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Actually, Chip Davis was the guy who created C.W. McCall - the character portrayed by William Fries.

Davis wrote the music and lyrics, William Fries wore the costume and did the singing.

[TN4Liberty]

You are correct, hence the term, dead right.

[Hi Heels]

*fires up the stereo*

Bears to the left;
bears to the right
We didn't have no place to go.
They had us backed up
clean to the shore,
And them cab-over
Petes don't float.
I says, "Pig Pen,
I got me a good idea.
Them Friends a' Jesus
gonna save us!
"So praise the Lord
and Mister Ford,
And follow that micra-bus,
ten-four.