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C.W. McCall
After a successful career in advertising, Bill Fries began releasing country
songs under his C.W. McCall alias during the mid-1970s, earning a Number 1 hit
on both the country and pop charts with his novelty song "Convoy." He was born
on November 15, 1928, in Audubon, Iowa, and initially made his living as the
creative director of an advertising agency in Omaha, Nebraska. Tasked with
organizing a campaign for the local Metz Baking Company in 1974, he envisioned a
roguish truck driver named C.W. McCall who delivered Old Home Good Buns. Fries
also wrote several country-themed jingl...
