The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 12/27/2009
"I hate somebody else paying my dues." Background With 'Cross of Iron' roundly ignored at the box office and Peckinpah out of pocket to the tune of the $90,000 he put into the ailing production, it was imperative that he direct something commercial. That something was 'Convoy' . Its source material was a novelty song by one-hit-wonder C.W. McCall. Its target audience were the undiscerning...
wjd8260 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 12/25/2009
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish a very Merry Christmas to everyone at Absolute Radio and to each and every one of you, my friends who are kind enough throughout the year to indulge me my daily ramblings. The alias of composer Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller was among the pioneers of neo-classical electronic music, emerging as one of the driving forces behind the New Age phenomenon. Born...
Little Nuances (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Imagine playing some new version of Pictionary (called "Electronic Pictionary Man Game") and being asked to draw Lindsay Lohan. Or playing another game in which you try to get your teammates to guess the name of a song that came out before they were even born. Or yet another game in which you have to guess which personality trait best describes another player. Actually, all three scenarios...
TennesseeTicket.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Of the seventeen Tennessee Senate seats up for election in 2010, only a couple so far are known to be open seats. One of these is in District 17, where Sen. Mae Beavers is...
flightless hag (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
You know, there are so many movies and tv shows that make fun of us nerds who make mix cd's - nick and nora's infinite playlist is the most recent. But I know it's a casual throwaway to point out that a boy/girl is a stalker-dweeb. It's so wrong. Mix tapes are awesome and show a real attention to detail that most people just don't get. I make mix tapes for my favorite beaus - my boys. I make one every...
Badder Example (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Things on my mind recently… Debate over soon-to-be-banned swimsuits worn by Phelps and Biedermann http://tr.im/uAzz Why don't they swim naked and settle everything? # The sports guy doesn't wear pants. Film at 11:00 http://tr.im/uB17 Bio of WTVM's Dave Platta # Now the woman that called 911 on Gates is having a press conference. If only media-whoring was as [...]
Les Jones (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Four Kern’s bread TV commercials. Number 4 name-drops Etowah and features CB radios. Number 2 includes gratuitous use of “beaver.” History of the commercials here. “Turns out the TV commercial was performed by A.J. Trucker and was a take-off on Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Cafe by C.W. McCall of Convoy fame. I did [...]
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/04/2009
Over at Sergio Valente and the Ground-Rule Double (I may have this slightly wrong), Dennis Cozzalio revels in the sand, dust, clouds, and sheer orneriness of Sam Peckinpah's trucker road show Convoy in HD. This is a movie I have...
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 04/03/2009
Director: Sam PeckinpahStarring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, J D Kane, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, Seymour Cassel, Brian DaviesRunning Time: 100 minutesScore: 7 / 10This review by GavnoThe angry, rebellious mood of the post Watergate 1970s, the CB radio craze, and the romanticized image of Truckers as direct descendants of the American cowboy were made to
Corrente (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Well, I solved a mystery today. I thought this song was perhaps a Euro disc by Marty Robbins. Turns out it's another favorite singer of mine, C.W. McCall: Night Hawk lyrics We'd worked ourselves senseless Been bustin' down fences Drivin' dry cattle, no water in sight As we sat 'round the fire And cursed the barbed wire A stranger broke into our light Not knowin' no better Some fool went for leather...
Martin Klasch (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Robert Crumb CW McCall - Convoy ---
Doc Rampage (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
C. W. McCall was best known for his hit song Convoy which introduce America to the wondrous --if short-lived-- world of CB radio songs. Has ever man put pen to paper and created such sublime imagery? Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck Uh, you wanna back off them hogs 10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here But there is so much more to C. W. McCall. There's...
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
(c.w. mccall, bill fries, chip davis) One time when i's growin' up -- it was when i's
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
(c.w. mccall, bill fries, chip davis) Come ride with me cowboys I'll tell you
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
The citizens’ band was first marked out on the radio spectrum shortly after World War II. The idea was to permit radio communication for private, individual use, although few people were able to take advantage of it in the early days because the technology was bulky and hard to operate. By the 1960s, however, transistors [...]
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