming from the Heaven, that the Lord Potatoes Trucks on the move again. Keep on Trucking, somebody got to move this Great Country of our..
One night I was going to My Sister's. The garbage on the CB was bad, so I turned it off but I started getting sleepy. I had to turn it back on. I broke in and the talk changed. Talking makes you alert. There was a guy traveling Northbound, like me. Thank goodness for the CB!!! IT has saved my life more than once!!
I grew up when hundreds of songs like this turned into memories of great times. You could identify with songs for decades. No more. I'm lucky I grew up when I did.
No profanity, no racial slurs, no calling women b****** an ho's,. ..Just pure fun. When I hear songs like this it reminds me that my time on this Earth has truly come and passed. I thank God for the childhood I had. The memories I made, good and bad.
I too was 9 years old in '76. I had what I recall was the the C.W. McHaul tractor trailer toy. Based on C.W. McCall, didn't realize that at the time. Had a lot of fun with that toy. It had a microphone attached to it with the speaker in the tractor. Good memories.
I grew up with CW McCall an honorary member of my Family. This brings back so many wonderful memories of my family roaming all over the Oregon and Northern California mountains together with this blasting out of the 8-track. 😎 Good times in the Way-back Machine!
April Morris you have a nice name you have a very good way of expressing yourself. I like a woman who is spontaneous just as you what will it cost me to know more about you?
Pop culture is fascinating. I remember this song coming out, and it inspired a gigantic spike in sales and installations of CB radios in cars. It was all the rage for quite a while. Still remember cars with antennas mounted on the front then tied down in back because they were so long. I seem to recall the truckers getting a bit fed up with all the amateurs yacking about nothing on their air space. That aside, CW McCall did a great job with this - both creating and performing. Love his deep bass voice.
Those antennas were the 102" whips. I used one and had to be careful not to wipe out the lights at covered gas stations. At the time they were supposed to match the length of radio waves.
Back when CBs were 23 channels then 77/78 went to 40. A friend of the family had a base station eververy body in her family drove truck. She could get out to 45 miles away. And farther with "skip" to keep track of family.
God I miss the 70's!! Loved this song as a 10 year old girl! My friends and I would like get together with our bikes and do up a "Convoy" and cruise around pretending we were truckers on our Radio Shack Walkie Talkies! It was fun!
Hello Rosemary Ringer you have a very nice name. You have a very good way of expressing yourself.your profile caught my attention you have a very good combination of a female facial features I wonder what it will cost me to know more about you.
it gives the warm fuzzy memories of being a child in the 70s, the CB craze and the Trucker craze with films and tv show like smokey and the Bear. i was very young and my father had just sort of retired from years of working in the military and we were on like a 2 year long road trip living in a Volkswagen van and camping at national parks and things like that, when our van broke down in Oklahoma visiting some family so we settled there and my father got a job at a Truck Stop. this was around 77 and he worked there until his death in 97, he use to take me in to work with him all the time and i grew up around that Truck Stop and all the characters that worked there and drivers that always stopped in to fuel when they were passing through. it was a great childhood and that old 70s AM style country music was always in the background and i would go home and stuff like "The Dukes Of Hazzard" or "Hee Haw" or "Any Which Way But Loose" would be on TV and i felt like i was part of the world, these days it feels like all of Hollywood and most of the country hate normal smalltown country folks like this for no reason.
I am 54. I remember this song very well. To say it was huge is an understatement. EVERYBODY had a cb radio and this song got the craze going. Hard to believe that we communicated this way 40 yrs ago. Has to seem like the darkest of dark ages to those who were not there. The 70's need to come back but this time we get to bring our phones.
+Robert Miller Dont think I would bring the cell phone, maybe a GPS. As long as there is working phones at all rest stops and truck stops it can still work. The GPS would just make it a little easier.
+John Smith Absolutely. Maps need nothing more than the ability to be refolded after use. They never lose power or signal. Most people have no clue how to use one.
Songs like this got me into driving trucks.......my uncle played this the first time he took me from grand rapids mi to chicago the rail yards in 1991 and i had a full tummy of pop and jerky......i knew i was hooked and here 30 years later hes gone but im still hauling strong. Long live the back bone of our country.....its drivers.
I was in my teens and cutting wheat in Vernon, I use to listen to this song as we made our way from southeast Missouri to Vernon to begin the harvest. Probably listen to you a lot.
