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Audio clips at link. "Mercy sakes looks like we got us a convoy". One thing I learned from working in my Dad's warehouse back in those days, taking care of the shipping and receiving, if you want to get an idea of how the economy was doing at the time, ask a truck driver.
1 posted on 10/05/2014 10:09:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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BTTT!


2 posted on 10/05/2014 10:18:47 PM PDT by OddLane
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Convoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ


3 posted on 10/05/2014 10:19:39 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Bump


4 posted on 10/05/2014 10:21:36 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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Still my favorite C.W. McCall tune
6 posted on 10/05/2014 10:28:52 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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Everybody's Truckin'--The Modern Mountaineers (1937)
7 posted on 10/05/2014 10:30:38 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Didn’t keep quite as busy as Chip Davis, the Convoy co-writer.


8 posted on 10/05/2014 10:30:52 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. -- Churchill)
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I was a CB base unit geek in 7th grade well before this was a fad.


9 posted on 10/05/2014 10:31:16 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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As far as "Trucker Anthems" go, Six Days on The Road is top of the heap, as far as I am concerned.
10 posted on 10/05/2014 10:35:54 PM PDT by Rodamala
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11 posted on 10/05/2014 10:37:54 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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I remember a song about a cop that pretended to be a homo on the cb and it distracted the truckers and they started speeding and then he pulled them over. Can’t remember the name of the song.


16 posted on 10/05/2014 10:59:57 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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... if you want to get an idea of how the economy was doing at the time, ask a truck driver.

I would but they all seem to speak another language: Russian, spanish, etc.

23 posted on 10/06/2014 2:58:23 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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What about Cleadus Maggard’s White Knight & Kentucky Moon Runner? LOL. I liked McCall’s Wolf Creek Pass & Four Wheel Drive better than Convoy


24 posted on 10/06/2014 3:30:32 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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British version, Convoy GB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-FZZ7ye7h8


26 posted on 10/06/2014 4:28:07 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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My handle was “White Shadow”. I drove a white 78 Ford pick-up back in 1986.


28 posted on 10/06/2014 4:35:52 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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C.W. McCall was amusing as a novelty act, but the classic, all-time GREAT trucking song is not his:

Dave Dudley, Six days on the Road.

30 posted on 10/06/2014 4:41:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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LOL those were the days!

My husband still has the old tin trash can at his mom’s home of all the trucker codes for CB when it was all the rage. It helped that his grandpa had been a trucker.


32 posted on 10/06/2014 4:49:34 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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I used to love flying down the road talking on the CB. What a gas. We had a Jeep CJ5 with one of those 6 ft whip antennas. LOL!


36 posted on 10/06/2014 8:40:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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My favorite song of his was “Wolf Creek Pass” makes me laugh every time I hear it....


37 posted on 10/06/2014 8:44:42 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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Obama is definitely a “good buddy.”


48 posted on 10/06/2014 5:56:23 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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His follow up version of a convoy across Europe was pretty funny.


50 posted on 10/06/2014 6:10:43 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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