https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/cw-mccall-convoy-dead-obit-1302155/
The 1970s were big for #1 novelty hits, and the biggest might have been "Convoy", which called out 2 interstates by name and touched off the CB radio craze.
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Released in November 1975, the spoken-word saga would top both the country and pop charts the next year, sell more than 2 million copies, inspire a 1978 movie of the same name starring Kris Kristofferson, and help add jargon like "10-4, good buddy" into the national lexicon.
"Spoken-word saga"? They might not have known it was "rap" back then, but we should know now :-)
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Cw-mccall-convoy-lyrics
A good song, we'll miss C. W. McCall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEaQBx5HwZ8
Canadian country singer Paul Brandt did also a cover of Convoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAAwTlCp3OE
Edit: Paul Brandt did also a Christmas variation titled "Christmas Convoy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAZLYuGkk8
In coincidence, this was the year of the convoys.
Aw. A great American song. Loved it the first time I heard it.
I wouldn't say it touched off the CB craze; it played off of it.