Still listening in 2024 any one else
Absolutely, 10/4.
One of my fav songs ever
@@bambijimper It brings teas to my eyes these days. The NY Boycott.
Yes sir 👍
LOL... I remember it on AM radio in High School. Got alot of airplay then and I was listening! 🙂
Bill Fries AKA “CW McCall” just passed at a care facility today, aged 93. Rest In Peace brother!
10-4 Rubber Duck it was a good run.
That's sad but at 93 he probably wasn't feeling to great
Rest In Peace CW McCall!
You were one of the best country singers in the world.
We never forget ... ❤
AMEN BROTHER HAMMERDOWN
I remember being a little kid and singing this song all the time.❤ Who else is still here in 2023???
❤🎉🎉🎉 still kicken
Right here Pal
My Dad was a Trucker..Still here, I was a CB’er as well ❤
I'm 55 yrs od today brother ❤ I was 7 yrs old when this came out❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember the song well . And the film ignited the C.B radio scene in the UK 🇬🇧. Great times great memories. 10.4.
I'm a Ozzie truck driver, and I was brought up on this song, love love love this song 😁👍👍👍🤙
Who all is still listing in 2020??? Give me a thumbs up
Henry Lopez no no
I remember this song growing up . convoy 2020
If I hear one more asshole write :WHO'S LISTENING IN ???" I will shit.
They brought up reinforcement from the Illinois national gauards
@@kevincharles4505 lmmfao.. Hey kevin... Who is listing in 2020😂😂
This was one of my dad’s favorite songs he was a truck driver for 30 years. We played this at his funeral.
Sorry for the loss of your father.
I bet he was a awesome man he will be missed
Gone but not forgotten
It's one of my favorite songs to
Sweet! I'm sure he was a real driver and not a "get your CDL in four weeks" knock off.
Years ago, I was in labor with my first child and my dad was driving me & hubby 100 miles to the nearest hospital. He got on the C.B. and before I knew it we were being escorted by what seemed like “a thousand screaming trucks.” I certainly was preoccupied but those wonderful men and women got us there safely and with more “congratulations” than I’ve ever heard, before or since. I still see every big rig captain as my own personal heroes. Thank you, Truckers ❤
Amen!
Ayo
Such an awesome story! When I was a kid my mom was single with 4 kids… she had a Cb radio and had help from truckers when i got sick! The good ole days! Sweet
Love it!!
That's a great story dear! Where did you live that you were 100 miles from the nearest hospital though?
I love this song. Traveling on 75 love it when this song comes on. Salute all our truckers ❤
I love how the people who weren't born in the 80's-90's are hating on this song, while the people who were, like me, love it. Brings back so many memories.
+Mango Studios I grew up in the 60's and was in my 20's in the 70's. I remember when the CB craze started, everybody had one and acted like they were truck drivers, it was only a short lived fad, really stupid and ridiculous, it lasted only about a year or so when everybody started to throw their CB's away, just like the ridiculous clothes of the time.
***** You're a 90's baby. Of course you do. This was the craze back then.
Mango Studios I'm a 90's kid and I LOVE this song, infact i like/love quite a few songs from the 80's backwards
Mango Studios I was 10 when this came out. I still love this song. I also liked the movie " Convoy " came out in 1978. If you haven't seen it , check it out.
ace frehley I've watched that. Just recently, actually. Pretty good movie.
This song and Smokey and the Bandit started the CB craze back in the late 70's. I know CBs had already been around for a long time prior to this song but it "popularized them in general population. Fun times.
This man passed away yesterday. Condolences to his family and friends. One of thee best songs being a trucker.
My daughter who is 18 and son who is 17 ASK for this song as we drive along!
Man those were the days. Everything is so complicated and full of circle speaking but this was the days of gold.
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Aww.. I miss when things were so much simpler, too.
@@djjones5715 yes indeed my friend
@@KALUPO78 pppppppp
@@carsonplayz8679 Well, Bill Fries (McCall) has you beat. Today is his 95th birthday!
#FreedomConvoy2022
Thank You Truckers from Belleville Ontario
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RIP CW McCall.
His song is being played more than ever in Canada as the convoy heads to Ottawa !
