I had the privilege of actually talking to CW McCall and his wife face-to-face while they were traveling down Interstate 25 near Glorieta, New Mexico. He identified himself as the "Original Rubber  Duck" and of course I challenged him on it. I lived in Pecos, New Mexico, where the inspiration for the line "Peddlin Down Past Pecos-Town" in one of his later songs came from. He autographed two iron-ons for me, one of that said CONVOY with an animation and one with a toilet seat and a 10 code in it. My mother framed them, and I have them framed to this day. I later ran into him at Pecos River Campground run by my parents' friends Carl and Jill. He plopped his hat (the one you see him wear in this clip) on my head and  Carl took some pictures of us. I never knew what became of the pictures. The badges on the hat said Chicken Inspector as I recall. He explained how he did the bread commercials and that is where CW McCall was invented. As I recall his real name was Frye. The one thing i vividly recall, he was as real and down to earth as he appeared in any video clip, and the CB lingo was exactly how he talked in person. The only thing that made him a little different was the fact he had a hit song, otherwise he was the working middle-class. I was a senior at Pecos Independent Schools when this happened. I went on to eventually have a career as an air traffic controller, when my gift for gab and comfort zone with the air waves was due in part to my ability to communicate on the radio from being a CB radio hobbyist during that era. Meeting CW McCall at the height of his popularity was probably comparable to meeting Elvis or the Beatles.

RIP CW over and out

RIP CW McCall

I remember when this song convoy.  I really liked this song so well.  I played this song over and over again.  I was 14years old.  Now I'm 64 years old now.  Still like him to this day.

The 70's CB radio craze.

R. I. P. C. W. & Ralph Emery.

RIP C.W. McCall

Terrific song writer. So talented.  Convoy really took off. C.W. McCall will be greatly missed.

RIP Ralph Emory and now CW.

Good thing he adjusted that oscilloscope during the song chorus.  He avoided a near vocal technology disaster there.  😊☺️😁😂😉

G. O. A. T. 🐐🚛🚚🚒🚌🚎🚓🚓🚓🤠

Interesting props.. An Oscilloscope, a frequency counter, what looks like an old radio shack police scanner, a CB mic.. but no CB..

2021 Rules forever I'm c.w. McCall and all the country singer s they play on Bob f.m. forever promise to god. Steve fike s Steve Perry of journey and all the rock n roll singer s they play on Kool 108 forever promise to god. C.w. McCall king of country he created it. Country Rules forever I'll listen to country till I die promise to god 🙏. Country Rules forever. This is big Mac any body got there ears on 😁😁😁😁😁👍

Yeah, I used to work for the Statlers up until they retired as their monitor engineer, so I knew that....Glad you did too!!

C.W., come down here from your rig, lol. Where the cheese flows like a wine. Conway, bring it on son!

La mejor música del mundo

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I wonder whether this was Season 1 of Pop Goes the Country?  Don't remember hearing the Statlers in the overture.  Bill Fries bringing up some laboratory instruments for TV performance of:

CONVOY / C.W. McCALL
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE RUBBER DUCK / C.W. McCALL
Both Songs by William D. Fries Jr. and  Bernard F. Davis Jr. - American Gramaphone, SESAC

wasn't a particular surprise for the era.  My dream films about the Rubber Duck would be new scripts in line with the original song stories plus a new one co-written with the Leylands taking place after the survivors of the Atlantic crossing leave Japan, ideally co-produced by GMI Entertainment and released by Universal Pictures; the first:  "Convoy:  The 100,000-Mile Truck Drive, Part I," would begin in industrial Los Angeles near the San Pedro city limit before the Duck (ideal castmember:  Aaron Tippin) picks up a 54' Thermo-King® reefer full of foodstuffs bound for New York City.

Miss the good old days

Sing me a good old country song ❤