Not to hijack, but following that link reminded me of Jim Stafford’s “Wildwood Weed,” which led me to some video of Stafford playing “Malagueña,” which led to Charo playing “Malagueña,” which led to Charo playing “Bolero,” “Caliente,” and “Recuerdos de la Alhambra.”
Like Wikipedia, YouTube leads to some awesome… convoys.
Have you heard Roy Clark play Malagueña? Wowzers.
Y’all make twelve* cotton-pickers I’ve caught tonight
From the front door of that White Knight.
Forty miles over the speed limit, you boys gonna be here awhile…
Do truckers still use CBs & speak in that lingo?
That’d be a Kojak with a Kodak, good buddy.
I had one of these when we lived near the I-84/I-684 interchange.
Yes, I ran across him right after Stafford. I prefer Charo.
Moving from MPSIMS to CS, where I suspect additional intervention will ensue.
I shortened the quote from the song in the OP. I realize this is a little late, but the rule here is that if you quote from a song, please don’t use more than about one verse and link to the rest. Thanks.
I keep reading this as Red Sonja, which made the song on You Tube a trifle surreal.
I think The Onion sums it up best: “Carter to Congress: ‘Give me a 10-20, good buddy.’”
My folks always had the kitchen radio tuned to country music (WMZQ) so I had to listen to that song many a morning at breakfast.
Now finish your Billy Beer and Let’s whip inflation!
While watching some of the YouTube videos, I read that Mr. Fries is still living there. He’s 82. Time marches on.
I’ve many happy memories of listening to CW McCall LPs with my dad. His CB handle was “Starduster”; mine was “R2D2.”
Ah, good memories. Born in '67, and my dad owned a cb shop back in the 70’s, where he sold and repaired them. He started a CB club at the local high school and we’d have their meetings in the big room in the basement of the store. I sure miss those days.
My 8-year-old son, now, is a Smokey and the Bandit fanatic, and it’s been funny to watch it with him and hear the lingo again.
By the way, my handle was ‘Small Change’, my dad was ‘Chief Joseph’, and mom was ‘Whispering Wind’, which I always used to tease her about, with a little sophomoric humor.
These days, truckers would think that’s an FBI sting.
Billy Beer, wow I remember a CB promotion with a give away of Revell models of Billy Carter’s pickup truck named Redneck Power. The 70s were twisted.
Yes, they do. The boyfriend bought a van at state surplus and it came with one.
I built that model! 
Man, am I having flashbacks (and feeling old). “Convoy” was the first 45 which I bought (I was 11, I think). I still have it (as well as “Teddy Bear”), though both are in sorry shape.
My dad had a CB radio in the car, which was mostly used in the name of speeding when we were on vacation. I was allowed to talk on it occasionally (my handle, which is sort of mortifying now, was “Frankfurter”).
Me, too. I first remember listening to it on a jukebox when I was 8 years old. For some reason I was with my father at lunch in a cafeteria–it’s one of the few times in my life that I remember being alone with him before my parents divorced a few months later. 
Does anyone remember the appearance on Johnny Carson? If I remember correctly CW McCall did the ‘song’ from a cb in a jeep parked on stage. My memory is of him with the door open, one foot inside the jeep, talking into microphone
