# Happy Convoy Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191 "2014-06-06T12:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/1 "2014-06-06T12:41:21Z")
_Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c’mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy …_ Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin’ logs Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs We was headin’ for bear on I-one-oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town I says, "Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck. “And I’m about to put the hammer down.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/2 "2014-06-06T12:44:56Z")
Till all are one! … What? Wrong Convoy? Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/3 "2014-06-06T21:43:05Z")
Damn! Missed the Jesus freaks in the chartreuse microbus. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/4 "2014-06-06T22:04:24Z")
Ten-four, Pig Pen, what’s yer twenty? OMAHA?? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there for sure! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/5 "2014-06-06T23:01:07Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Ten-four, Pig Pen, what’s yer twenty? > OMAHA?? So why the Hell didja follow us to New Jersey? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/6 "2014-06-06T23:02:14Z")
Hi! I’m the guy with the Annoying Real Life Fact that will make you say **Really, cool!** or **I knew that** or **Who gives a @$#%!** : “Convoy” was written and performed by C.W. McCall, whose real name is Chip Davis, who is the founder and driving force behind Mannheim Steamroller, which means if Convoy hadn’t provided the seed money for MS, there would be approximately 51,600 fewer Xmas songs on the radio every year. Hey, quit throwing things. I’m outta here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/7 "2014-06-06T23:55:53Z")
Actually, that’s not quite true. C. W. McCall’s real name is Bill Fries. He used to be an advertising executive, until he hooked up with Chip Davis to record a bunch of McCall albums and the Mannheim stuff. Other annoying but fun facts: Bill Fries used to be the mayor of Ouray, Colorado (a town he sang about in at least one of his songs–“Riverside Slide.”) “C. W. McCall” originated as the name of the truck driver in a series of commercials for Old Home Bread, which Fries was the ad exec on. Mavis also appeared in these ads. Here’s the video: [Old Home is Good Buns commercial - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYetCEFomU) It features Fries’ vocals, and an early version of “Old Home Fill’er Up and Keep On a’Truckin’ Cafe.” Bill Fries is still alive - he’s in his 80s now, and last I heard was doing well. (I’ve been a McCall fan since the mid '70s. I’ll bore you stiff with trivia if you let me. ) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/8 "2014-06-07T00:08:47Z")
^ I was misinformed. :smack: Thanks for setting me straight. What’s your percentage on my bar bets? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/9 "2014-06-07T00:51:19Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Damn! Missed the Jesus freaks in the chartreuse microbus. They’re with the Suicide Jockey. He’s hauling dynamite and he needs all the help he can get. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/10 "2014-06-07T03:32:15Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > They’re with the Suicide Jockey. He’s hauling dynamite and he needs all the help he can get. Ah. I’d wondered. Did they ever get haircuts btw? Oh well They gone. Bye bye. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/11 "2014-06-07T03:51:35Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve told this story elsewhere on this board, but it bears repeating in this particular thread. “Convoy” is only a bit player in it, but I thought it might bring a smile anyway. I was DJ-ing at a medium-market country station at the height of “Convoy”'s success on the charts. Have you ever had the experience when you’re just about to say something, and then at the very last minute you decide to say it a different way? Sometimes, you end up with an unfortunate combination of the two. In back announcing C.W. McCall’s song, I had planned to say “We want to send that one out to all you truckers out there.” Then I had a last-minute notion to say instead “…all you fellas who drive truck.” You can guess how it actually came out! I did the only thing you can do under the circumstances…I carried on as if absolutely nothing was wrong. I didn’t get a single phone call, and I know people were listening, as the station I was on was the top-rated station in the market at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/12 "2014-06-07T11:25:36Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’ve told this story elsewhere on this board, but it bears repeating in this particular thread. “Convoy” is only a bit player in it, but I thought it might bring a smile anyway. > > I was DJ-ing at a medium-market country station at the height of “Convoy”'s success on the charts. > > Have you ever had the experience when you’re just about to say something, and then at the very last minute you decide to say it a different way? Sometimes, you end up with an unfortunate combination of the two. > > In back announcing C.W. McCall’s song, I had planned to say “We want to send that one out to all you truckers out there.” > > Then I had a last-minute notion to say instead “…all you fellas who drive truck.” > > You can guess how it actually came out! > > I did the only thing you can do under the circumstances…I carried on as if absolutely nothing was wrong. > > I didn’t get a single phone call, and I know people were listening, as the station I was on was the top-rated station in the market at the time. So you said “all you trellas”? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/13 "2014-06-10T20:20:16Z")
An older couple on the road with the radio on— Radio: " . . . We want to send this one out to all you fuckers out there,"…Convoy starts playing Woman: “Did he just say fuckers?” Man: “No, he said truckers.” Woman: “I’m pretty sure he said fuckers.” Man: “He said truckers! TRUCKERS! You can’t say fuckers on the radio!” Woman: “I know you can’t say fuckers on the radio. Do you think I don’t know you can’t say fuckers on the radio? That’s why I asked.” Man: “Well he didn’t. God, Doris, you’ve always had a dirty mind.” Woman: “Fuck you, Pete.” ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/14 "2014-06-10T21:51:03Z")
> [@Thin\_Ice](#): > > An older couple on the road with the radio on— > > Radio: " . . . We want to send this one out to all you fuckers out there,"…Convoy starts playing > > Woman: “Did he just say fuckers?” > > Man: “No, he said truckers.” > > Woman: “I’m pretty sure he said fuckers.” > > Man: “He said truckers! TRUCKERS! You can’t say fuckers on the radio!” > > Woman: “I know you can’t say fuckers on the radio. Do you think I don’t know you can’t say fuckers on the radio? That’s why I asked.” > > Man: “Well he didn’t. God, Doris, you’ve always had a dirty mind.” > > Woman: “Fuck you, Pete.” ThIS CRACKED ME UP.THANK YOU:D ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/15 "2014-06-11T02:06:30Z")
I would be delighted if such a conversation actually took place in the wake of my slip! Thanks for a good laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/16 "2014-06-11T14:21:00Z")
Thanks guys. You never know, it might have. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/17 "2016-06-06T17:23:27Z")
Happy Convoy day…again. Anybody got their ears on, come on? ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/18 "2016-06-06T17:37:51Z")
10-2 JAQal, what’s your 20? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/19 "2016-06-06T17:40:56Z")
10-4, good buddy! Not sure what it says about me that I thought about this _before_ I saw this post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191/20 "2016-06-06T17:42:21Z")
10-4, Good Buddy. Watch out for them bears in the air, you copy?? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-convoy-day/690191.md?page=2)