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Liam Finn - Burn Up the Road

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Album: The Nihilist
Released: 2014

Burn Up the Road Lyrics

Burn Up the Road

Liam Finn begun this song before his 2008 solo debut, album I'll Be Lightning. It only came to life once the New Zealand singer-songwriter moved to Brooklyn after touring 2011's FOMO. "I found myself living a nocturnal experience, riding my bike in the middle of the night as fast as I could, being quite reckless really," he told Billboard magazine. "This song was a product of that kind of attitude… I was kind of imagining myself in this post apocalyptic world that always exists in the nighttime."

Rush - One Little Victory

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Album: Vapor Trails
Released: 2002

One Little Victory Lyrics

A certain measure of innocence
Willing to appear naive
A certain degree of imagination
A measure of make-believe

A certain degree of surrender
To the forces of light and heat
A shot of satisfaction
In a willingness to risk defeat

Celebrate the moment
As it turns into one more
Another chance at victory
Another chance to score

The measure of the moment
Is a difference of degrees
Just One Little Victory
A spirit breaking free

One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory

A certain measure of righteousness
A certain amount of force
A certain degree of determination
Daring on a different course

A certain amount of resistance
To the forces of the light and love
A certain measure of tolerance
A willingness to rise above

One little victory
One little victory
One little victory
One little victory

Celebrate the moment
As it turns into one more
Another chance at victory
Another chance to score

The measure of the moment
Is a difference of degrees
Just one little victory
A spirit breaking free

The greatest act can be
One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory

One little victory
One little victory
One little victory
One little victory

Just one little victory
Just one little victory
One little victory
One little victory

Writer/s: ALEX LIFESON, NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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One Little Victory

This is about how it's the little accomplishments in life that can be the most rewarding and satisfying, that giving it your best shot is the innermost fulfilling achievement in life. It's all about challenging yourself within rather than measuring yourself against others. Be yourself and be real. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington - USA)

Both the original version and an instrumental edit were included in the in-game soundtrack of Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit 2.

Neil Peart, Modern Drummer, Sep. 2002: "I'd been working on that tune and came up with that double bass part. I thought it worked perfectly for the end of the song. But Geddy said, 'That's a great part. You ought to open the song with it. That would just kill.' Frankly, I wouldn't have done it that way-I don't think I would have been so assertive-but Geddy suggested it and I said, 'Okay, I'll try it.'"

Geddy Lee, Rockline, May 13, 2002: "One Little Victory was kind of a triumphant song for us, in the lyrics and the message that the song is about. There was something about that song that seemed just so darned appropriate for opening the record, and also being the first release for us in such a long time. That song started as a collection of jams that Alex had done late at night, just a collection of guitar riffs all linked together in a really kind of a typically-Alex-nonsensical way. I came in the next day after he'd done these things, and just kind of scratched my head but really liked a lot of it. At the same time, there were some lyrics there that Neil had written, which were one of the few lyrics that immediately I just loved, I didn't want to touch a word, it was all great. And so I played with it for a couple of days, started using the digital equipment to manipulate the riffs and add my bass to it, and start writing some vocal melodies. And before I know it I had a song, or what seemed like a song. And then I ran it by Mr. Lerxst here, and he seemed to really dig it. So that kind of became a song and it didn't change much after that."

Mastodon - High Road

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Album: Once More Round the Sun
Released: 2014

High Road Lyrics

You let the wind take us down
You let the storm come and wipe us out
I saw the fox stomp you out
I saw the ocean come take you under

I have my bullet stuck in your mouth
I have you screaming for your last breath, yeah
I shoved the boat deep inside
I still waiting for the devour

You take the High Road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

You are the one nobody likes
You are the plague that was brought here by rats
I like to hunt you, lets fight
Watching you fade out and never come back

You take the high road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

You take the high road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

Writer/s: WILLIAM BREEN KELLIHER, TROY JAYSON SANDERS, WILLIAM BRENT HINDS, BRANN TIMOTHY DAILOR
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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High Road

Guitarist Bill Kelliher wrote the music for this song, composing the riff on a James Hetfield model ESP, whilst drummer Brann Dailor penned the lyrics. Kelliher recalled to Artist Direct : "I was sitting in my hotel room in Luxembourg because we had a couple of days off there. It's a very simple, easy, and heavy riff. I didn't think it would catch on with anybody else, but Brann was like, 'I hear some really cool vocals there!'"