Freedom 2022
Breaker breaker 1-9 anyone have a 20 on the ferret head?
grew up down south. people up north don't remember opec or mandates back then. coors beer. adopto dad was from oklahoma, we had coors beer in Ga before it was legal. lol I am having fun.
That's awesom!
#HonkHonk #HoldTheLine Go Canada!!!!!
I don’t think we’ll ever see a performer using a CB radio live on stage again like that lol 😂 freakin classic
He was lip-synching to his recording of the song, which I don't call "live".
That's what he eventually led me to ham
CBD may be relevant here in the Future 2
So classy
LOVE THIS GUY
It was 1975 and I was 8 years old when this song came out. Talk shit about it all you want but this song was in the top 10 country and pop charts and at least this song tells a story and is not meaningless bullshit like Lil Wayne and that crappy auto tune rap that says absolutely nothing.
Thank you for saying that! I cant stand the bullshit rap.
+superman009720 well try listing to hopsin. he has a message and a good way to say it
+Kyle M ok let me listen to it thanks for the reference
+Kevin Hodge
I was 11 and down here in NZ it was a number one hit an we all played convoy and all dreamed of being truck drivers................all time classic tune rubber duck 10-4
Phill L - Hell yeah! Damn good song!!!
I remember this song when it came out as a child. Seems fitting for our time now.
I remember this, l and many college friends got CB's and put them in our cars. Great times were had by us.
Better times for sure. Rip CW.
for sure for sure.....nothin but truckers out there
I was growing up when this song was popular my dad drove back then God rest his soul
I was in High School. My Dad drove also. God rest his soul.
THIS SONG IS STILL A COUNTRY CLASSIC AFTER 45 YEARS.
The CB's were social media back in the day.
This song Brings back lots of memories for sure I’m still driving since 1979 at 18 years old with a chauffeurs license no CDL required didn’t exist drove a cab over tractor but now drive a conventional tractor but like everything else when the federal government deregulated the trucking industry they killed the good pay and destroyed the truckers wages and lifestyle now it’s a joke. Sad days little pay with to many miles high maintenance and regulated to death and now there going to bring back higher fuel prices so you can’t survive a dirty shame.
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look at all the CB songs they had in those days
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My dad trucked for 45 years. It's all he ever did. May he rest in peace, as of June 2nd, 2012. He fought in Korea, as well. 1950 to 52 I believe.
RIP, Korean War Veteran, he America moving!
God Bless your father's soul. My cousin was in the 1st Marine Division at Koto Ri one of the Frozen Chosin.
Rest In Peace
my father also was all over the country also in Korea from 1950 to 52 passed away in 1999
Bless your father's soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The Fact that CW is still alive and going at 92 just fills my heart
Amen.
nice
that is great
@@Buttermilkjug 93 ... He was born 15th November 1928 ...
Canada needs him now.
My dad was a trucker in the late 70's, early 80's and I spent two summers on the road with him. This song reminds me a lot about those days I spent on the road with my dad.
I don't know what everybody else thinks but I think this is a great song!!
I'm posting it to support the truckers, they're awesome
I don't CARE what anyone else thinks... this IS a great song. "The more things change....the more they stay the same". God bless.🇺🇸
Love that banjo...Good bless the USA..
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yes by golly for sure ,, you have great taste Darin , it is a great song and will be played for many a decade down the road 10-4 good buddy
Yeah it stirs something inside of me but makes me happy. Sad so much is buried in time. Kids especially ate losing out with modern day life! I also saw post saying kids don't motion for truckers to honk much anymore and truckers miss that
I can assure you that even in deepest, darkest West Cork, Ireland, for a period of about 6 months back in 1976, every young male with an Opel Kadett was driving around the bog roads saying "10-4 Good Buddy", "What's your 20?", "Roger-D" and "Mind the Shhmokies".
That's awesome!
LMFAO
So true!Thanks..that made me laugh out loud!
Opel Kadett. Perfect.
"Opel Kadett" yes, we had Rallye, and an Opel GT as well.
CW singing live, gotta respect that.
I'm still listenin in 2023
This song always makes me smile and tear up a little too. My much older brother, Bill, who passed away in 2015, had been a trucker for almost 20 years when he got me into CB radio as a teenager in 1973. When this song came out in '76 I was dumbfounded because the handle he had run back and forth across the country with for more than a decade was...you got it...Rubber Duck! RIP Big Brother. You may have gone 10-7 but you are still loved and missed very much.
