Music CD - C.W. McCall: C.W. McCall - Greatest Hits

	Music CD: C.W. McCall - Greatest Hits Artist: C.W. McCall List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $6.40 Your Save: $ 5.58 ( 47% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville
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Tracks: 1. Convoy 2. The Silverton 3. Four Wheel Drive 4. Wolf Creek Pass 5. Classified 6. There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll) 7. Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe 8. Crispy Critters 9. 'Round The World With The Rubber Duck 10. Black Bear Road 11. Roses For Mama 12. Aurora Borealis
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042282579324 Label: Mercury Nashville Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mercury Nashville Release Date: 1993-09-21 Studio: Mercury Nashville
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The best CD when traveling to Colorado Comment: I was so excited when I saw this in CD, when we were kids we listened to the 8 track on many trips to Colorado. It is a combination of songs that will hit almost every emotion. Customer Rating: Summary: What a great find! Comment: Back in high school, yes too many years to be counting!!! This was one that we enjoyed listening to. Lots of fun. I've now introduced my teenage boys to these fun musical stories, and they are played over and over and OVER!!! Nice to have a family CD in the car that everyone enjoys!!! Fun entertainment for the kids and adults alike. Looking for the rest of the songs to be released as well!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Fun and interesting songs Comment: C.W. McCall (nope, there was no one in the band with that name) was the creation of Billy Dale Fries. The idea for the group and the songs came from a series of advertising features Fries created for the Metz Baking Company, that included a trucker named C.W. McCall! Well, the rest, as they say, is history! Combining the work of Billy Fries, Chip Davis (of Mannheim Steamroller fame) and a number of other talents, C.W. McCall produced a number of songs that were quite popular in their time. I must admit, I am getting nostalgic at this point in my life, and I really wanted to hear some of the great C.W. McCall songs again, so my loving wife went out and got this album for me. It's a great album, full of the great songs that I remember. Yeah, Convoy was their biggest hit, but it actually isn't one of my favorites. I love The Silverton, Four Wheel Drive, and Aurora Borealis. I am so happy playing this album, which I do all the time. My son said that it reminded him of that trucker movie (Smokey and the Bandit), and it is from the same era and genre. Overall, I think this is a great album, with lots of fun and interesting songs. I love this album, and highly recommend it. Customer Rating: Summary: this is a very good C.W. album but not the best Comment: This is one of the better albums of C.W.McCall's tunes. I've been looking for years for a copy of the Wolf Creek Pass album. I have it on a worn out 8-track and can't seem to locate it anywhere else. With songs like Nite Rider, Old Sloan,Classified, 4-Wheel Drive, Old Thirty and more. This one will serve as a substitute till I can find one. Customer Rating: Summary: They should make every community planning board Comment: Listen to "There won't be no country Music there won't be No Rock and Roll" before they vote on things. When I listen to this song I realize how accurate he was almost 30 years ago. "And the whole damn world is gonna be made of styrene" Remember the popular advertising commercial of the Indian crying at all of the pollution. It was playing roughly the same time. Lot of good old songs. Folk songs the way it was meant to be. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The linkage between consumerism and popular music finds a strange analogue in William Fries, a.k.a. C.W. McCall. Trained in graphic design and advertising, Fries invented his trucker persona while working on a bakery ad campaign and helped drive the trucker craze of the '70s with a slew of novelty tunes, few of which have aged very well. McCall described his delivery as a "walkin', talkin' singin' style," though emphasis always falls on his deadpan spoken wit. McCall never took himself seriously, and tunes like "Crispy Critters" and "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" will inspire a laugh at just how weird the '70s could be. --Roy Kasten