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In 1955 , Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" at Sun Records in Memphis. In 1957 , the musical "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opened on Broadway. In 1975 , the C.W. McCall single "Convoy" went gold in the US. In 1980 , Dolly Parton's first movie, "9 to 5," opened nationwide. In 1985 , country singer Johnny Paycheck was arrested for shooting a man during a fight in Hillsboro, Ohio. He...
I caught a few minutes of a hilarious television program currently running on CMT called 20 Great Redneck Moments . One of the moments centers around the success of the song “Convoy” by C.W. McCall. If you are older than 40, then you remember the song. It went to number one in January of 1976 and it featured McCall carrying on a conversation over a CB radio in an almost rap-like fashion. The started...
You asked for 'em, you got 'em. Reader Interaction, how I love thee! Cheesy Songs of the '70s (picked for pure cheese quality alone): 1. Run Joey Run - David Geddes 2. Half Breed - Cher 3. The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace 4. Crazy Horses - The Osmonds 5. Convoy - C. W. McCall Favorite Places I've Visited: 1. Colonial Williamsburg - Williamsburg, Virginia 2. St. Paul's Cathedral - London, England...
In Trucking Country (£17.95, Princeton Press), the American academic Shane Hamilton contends that, in considering the free market orientation of American politics over recent decades, the hit…
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Monday 8 September 2008. 08:04:00 Rubber ducked CB RADIO has received an upgrade after years of providing truckers with a reason to talk bollocks across the airwaves. In the mid-seventies every kid and his puppy were chatting in CB talk after the popular beat combo artist C.W....
.... since I spent the better part of this evening picking okra with my Sainted Mother, I feel a great need to get back to my 'roots', so to speak....... and well, nothing really gets to the core of my...
While we wait for Michael - King of the Friday Five - to post his latest (Michael - you okay'?), I pose one question to you all… Why did I have a vivid dream about “Convoy” singer C.W. McCall the other night? The dream: I was reading an article about a new album or a new [...]
Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip and then docked at the international space station today, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.
I found this one at
Salome's Corner
:
Music Meme:
Look at
these Billboard charts
for the five calendar years you were in high school. Choose the song(s) that was your a) fave then, b) fave now, c) worst overall.
Click on the titles to listen.
1975
~ Darla starts high school
THEN
"Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet
.
NOW
"Killer Queen" by Queen
WORST
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"...
I'm in Omaha for the punk rock reunion, and having a great time, though it's certainly strange to see all of these people more than 20 years later. It seems all of us skipped our high school reunions, and I'm amazed at how many people, like me, traveled long distances to be here. Last night after Apathy practice we all went to Brother's Lounge, and it freaked me out to see all of these legends of
When I was a kid, my heroes were, at the very least, deserving of adoration. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cheap Trick, Dan Pastorini (the one non-musician of the bunch) – the one thing they had in common was that they were immensely talented at what they did. Some would say that they were [...]
Fun Monday Swampy Style Here is what she asks of us: Post something about the ABC's. I might have mentioned that I love music. Here are the ABCs of my iPod. As you we\ill see, I like a variety of...
All media junkies have either Poynter or Romenesko bookmarked in their Internet browsers. Those who barely pay attention to the media, let alone stories about the media, the Poynter Institute's...
