Posted on 03/06/2020 10:53:16 AM PST by Krosan
I'm the best pal you boys ever have.
I like Wolf Creek Pass better.
Yep. Or Sloan...
But it doesn’t have these awesome cars.
I’m a weird music appreciator. I grew up in the horrible Soviet Union and Convoy was the first American movie allowed withing 10 years and one I saw. Previous ones approved were the Sound of Music and Spartacus. One per 10 years.
I looked it up and to my surprise Spartacus was 1960. I saw it on TV.
So yeah, this was the other American movie that was allowed and I saw the re-run.
The third was the Sound of Music and that was way before my time (but people were watching it 4 times a row), so basically only 3 American movies were allowed in occupied lands and Convoy was awesome.
Me and my cousin had worked all summer and had some money. Even though it was a double price movie, after we came out we went and bought the tickets again right then.
It really didn’t work out well for comrade Brezhnev, as allowing us to see the Convoy showed us how awesome America is.
In a Kenworth, Haulin Logs
Never heard of it. Foreign film or something?
The American Way of Cold War.
We bomb you with McDonald’s burgers, Levi’s blue jeans and Hollyweird.
Thanks for that link. I learned a tidbit I never knew before:
Like most musical acts, C.W. McCall toured the country, with Bill singing the words of C.W. and the "Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Boys" playing the music. In reality, the “Boys” were Chip Davis and an eclectic mix of musicians, who spent their non-C.W. McCall time recording albums of Chip’s music. Chip was a pioneer of “New Age” music, and his albums, recorded under the group name of “Mannheim Steamroller”, were also successful. But the fact that Chip Davis was the music behind C.W. McCall was not a well-known fact.
I saw that can’t see, also.
It was a technical difficulty when I posted it, probably.
I meant “Convoy”
I’ll try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
CW McCall aka Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller.
Thanks; I did have a YT look. But never saw it back when it was at the movies or on Pay-TV, or whatever.
Bill Fries was C.W. McCall, and he sang and wrote the lyrics. Chip Davis wrote the music and played in the band.
You must have thought Coors beer was really something special?
I never left Estonia. I saw how it changes from real lack of food to plenty of food and now we complain here about the first world problems.
Forgotten song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGnQnC9zRs
... but yeah. The beer in stores was full of fat thingies, like thingies making it rotten.
I didn’t drink beer yet at that time, but I know it was rotting.
... sittin' out behind the jail.
“I like Wolf Creek Pass better.”
Way up on The Great Divide, trucking on down the other side.
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