"It just blossomed into this huge six-minute song with cool leads," he continued. "They're not solos, but leads in the middle of the song I put together my song. It's something I worked really hard on."

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise

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Album: In Step
Released: 1989

Riviera Paradise Lyrics

Riviera Paradise

This is a soulful instrumental. After a full day of recording material for the album, Stevie asked his producer to leave the tape running and to turn down the lights. All alone, he recorded the guitar track on his Fender Strat. Double Trouble added the backing later, including an organ foundation from Reese Wynans.

On the Austin City Limits performance, Stevie introduced this by saying it was "For all the hurting people in the world." (thanks, Paul - Greenwood, SC, for above 2)

Of Mice & Men - Feels Like Forever

Of Mice & Men - Feels Like Forever Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Restoring Force
Released: 2013

Feels Like Forever Lyrics

Did you ever contemplate when all is lost you hesitate
And nothing seems the same?
Have you ever hit your face and touched disgrace,
Decisions made, a picture with no words?

(Can you hold on? One more day?)

Say
You're okay,
I'm afraid that tomorrow is just too far
Away.
Fight the pain
It just Feels Like Forever is crashing down on me
(Down on me, me, me)

They will fall, what's wrong with pain?
It heals the soul and turn the page to face another day.
Let me know that you will wait
And I will pay for my mistakes and feel the sun again

(Can you hold on?)
Say
You're okay,
I'm afraid that tomorrow is just too far
Away.
Fight the pain
It just feels like forever is crashing down on me

Don't break down.
Time will heal oh.
Just don't let go
One day we shall ? Again

Say
You're okay,
I'm afraid that tomorrow is just too far
Away.
Fight the pain
It just feels like forever (feels like forever)
Forever
Feels like forever is crashing down on me
(Down on me, me, me)
(Down on me!)

Writer/s: MANANSALA, PHIL / ARTEAGA, VALENTINO / CARLILE, AUSTIN / ASHBY, ALAN / PAULEY, AARON / BENDETH, DAVID
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Feels Like Forever

Vocalist Austin Carlile told Kerrang! this is the track on Restoring Force that he is most proud of writing. He explained: "It's one of my favorite songs because it came from such a real place. It was written right there in the studio, and it was all about ourselves and what we were going through. At that point, we felt a bit scared and backed into a corner. It felt like there was so much pressure on us. We wrote the song to try to alleviate those feedings and cut the stress away."

The song's music video was directed by Nathan William and filmed in Los Angeles. "In the studio, 'Feels Like Forever' was the first song we demoed, and ended up being the last song we finished recording," said Austin Carlile. "It fought back. It's a song that everyone in the band has a personal attachment to for various reasons. Bringing it to life visually and in our own backyard of Southern California was a great experience. Sand in my shoes still and all."

Good Charlotte - Hold On

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Album: The Young And The Hopeless
Released: 2002

Hold On Lyrics

This world
This world is cold
But you don't
You don't have to go
You're feeling sad, you're feeling lonely,
And no one seems to care
You're mother's gone and your father hits you
This pain you cannot bear

But we all bleed the same way as you do
And we all have the same things to go through

Hold On if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know

Your days
You say they're way too long
And your nights
You can't sleep at all
Hold on
And you're not sure what you're waiting for,
But you don't want to no more
And you're not sure what you're looking for,
But you don't want to no more

But we all bleed the same way as you do
And we all have the same things to go through

Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on

What are you looking for?
What are you waiting for?
Do you know what you're doing to me?
Go ahead,
What are you waiting for?

Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Hold on

Writer/s: PHILLIPS, CHYNNA / WILSON, CARNIE / BALLARD, GLEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hold On

This is an anti-suicide song. It is a response to all the kids who wrote letters to the band explaining how bad their lives are and how they feel like sometimes there's nothing to do but just give up and cave in to suicide. The band urged these kids to hold on when their world feels like it's not going to get any better, because there's so much to live for. Suicide may seem like the answer at the time, but it accomplishes nothing in the long run. (thanks, Amanda - Brewster, NY and Jesi - Hollywood, FL)

A suicide prevention group helped them put together the video. It showed real people who were effected by suicides.