God Bless all
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my older brother Joe...passed away in 2020 he was not a truck driver..but i still loved and miss him very much..he may be gone, but will never be forgotten by me!!!!
Man I got goosebumps reading this man
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This is the most American song i've ever heard
10-4 on that!👍✌
Let em truckers roll 10-4.....💖🙏
10-4, THE BEST SONG EVER WRITTEN !!👍
Damn Pam you ain't kidding take me back Kenworth hauling logs cabover Pete with a reefer on Jimmy hauling Hogs damn what has happened this country where did time go.
Ahhhh, I can smell jello & Mom's pot roast! 1975 was a good year for my family, takes me waaaay back! Happy thoughts to all 🥰🧚
Thank you Truckers 4 FREEDOM 🥰👍
I think this song is about to enjoy a new found popularity.
If you knew this song, you lived in the 70's.
This song is a 70's landmark!!. Classic. Iconic.
It was my favorite, when I was a little boy. I had the 45
Great times for sure.
I was born in the 1982 love this song
And the 1980's
This song is still relevant!!!
I was 13 when this song came out. I remember sitting in my dad's car,a 1971 Ford LTD listening to the CB radio. I'd talk on the CB for hours,at the time we all thought it was amazing. I'm 58 now, Dad's passed,the car is long gone but what I wouldn't give to go back in time to those days. Such simple pleasures.
Same here, I was 13 or 14 when this came out. I remember being at a party where someone had a CB radio and we tuned into the truckers we thought that was about the coolest thing we'd EVER seen! Imagine, talking to someone far away driving in a truck!!!
10-4 Rubber Duck, we've got a WORLD WIDE convoy!!!!
Worldwide Convoy 😊 Yep !
I just heard of C. W. McCall's passing a few minutes ago. I had to listen to this song again. I was 9 in 1975 when this song came out. My family and I loved it! Sure brings back memories! Catchy tune that always stuck in my mind. Time marches on! From Loudoun County,Va. 😇😇😇😇😇⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾😎😎😎😎😎
Reason I came here today, as well.....
My birthday is 9/11/66. I remember this song. Very catchy and unique with the CB rap.
Fitting for today, Freedom Convoy to Ottawa 2022, keep on trucking, Godspeed and God Bless
R.I.P part of my youth is gone..
Canada today!!!!!
Best line of the 70's; It was the Dark of moon on the 6th of June, an a Kenworth haulin logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a JImmy haulin hogs."
My daughter was about 3 years old when this song came on the radio SHE starts singing at the top of her lungs "John Boy." What little ones hear Now she's 46 and still loves it
We got a mighty John-Boy, rockin' through the night.
lol...When Love Rollercoaster by The Ohio Player's came out I thought they were saying Arnold Horshack.
Big O Truckin John Boy. What a time when the Waltons was on TV, and this was on the Movie Screen. My uncle took a bunch of us kids to see this movie. I think I was about 9. I can relate because I had no idea what a Convoy was. However, I had heard CB talk since birth. I had a T-shirt said, "What's You 20?" Finally, I learned what it meant about the 5th time I wore it. CB's were a bit of a fad but were used in real life by trucks and out on farms 🚜 .. No cell phones back then, and you had to be within a few miles of each other
Lots of static and very hard to understand. Most of the time, I couldn't. Honestly, I don't know how they learned all that. Then, it faded away... nearly all gone.
Haha, John Boy Walton the trucker. many people may not know the Walton's was a popular show about this time :)
So. Cute!
My dad was a truck driver and I used to go with him during summer time when I was out of school. We would listen to this and other trucker stuff.
All of it means so much more to me now because after my husband passed away, I decided to drive. I did it for five years from coast to coast and loved every bit of it!!
Beautiful
RIP CW McCall may your legacy live as long as your songs are played.
Man this chorus is so catchy stuck in my head still to this day. Great use of the F Major key that violin kicks ass. Deserves to be a number one hit ACROSS THE USA!
Yes let's make it go viral in honor the truckers who stand for freedom and singer who sang it
Too cool to be a 70's kid.
Could not get enough of this tune.
My dad was a truck driver for over 3p years,. His handle was Sundown. For the uninformed the cb radio handle (name) is how all truckers referred to each other.
