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 Who Is C.W. McCall?

C.W. McCall is not a real person. "C.W. McCall" isn't the name of the group that recorded the music. C.W. McCall is the nom de chanteur of Bill Fries, an advertising man who created the character of C.W. McCall.

In 1972, while working for the Omaha advertising firm of Bozell Jacobs, Bill Fries created a television campaign for the Old Home Bread brand of the Metz Baking Company. The advertisements told of the adventures of truck driver C.W. McCall, his dog Sloan, and of the truck stop that McCall frequented, The Old Home Café. Bill based the character and his environment on his own upbringing in western Iowa. The commercials were very successful. So successful, that the Des Moines Register published the air times of the commercials in the daily television listings.

From those commercials came the first of the C.W. McCall songs, named after the restaurant: "Old Home Fill-er Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe;". While Bill provided the lyrics to the song and the voice of C.W. McCall, his collaborator Chip Davis wrote the music. Soon C.W.'s first album ? Wolf Creek Pass ? was released, whose title song was a misadventure of a truck with brake failure.

C.W. McCall's popularity reached its peak in January 1976, when "Convoy" ? from his second album, Black Bear Road ? reached the number one position on both the pop and country charts of Billboard.




<Dir>C.W. MCcall - Black Bear Road -192k
<Dir>C.W. MCcall - CW MCcall & Company - 192k
<Dir>C.W. MCcall - Greatest Hits - 320k
<Dir>C.W. MCcall - Roses For Mama - 192k
<Dir>C.W. MCcall - Rubber Duck - 192k
<Dir>C.W. MCcall - Wolf Creek Pass - 192k


01 - Black Bear Road.mp3
02 - Convoy.mp3
03 - Ghost Town.mp3
04 - Green River.mp3
05 - Lewis And Clark.mp3
06 - Long Lonesome Road.mp3
07 - Mountains Of My Mind.mp3
08 - Oregon Trail.mp3
09 - The Silverton.mp3
10 - Write Me A Song.mp3
C. W. McCall - Black Bear Road.m3u
C. W. McCall - Black Bear Road.nfo
C. W. McCall - Black Bear Road.sfv

01 - City Of New Orleans.mp3
02 - Flowers On The Wall.mp3
03 - Hobos Lullaby.mp3
04 - I Wish There Was More That I Could Give.mp3
05 - Milton.mp3
06 - Outlaws And Lone Star Beer.mp3
07 - Sivler Cloud Breakdown.mp3
08 - The Cowboy.mp3
09 - The Little Things In Life.mp3
10 - Wheels Of Fortune.mp3

01 - Convoy.mp3
02 - The Silverton.mp3
03 - Four Wheel Drive.mp3
04 - Wolf Creek Pass.mp3
05 - Classified.mp3
06 - There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll).mp3
07 - Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe.mp3
08 - Crispy Critters.mp3
09 - 'Round The World With The Rubber Duck.mp3
10 - Black Bear Road.mp3
11 - Roses For Mama.mp3
12 - Aurora Borealis.mp3

01 - I Dont Know And I Dont Care.mp3
02 - Livin Within My Means.mp3
03 - Old Glory.mp3
04 - Roses For Mama.mp3
05 - Take My Duds To The Junkman.mp3
06 - The Battle Of New Orleans.mp3
07 - The Gallopin Goose.mp3
08 - The Only Light.mp3
09 - Watch The Wildwood Flowers.mp3

01 - 'Round The World With The Rubber Duck.mp3
02 - Audobon.mp3
03 - Super Slab Showdown.mp3
04 - Windshield Wipers In The Rain.mp3
05 - Sing Silent Night.mp3
06 - Ratchetjaw.mp3
07 - Nishnabotna.mp3
08 - Two-Way Lovin'.mp3
09 - Camp Bird Mine.mp3
10 - Niobrara.mp3

01 - Wolf Creek Pass.mp3
02 - Night Rider.mp3
03 - Classified.mp3
04 - Old Thirty.mp3
05 - Ive Trucked All Over This Land.mp3
06 - Four Wheel Drive.mp3
07 - Rocky Mountain September.mp3
08 - Old Home Filler Up And Keep On.mp3
09 - Sloan.mp3
10 - Glenwood Canyon.mp3


From Rubber Duck Inc.