Holy shit! "Convoy" is on the radio...

[Texasgal]

Sitting here charting up the last of my patients and my desk radio starts playing CONVOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

:rofl:

Jaysus, what a dumb song!

[muffin1]

1. And an even dumber movie.

I work at a DVD rental store. Several years ago, a couple that appeared to be redneck losers came in, and were wandering around. I mentally spanked myself for thinking they were redneck losers when they asked me where the "Classics" section is.
Can't judge a book, I tell myself. Then they say, "Yeah, we love Classics, like that movie "Convoy".

Hoo-boy.

[Texasgal]

2. There was a MOVIE???

EGADS!!!! :scared: I had no idea...

[muffin1]

7. Yeppers...

I believe Kris Kristofferson was in it. I don't think it won any awards...:P

[Texasgal]

10. Not long ago I watched

" Harper Valley PTA" with Barbara Eden...

It wasn't too bad, I enjoyed laughing at the shitty quality of the movie and the clothes!!!

[muffin1]

12. Oh girl,

I remember that gem. Nothing wrong with a little guilty pleasure, as long as one knows it crap.

Thanks for putting that little ditty into my head.

:)

[JVS]

9. And it's been put on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tkaLaGVr0

[Texasgal]

11. OH DEAR!!!

:rofl:

I gotta get home to watch that! LOL!!! Great find!

[abq e streeter]

13. Hell yeah...filmed near Albuquerque...buncha friends of mine were extras

and yeah, it sucked big time

[mix]

3. I remember loving that song intensely for a short period of time. nt

[HopeHoops]

4. "Ya better back off them pigs. They's startin to clog up mah sinuses."

I LOVE that song! "We crashed the gate doin' 98 sayin' let them truckers roll, 10-4". Dumber than hell, but just as funny.

[Texasgal]

5. You are CRACKING me up!!!

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

8. Hey, that was out about the same time as "Smokin' in the boys room" - the early 70's version.

And Ray Stevens doing "The Streak". "Ethel, YOU-GET-YOUR-CLOTHES-ON!"

[JVS]

6. If you think the song is dumb, try the movie.

[Archae]

14. Bit of a follow-up...

One of the guys who made that song, Chip Davis, used his share of the profits to start his own group, where he could make "17th Century Rock" as he put it.

The group was named "Mannheim Steamroller."

And now you know the Rest Of The Story...

[Texasgal]

21. Hmmm... That's interesting!

Funny the weird facts you can learn on DU!!!

Thanks for the tid bit!

[abq e streeter]

15. Love that one, for same reason I love the movie Red Dawn...just so unapologetically dumb

[abq e streeter]

16. Oh yeah, also...C.W. McCall ( William Fries) was mayor of Ouray ,Colorado from 1986-92

[mix]

18. what sort of ruler was he? nt

[abq e streeter]

19. Actually, I don't know , but these are interesting links; based on these, sounds like an OK guy

http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/html/mcwho.html

http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/html/sjo_main.html

and falling in love with the San Juans is pretty understandable. Stunningly beautiful country.

[jmowreader]

17. You really want a laugh? Plot out the trip they took

We're talking a real simple run--San Francisco to somewhere in New Jersey, probably the ports in the Newark area although he never says exactly where.

CW McCall's routing: SFO -> Tulsa -> Chicago -> NJ and Pig Pen had to go to Omaha, although WHY his shipper couldn't find a slaughterhouse closer than Omaha is beyond my comprehension.

Anyway, if you were going through Tulsa you wouldn't see Chicago (you'd use I-40 to Tulsa, I-44 from there to St. Louis and I-70 the rest of the way in); if you were going through Chicago--more likely if you had a truck that needed to go to Omaha--you'd run I-80 until you got to I-76, then take I-76 to I-70 and I-70 to the port of New Jersey.

Come on, CW...diesel wasn't THAT cheap in the 1970s.

[Texasgal]

22. HA! HA!

That's funny!

I was cracking up at the song! I haven't heard it in years!!

[NightWatcher]

20. I love that song....dad was a trucker for a while when I was a kid

reminds me of listening to the cb while we took family trips

[Brickbat]

23. If loving Convoy is wrong, I don't want to be right.

You are dead to me.

[WolverineDG]

24. 7 long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro bus

always had me :rofl:

dg

[Yavin4]

25. Did You Travel Back In Time?

Are you in 1976?