When Sundown( my dad) went 10-7 in September of 2020, I had to notify all his truck driving friends. True to their nature his cell phone had them all listed under their cb handles. Dad this is one of the songs we use to listen to together, I miss you and think of you often. Keep On Truckin
Thank you Canadian Truckers. Lets go USA Truckers. Good Luck and God Speed.
Hey how are you doing today..?
Great song. Great memories. Life was great back then. Miss those years
Amen
Ahhhh, rose-colored glasses...
Those where the days when there where true truckers,no automatics, no GPS
Daddy used a Rand McNally Road Atlas. That was his GPS.
So true@@!!!
@@ceceliamarble1673 I did too. Found my way across the USA in new Western Stars. Good times.
How very true
@satbob smacl western star huh??? Good 4 you! That's a high dollar beauty! Your doing something right!
We grew up hearing this. I still love it!
Hey how are you doing today…?
After 46 years I still love this song and C.W.'s voice. Remember all the trucks runnin'.
Hello Deborah you have a very nice name have we meet before? You have a very good way of expressing yourself I wonder what it will cost me to know more about you ?
my dad was the greatest trucker ever!! 76 Mack cabover.. global van lines... I was 15 and spent my next few summers watching him put that thing where nobody else would put a car
CB's, man were they the rage. I had one, and what a blast it was, and in some ways, a whole lot more fun than any 'smartphone'.
Yes good ol 27 Mhz, I remember using it and in a small city there were lots of free channels, back then I had a 40 channel. In a large city it was so congested, this was in the late 80's.
Yep, I hear ya. Channel 19 was the truckers channel and I could always keep an ear out on where the 'bears' were, and if not the truckers, then there was always somebody out there who also know where they were hiding. In those days, they (The Police) could actually hide from you, but today, THAT, is against the law..........somebody might just caught for speeding.
Here the truckies channel was 5, and they would always talk about a double bubble, as in the lights on the top of the cop cars. or they would talk about a divvie van, as in the one they could lock you up in the back.
I say lets get a fox hunt goingNighthawk here
I know right??
I was in high school when I first heard this song. RIP RUBBER DUCK
R.i.P. Thank you for supporting the trucking industry.
i know, i am 44 years old, and i just heard this song for the first time last week and cant get it out of my head, love it
I LOVED this song back in the 70's! Had it on 8 track
and almost wore it out by playing it so much!
Does anybody remember Shirley and Squirrelly ?
@@maggieotsuka1266 Just the name; I just searched on it and just heard the "Hey Shirley" song for the first time.
Me too. I had to re listen to give songs before hearing this again.
I happened with us but the 45 record.. LOL 😂
A song from my childhood.
Brings back good memories.
I was a truck driver for 40 years and I was in a convoy in 1973 but when this song came out I played it for 2 years in a row ready to tow
Im only 12 years old and i love these old shows like smokey and the bandit dukes of hazzard convoy like all of em love em
I grew up on it all... smokey and the bandit etc.... check out Cannonball run!, you'll love it... I still love it at 42 bro :D
Are you guys ok?
Alrighty then, just making sure. :)
lol
+Jessie Moses oldies but goodies
this songs about to become an anthem for the freedom convoy 2022
Loved this song when I was a cb'er in Washington State, KFR1946 also known as the Lost Cause. Transmitted from Olympia. Had a kicker so could transmit as far as Idaho. Moved to Oahu, Hawaii and became a ham radio operator under call sign NH7ZD. Still listen to this song every now and then even in 2024.I was sad hearing about Bill Fries passing but U-Tube is still keeping his songs alive.
LOVE IT!!! I love "Wolf Creek Pass" by CW, too. Anything that begins with "Me and Earl" can't be all bad. But this song, along with CW's voice, will go down in history.
R.I.P. This clip was played in the mid 90s on a show called 70s Flashback. Suzanne Sommers hosted it just about the same time she did Step By Step. And around the time that VH-1 had reruns of The Midnight Special, America Bandstand. Solid Gold and The Sonny & Cher Show. VH-1 ran 70s Flashback from 1994 to 1999. Erik Estrada hosted after Suzanne left but he only did the final season or so. Leif Garrett was also hosting the show sometimes. But mostly Suzanne Sommers hosted.
P.S. Per another clip David Cassidy also hosted. And it was renamed 8 Track Flashback. My memory is fading but I used to watch this. I was between 13 and 18. 30 years have passed.