While promoting the album, Joel explained the song's significance: "Every night on tour at least one, two, sometimes 10 kids tell me how they deal with suicide, like that they're thinking about it. I couldn't sleep at night 'cause all of these kids, they're fans I care about, and i don't want 'em to kill themselves, so I wrote 'Hold on' and put it on the record. That was like the only way I could do something about it. Our fans are the most important thing to me and this whole band, and there's so many kids out there that I meet and that I care about and I only get like two minutes with them and then I have to go on."

Benji added: "And you hope that you said the right thing."

The title is repeated 11 times throughout the song.

Paul Baloche - He Is Risen

Paul Baloche - He Is Risen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: LIVE
Released: 2014

He Is Risen Lyrics

He Is Risen

Paul Baloche wrote this celebration of Christ's resurrection with British worship songwriter Graham Kendrick in 2013 whilst he was attending a Missions Conference in the South of England. He told NewReleaseTuesday the story of the song: "Graham Kendrick and I have been friends for several years and have tried to write together when we have the chance," he said. "He drove down and we spent the day purposely trying to write a resurrection song with the intent of taking the Gospels, and reading through the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection and they are all similar but worded slightly different. We wrote down some of the key phrases and wanted the verses to re-tell the story."

"The singer, the worshiper, the person in the congregation when they look up at the screen is reminded and it's almost like reading Scripture," Baloche continued. "Verse one begins painting the picture, 'early morning, break of dawn, stumbling to the tomb, standing awestruck, wondering who rolled away the stone, and as they looked they saw an angel clothed in white who said don't be afraid, He is alive.' Our response as the congregation is to this reality to not be afraid, He is alive is 'He is risen, Hallelujah, let the whole world sing, Christ is Risen.' Verse two is intentionally is about from that point on, how does this affect us now? How is the resurrection of Christ relevant to us? The invitation is 'sing, with all creation sing, of a world made new, in His life we too may live, bursting from the tomb.'"

"Using that metaphor that the reason He was raised from the dead, it was not just a historical event that happened, it has a relevant, and present day effect on our lives," he concluded. "It has the potential if we choose to put our faith in Christ, and in His finished work and go. Paul unpacks our new life, our new creation, an opportunity, all things are passed away and the life I lead is the hope of glory. That's really verse two is the relevance to us in the year 2014."

Coldplay - Clocks

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Coldplay - Clocks Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Released: 2002

Clocks Lyrics

Clocks

Like many Coldplay songs, this is about love. The lyrics are about being in a conflicted, but very intense relationship as precious time slips away.

Lead singer Chris Martin came up with the lyrics and the piano riff shortly before Coldplay released the album. Since they didn't have much time, they put it aside and planned to work on it for their next album. When Martin's friend heard the demo, he convinced them to do whatever was necessary to record it for A Rush Of Blood To The Head, especially since the song deals with the importance of time.

This won the Grammy for 2003 Record Of The Year, beating out "Hey Ya" by Outkast and "Crazy In Love" by Beyoncé. In accepting the award, lead singer Chris Martin dedicated it to the late Johnny Cash and to US presidential candidate John Kerry, "Who hopefully will be your president someday."

Despite the modest chart position in the US, this song was very popular there, as it appeared in television themes, movies, promotional films, and other commercial outlets. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This plays over the ending credits of the 2003 movie Confidence. (thanks, Nayef - Golden, CO)

The song's pulsing, cyclical riff was inspired, according to Martin, by the band Muse.

This was voted by BBC6 Music's listeners the best song between 2003-2012 in a poll to celebrate the radio station's tenth anniversary. Arctic Monkeys' debut hit "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" was runner-up.

Drummer Will Champion confessed during an episode of VH1's Storytellers that he initially thought this now-ubiquitous song was "absolute rubbish."

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Smoke Fairies - We've Seen Birds

Smoke Fairies - We've Seen Birds Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Smoke Fairies
Released: 2014

We've Seen Birds Lyrics

We've Seen Birds

Smoke Fairies is a British blues and folk musical duo comprising Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies. Their 2012 Blood Speaks album sold poorly, despite being critically acclaimed. A disillusioned Davies told Blamire that she felt the pair had gone as far as they could go and didn't feel that Smoke Fairies should continue. It didn't take long for her to change her mind and Davies wrote this musical apology to Blamire. "I just wanted to say sorry to her – sorry I scared you like that," she told The Independent. "We realised this is our life. It was my way of saying, 'I'm back on board, let's go for it.'"

