“Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck,” McCall intoned in the novelty hit “Convoy,” a song that celebrated CB radios and the community of long-haul truck drivers who used them.

There are many excellent movies that revolve around cars, and "Convoy" is one of the best. Here's what become of the famous ...

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? C'mon?" ...

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 ...

The Strange Story Of 'Convoy': How A Trucker's Protest Anthem Became A '70s Hit "Convoy," a 1976 novelty song attributed to C.W. McCall, topped the charts with its celebration of citizens band ...

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 ...

Bill Fries, who had No. 1 hit as C.W. McCall with ‘Convoy,’ dies at 93 He was an advertising executive whose spoken-word songs about truck driving and CB radio became unlikely hits in the 1970s.

Re-making the Rubber Duck Truck ** Whitehall’s Rudi Sefrin creates a replica of the semi that starts in the cult movie “Convoy” ...

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, N… ...

Bobcat took ‘Convoy’ to the fast lane In the late '70s, the North Dakota manufacturer received national attention with their highway hijinx.