Definitely one of my all time favorites. They don't make music this way anymore. It would also almost impossible to make movies like that today.
RIP and thanks for the memories….
I just read of Mr. McCall's death. I absolutely love this song--I guess you could say its one of my guilty pleasures. My Dad was a long haul truck driver all of his adult life. When this song came out, I was in elementary school and my Dad would take me with him several times during my summer vacations. Of course, my Dad had a CB and we'd monitor it while driving. Occasionally, I'd get on and talk to some of the other truckers. I remember hearing this on the radio, and I loved it from the start. Especially because it mentions the "6th of June", which is my birthday. Along with Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear", this song takes me back to those care free days riding along with my Dad. RIP C.W. McCall.
"And 11 long haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro bus..." Great line...
when was the last time you even heard that word?
And here it is the 6th of June 2022, and I’m still loving this song, the Convoy is about to start, over 200 trucks is taking part.
R.I.P C.W Mc Call.
So an I
2024 here. I have always loved this song
RIP CW MCCALL!
,We have your albums on vinyl and are still enjoying them. My condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
Hello how are you doing today?
hubbby drove for 50 yrs lost him 8 yrs ago miss him so much
I'm sorry for you loss :(
He is with you Maam
Hey Man, I retired in 2015, drove Logging Trucks in the Northwest, my Dad was in the Korean War, Us Air Force B-52 Gunner, drove trucks in his earlier days, pass away in 2009. I sure our father's are in good hands, driving the Lord Potatoes Trucks. As my Mom would say every time you hear the Thunder coming from the Heaven, that the Lord Potatoes Trucks on the move again.
Keep on Trucking, somebody got to move this Great Country of our..
Think of it this way he may be actually driving long haul for Jesus where he is
I'm so so sorry.
I was an over the road trucker for 15 years loved all the trucker songs and country music a lot. Of good times on the road
One night I was going to My Sister's. The garbage on the CB was bad, so I turned it off but I started getting sleepy. I had to turn it back on. I broke in and the talk changed. Talking makes you alert. There was a guy traveling Northbound, like me. Thank goodness for the CB!!! IT has saved my life more than once!!
Hello how are you doing today?
The real Canadian national anthem
I grew up when hundreds of songs like this turned into memories of great times.
You could identify with songs for decades.
No more.
I'm lucky I grew up when I did.
No profanity, no racial slurs, no calling women b****** an ho's,. ..Just pure fun. When I hear songs like this it reminds me that my time on this Earth has truly come and passed. I thank God for the childhood I had. The memories I made, good and bad.
I remember that when I was working Wash,D.C. in USSS and I had a CB too, I hear there's a Major Convoy in Ottawa Canada NOw! Perfect song !
CANADA 2022 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦
Great song from a great time! I remember this playing constantly on the radio the summer of '76. Great time to be a 9-year old!
Great time to be a 12 year old and talking on my dad’s CB 🤣
I too was 9 years old in '76. I had what I recall was the the C.W. McHaul tractor trailer toy. Based on C.W. McCall, didn't realize that at the time. Had a lot of fun with that toy. It had a microphone attached to it with the speaker in the tractor. Good memories.
I grew up with CW McCall an honorary member of my Family. This brings back so many wonderful memories of my family roaming all over the Oregon and Northern California mountains together with this blasting out of the 8-track. 😎 Good times in the Way-back Machine!
Im from medford, oregon grew up with a c.b. in my hand, the 70s was the best.
How many years did he go on & singing this song & if cld do today wld it be like yesterday voice??
April Morris you have a nice name you have a very good way of expressing yourself. I like a woman who is spontaneous just as you what will it cost me to know more about you?
It is reassuring that history repeats itself! We will see excellent music like this again.
Pop culture is fascinating. I remember this song coming out, and it inspired a gigantic spike in sales and installations of CB radios in cars. It was all the rage for quite a while. Still remember cars with antennas mounted on the front then tied down in back because they were so long. I seem to recall the truckers getting a bit fed up with all the amateurs yacking about nothing on their air space. That aside, CW McCall did a great job with this - both creating and performing. Love his deep bass voice.
Those antennas were the 102" whips. I used one and had to be careful not to wipe out the lights at covered gas stations. At the time they were supposed to match the length of radio waves.
