A “Convoy” sequel, of sorts, “Round the World With the Rubber Duck,” peaked at 40 on the country charts, while the melodramatic “Roses for Mama” hit No. 2.

But that December, another song was dashing through the airwaves with lyrics like: "Yeah, breaker one-nine. This here's the Rubber Duck. You got a copy on me, Pig Pen?

"Convoy," a 1976 novelty song attributed to C.W. McCall, topped the charts with its celebration of citizens band radio, trucker lingo and rugged individualism.

Bill Fries, better known as C.W. McCall or "Rubber Duck" from the 1975 song "Convoy," the resulting film later that decade, and trucking tributes, passed away after a long battle with cancer on ...

In 1978, Mr. Peckinpah turned the song into a movie, “Convoy,” starring Kris Kristofferson as Rubber Duck. “It went farther than I would have ever dreamed,” Mr. Fries told The World-Herald.

C.W. McCall, the baritone country singer best known for his CB-inspired 1976 chart-topping hit “Convoy” has died at age 93. The death of the performer born Bill Fries — who recorded under ...

In the late 1970s, Dave Covey was parts manager for a Mack plant in Farmington, N.M., near where “Convoy” was shooting in Albuquerque, which happens to be the Rubber Duck’s home turf.

The song “Convoy” was written by Chip Davis, today the leader of the band Mannheim Steamroller, and C.W. McCall, the pseudonym for Bill Fries, once an advertising copywriter in Omaha, Neb. In ...

But that December, another song was dashing through the airwaves with lyrics like: "Yeah, breaker one-nine. This here’s the Rubber Duck. You got a copy on me, Pig Pen?