The song's music video finds the pair hand-making a giant bird sculpture out of wood which then takes flight from the top of a hill. "We wanted something fantastical and magical to represent the joy of the journey," Blamire told The Independent. "I guess we had come back round to seeing it as something really great that we were doing."

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Faster Than The Speed Of Night
Released: 1983

Total Eclipse Of The Heart Lyrics

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit restless and I dream of something wild
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry
Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified
But then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround, every now and then I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
Turnaround, every now then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Turnaround, every now and then I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you
Turnaround, every now and then I know there's nothing any better
And there's nothing that I just wouldn't do
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, every now and then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
Nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Writer/s: JAMES RICHARD STEINMAN
Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC
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Total Eclipse Of The Heart

This was written by Jim Steinman, who wrote all of Meat Loaf's hits, including "Paradise By The Dashboard Light," "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad," and "I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)." Like these Meat Loaf songs, this uses elaborate production and is very long, running 6:51.

According to an October 26, 2006 article in the Australian newspaper The Herald Sun, Steinman first offered this song, along with "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" to Meat Loaf for his 1983 album Midnight At The Lost And Found. For financial reasons, Meat's record company wanted him to write his own songs for the album, so this song went to Tyler and "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" went to Air Supply.

Bonnie Tyler is from Swansea, Wales. This was the first record by a Welsh artist to top the US chart.

This entered the UK charts at #1, making Tyler the first female singer to do so.

Drummer Max Weinberg and keyboardist Roy Bittan, who are both members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street band, played on this. So did Rick Derringer, a guitarist who was a member of The McCoys ("Hang On Sloopy") and had a hit on his own with "Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo."

This played a major role in the 2001 movie Bandits. Cate Blanchett's character loves the song, describing it as "The ultimate haiku to the complexity of love." She soon finds out that Bruce Willis' character also loves the song, and their relationship develops.

A wedding band sings a surprisingly vulgar version of this in the movie Old School. It was performed by The Dan Band, which is a real group specializing in obscene versions of songs made popular by female singers. (thanks, Natasha - Chico, CA)

This is featured in Urban Legends (the first one) when at the beginning of the movie a girl is driving in her car and the killer is in the back seat. She puts this song on and starts singing to it before having her head chopped off. (thanks, Kathleen - Berthierville, Canada)

In 1995, a version by Nicki French reached US #2 and UK #5. In 2003, a version by Jan Wayne reached UK #28.

Ever wonder how Bonnie Tyler got that raspy voice? After years of singing in nightclubs in Wales, she developed throat nodules and required surgery in 1976. After the operation, her voice developed the distinctive rasp you hear on this song.

The distinctive "Turn Around, Bright Eyes" backup vocals were sung by the male vocalist Rory Dodd, who has appeared on many of Jim Steinman's productions and sang backup on albums by Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed and many others.

This went on to sell over 5 million records worldwide. It won the Variety Club award in the UK for best single of 1983.

The gothic video, with Bonnie Tyler clad all in white, was story-boarded by Jim Steinman and was inspired by the film Future World, the follow-up to the Yul Brunner futuristic thriller Westworld. It was filmed at Holloway Asylum, which was built by a doctor out of the proceeds of a drug he'd invented to help his patients.

The video was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who worked on many of the early videos for Elton John, Billy Joel and Fleetwood Mac. He says that the scene where a shirtless young boy throws a dove into the camera - which was Steinman's idea - earned him the wrath of Tyler. Mulcahy said in the book I Want My MTV: "Bonnie came around the corner and screamed, in her Welch accent, 'You're nothing but a f--king pre-vert!' And she stormed off. There was nothing perverse intended."

The song was performed in the Glee episode "Bad Reputation" on May 8, 2010. The subsequent single release debuted at #16 on the Hot 100 with 134,000 digital sales. Out of all the Glee singles, only the cast's debut effort, "Don't Stop Believin'," has registered a bigger sales week-177,000 in its first 7 days.

This featured in a much talked about 2012 ad-campaign for the Australian bank, Westpac, in which Tyler walks across water as she sings the song at a wedding.