Back when CBs were 23 channels then 77/78 went to 40. A friend of the family had a base station eververy body in her family drove truck. She could get out to 45 miles away. And farther with "skip" to keep track of family.
God I miss the 70's!! Loved this song as a 10 year old girl! My friends and I would like get together with our bikes and do up a "Convoy" and cruise around pretending we were truckers on our Radio Shack Walkie Talkies! It was fun!
I was furious when my mom threw out our walkie talkies. I think I was 24 or 25 when that happened. lol
Happy 90th Birthday C. W. McCall
Canadian Convoy. Thats What Iam Talking About.
My grandpa was a trucker, and my youngest is a long hauler. This song connects me as a child to me as a mom of a trucker ❤️
I'm 56 years old, and I remember the CB craze and the "Convoy" movie. Yes, it was a big deal. I *love* this song! Just LOVE IT!
Hello friend, I hope you're doing ok??
Hello Rosemary Ringer you have a very nice name. You have a very good way of expressing yourself.your profile caught my attention you have a very good combination of a female facial features I wonder what it will cost me to know more about you.
God-Bless, all you Trucker' s. Thank's for all the hard work you do keeping our supplies rolling. 👍👍👍👍👍
it gives the warm fuzzy memories of being a child in the 70s, the CB craze and the Trucker craze with films and tv show like smokey and the Bear. i was very young and my father had just sort of retired from years of working in the military and we were on like a 2 year long road trip living in a Volkswagen van and camping at national parks and things like that, when our van broke down in Oklahoma visiting some family so we settled there and my father got a job at a Truck Stop. this was around 77 and he worked there until his death in 97, he use to take me in to work with him all the time and i grew up around that Truck Stop and all the characters that worked there and drivers that always stopped in to fuel when they were passing through. it was a great childhood and that old 70s AM style country music was always in the background and i would go home and stuff like "The Dukes Of Hazzard" or "Hee Haw" or "Any Which Way But Loose" would be on TV and i felt like i was part of the world, these days it feels like all of Hollywood and most of the country hate normal smalltown country folks like this for no reason.
Without them we would not have anything in the stores. Its about time we support them. God bless you ! 🙏😊
RIP
I am 54. I remember this song very well. To say it was huge is an understatement. EVERYBODY had a cb radio and this song got the craze going. Hard to believe that we communicated this way 40 yrs ago. Has to seem like the darkest of dark ages to those who were not there. The 70's need to come back but this time we get to bring our phones.
+Robert Miller Dont think I would bring the cell phone, maybe a GPS. As long as there is working phones at all rest stops and truck stops it can still work. The GPS would just make it a little easier.
+John Smith Maps had their place and got us where we needed to go but gps has us spoiled now.
es Robert you are right, but that is one invention I think has merit.
+John Smith Absolutely. Maps need nothing more than the ability to be refolded after use. They never lose power or signal. Most people have no clue how to use one.
+Robert Miller I would be happy with out cell phones, Just keep the GPS.
Songs like this got me into driving trucks.......my uncle played this the first time he took me from grand rapids mi to chicago the rail yards in 1991 and i had a full tummy of pop and jerky......i knew i was hooked and here 30 years later hes gone but im still hauling strong. Long live the back bone of our country.....its drivers.
We got the back door for those Canadian drivers.
Been listening to this song for almost 50 years and will til I die
10-4
My ex-husband and I were truckers for 19 years, and hearing this song makes my day better. I miss being on the road, my ex-husband not so much.
Maybe he feels the same way about you.
1975 and I was a DJ at KVWC in Vernon,Texas. This was one of the most requested songs..
I was in my teens and cutting wheat in Vernon, I use to listen to this song as we made our way from southeast Missouri to Vernon to begin the harvest. Probably listen to you a lot.
CW McCall was a dj to
remember the movie?
John Bates Shakey town?flag town? Help me out John,where are these places?
John, in 1976 I was DJ at WNAX in Yankton, SD! You're right this was on of the most requested songs & for two Weeks the No. 1 Song in America!
I’m a truck driver and always love this is what got me into truck divine love the CB talk.
Me too
This is "The Psychodelic Gypsy".., my Father drove for years., I lived this everyday..., THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES !!
Makes me wanna get into my lifted ‘68 Ford F-250, crank up this song and go wheeling with a convoy! 👍🤠