# There's always room in the Convoy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172 "2010-06-06T15:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/1 "2010-06-06T15:30:51Z")
\*Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June In a Kenworth, pullin’ logs Cabover Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs \* My favorite line comes later: _Well we shot the line, an’ we went for broke With a thousand screamin’ trucks And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus In a chartreuse microbus_ ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/2 "2010-06-06T17:30:11Z")
I remember it. I listened to Wolf Creek Pass not too long a\go, and liked it better. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/3 "2010-06-06T17:39:00Z")
It made me think of [Shriner’s Convention](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_tXzeiZAQ) and other Ray Stevens poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/4 "2010-06-06T17:51:51Z")
10-4, Rubber Duck ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/5 "2010-06-06T17:54:01Z")
Ya wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey? He’s haulin’ dynamite and needs all the help he can get. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/6 "2010-06-06T17:54:25Z")
That was my favourite song when I was nine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/7 "2010-06-06T19:08:01Z")
It’s on my workout music list. I still love it: but it sure could have done without the hokey chorus! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/8 "2010-06-06T19:33:21Z")
_Pig Pen, you want to back off them hogs? The smell is getting intense…_ Ok, that’s probably not the exact wording, but something like that. I remember the CB radio boom in the 70s. Bears and/or Smokey = cops, picture taker = cop w/radar. There was another trucker song with CB radio stuff, think it was called _White Knight_. Fun thread, brings back fond memories. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/9 "2010-06-06T23:05:17Z")
And the Red Sovine [tearjerker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY4BV14OZzQ): _The old CB was blarin’ away on channel 1-9 When there came A little boy’s voice on the radio line And he said Breaker 1-9 Is anyone there Come on back truckers And talk to Teddy Bear_ ---
**Author:** ![Beerman1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Beerman1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman1963)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/10 "2010-06-07T17:00:22Z")
Saw on tv or something that C.W. Mccall is also Mannheim Steamroller I think.(cite needed) ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/11 "2010-06-07T18:20:04Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > Saw on tv or something that C.W. Mccall is also Mannheim Steamroller I think.(cite needed) McCall was stage name of William Fries who wrote the lyrics to Convoy (and most of his other songs). Chip Davis, who founded Mannheim Steamroller, wrote the music. ---
**Author:** ![Beerman1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Beerman1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman1963)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/12 "2010-06-08T00:48:38Z")
Thank you for clearing that up. It always bothered me to say "you know…"that whole urban legend thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/13 "2010-06-08T01:00:39Z")
> [@Beerman1963](#): > > Saw on tv or something that C.W. Mccall is also Mannheim Steamroller I think.(cite needed) The C.W. McCall character was created for a series of bread commercials: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wyOdodH9LN8/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/wyOdodH9LN8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque We watched the romacne bloom between CW and Mavis, a waitress at the Old Home Filler up and Keep on Truckin’ Cafe over about six months or so of commercials. The voice of CW was the owner of the advertising company, Bill Fries. The music was done by Chip Davis and the group that would soon become Mannhiem Steamroller. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/14 "2010-06-08T04:58:27Z")
Let’s not forget [“Classified”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWClsaKmo5Y). If you ever grew up in a small town this song rings incredibly true. ---
**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 8, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/15 "2010-06-08T05:26:37Z")
Nice to see so many McCall fans! I’ve been a fan since the 70s and Convoy. Another fun fact: Bill Fries used to be the mayor of Ouray, Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/16 "2010-06-08T06:58:08Z")
Well, I like trucks too and I’ll take pictures of almost anything, but on the whole I prefer soda machines. If you kick just right at the soda machine you can get a free drink, whereas this rarely happens with a truck, particularly if the trucker is watching. So I suggest more pop songs about soda machines. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/17 "2010-06-08T08:15:44Z")
Wasn’t there a novelty song about Shirley and Squirrelry that involved CB lingo? I was practically in utero\* at the time, but I seem to recall this… \*_Okay, okay: late 70’s. I still lived in my mom’s house, which was pretty close to her uterus most nights…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/18 "2010-06-08T15:36:54Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Wasn’t there a novelty song about Shirley and Squirrelry that involved CB lingo? I was practically in utero\* at the time, but I seem to recall this… > > \*_Okay, okay: late 70’s. I still lived in my mom’s house, which was pretty close to her uterus most nights…_ [Yup.](http://www.top40db.net/Lyrics/?SongID=76381) Did anyone else here ever use a CB just for fun? I did, way back when I was in sixth grade. We had a CB in the house, and I kept it in my room. Talked to a heck of a lot of cool people back then. My handle was Six Stringer, because I was learning the guitar. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/19 "2010-06-08T15:41:44Z")
Yeah, I had to sit out in the car though. I would talk to a bunch of other kids from my Jr. High. ---
**Author:** ![rpinrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@rpinrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rpinrd)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172/20 "2010-06-08T18:07:53Z")
Oh man I remember that song. Something about a “bear in the air” too. I remember _begging_ my mother to buy me that album when they advertised it on tv. She did, and it was actually the very first vinyl I ever owned. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-always-room-in-the-convoy/542172.md?page=2)