Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fries collaborated with Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis on “Convoy”, which is credited to the two of them and the ...
Mr. Fries, who performed under the stage name C.W. McCall, was an ad executive before he scored a hit with “Convoy,” a CB radio-inspired ode to renegade truckers. By Michael Levenson Bill Fries, the ...
In January 1976, the Billboard Hot 100 featured an unlikely chart topper. For the week of Jan. 10, 1976, the novelty hit “Convoy” was the No. 1 song, five weeks after making its debut on the chart in ...