Stiff Little Fingers - Guilty as Sin

Stiff Little Fingers - Guilty as Sin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Going Back
Released: 2014

Guilty as Sin Lyrics

Guilty as Sin

This song is about child abuse and the hypocrisy of the church. Bassist Ali McMordie told Artist Direct : "It is provocative and disturbing, not least because the words have rekindled friends' memories of abuse as children."

C.W. McCall - Convoy

C.W. McCall - Convoy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Black Bear Road
Released: 1975

Convoy Lyrics

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."

'Cause we got a little ol' Convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little ol' convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."

'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.

Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."

'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy! Convoy! Convoy! Convoy!

Writer/s: BOXCAR WILLIE
Publisher: MIZ BOX MUSIC
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Convoy

This is a novelty song inspired by the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. The story of "Convoy" was told in CB jargon and with a Country and Western (the "C.W.") twang. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

C.W. McCall is a character created by songwriter Bill Fries. While he displayed musical promise as a child, he was more interested in graphic design. While attending the University of Iowa, Fries studied music and played in the school's concert band, but his major was in fine arts, and after graduation he began handling the art chores at an Omaha, Nebraska television station. After 5 years there, he was hosting his own program, where he drew caricatures of celebrities. Fries signed on as the art director for an Omaha advertising agency in the early '60s, and it was there that he created the character C.W. McCall as a selling tool for an area bakery. A trucker for the fictional Old Home Bread company who spent much of his time in a diner called The Old Home Filler-Up-an'-Keep-On-a-Truckin' Cafe, the McCall character was a huge hit with viewers, and the radio campaign won Fries the advertising industry's prestigious Clio Award. In 1974, Fries decided to cut a record under the McCall moniker, and the single, a monologue with country backing titled after the aforementioned cafe, became a hit. A follow-up single, "Wolf Creek Pass," was even more successful.

This hit #1 on both the Pop and Country charts, and a national craze was born.

Sam Peckinpah made a 1978 movie based on the song starring Kris Kristofferson and Ally McGraw. By the time the movie was released, however, McCall's music career was largely over. He released two more albums, but in 1977, McCall turned his back on the music industry to focus on the burgeoning environmental movement and moved to the small town of Ouray, CO. He was elected mayor of the town in 1982. An attempt at a comeback in 1990 proved unsuccessful. (thanks, Bob - Knoxville, TN, for above 3)

There was a serious side to this song. It dealt with the struggles truckers were facing with restrictive speed limits, tolls, bureaucracy and fuel costs.

"Old Home Bread" was a real bread company in Iowa, where the ads were broadcast. They were filmed in Pisgah, a small town in the Western part of the state. (thanks, Scott - Eugene, OR)

Some of the CB terms used and their meanings:

Got a Copy - do you hear me?

Jimmy - a GMC truck. GMC no longer builds class 8 trucks.

Headin' for bear - coming up on a police blockade. "Bear" is the CB slang term for "police."

Shakeytown - Los Angeles, California

Put the hammer down - speed up

Tulsa-town - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Smokies - highway state patrol officers

Bear in the air - police helicopter

Ten-nine (10-9) - repeat message

Swindle Sheets - truckers' logs. Truckers have to keep logs of what they were hauling. These "swindle sheets" must be presented to Department Of Transportation officers on request.

Chi-town - Chicago, Illinois

Chicken Coop - weigh station

Longhaired friends of Jesus - hippies

Microbus - Volkswagen Microbus. Very popular vehicle among the hippies during the 1960s and 1970s. Another popular song that mentions the Volkswagen Microbus is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie.

"Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your... tail" - The real phrase is "keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your a**". A typical CB sign-off that means to drive carefully and watch out for speedtraps.

"What's your twenty?" - "Where are you?"

"Catch you on the flip-flop" - "I'll talk to you on my return trip (on the way back home)." (thanks, Patrick - Tallapoosa, GA)

This song is referenced in chapter 5 of the textbook Infrared Detectors and Systems by Dereniak and Boreman. In the same way a journal article or textbook is referenced, the authors point to the song as proof that semitrailer trucks travel in convoys to draw an analogy to how photons, or light quanta, tend to bunch up as they are emitted. (thanks, Alejandro - Albuquerque, NM)