First add “Billy dont be a hero” snare drum beat and repeat the following……..

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C’mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it’s clean clear to Flag-Town, C’mon

Uh, yeah, that’s a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Truer words were never said!

Yes, as Jono Coleman reminded us today on “My Generation” (Gold FM Melb)  today, we head back to 1977 & 1978.  More memories of that era?

Aside from “Kids World 1978 “  (♫ Kids World, its great, Kids World 78 ♫)  Where the one and only Ray Burgess sold me sea Monkeys!

Green trams were rocking and rolling along Swanston St (And ran on time!)   OR on the Red rattlers from Sandringham, hanging out the side over the Yarra!  And they still ran on time!

We were watching “Close Encounters of the third kind!”   ♪ Do de do – do do ♪ ! and of course D.I.S.C.O. was at its peak with Saturday Night Fever!

Whoops wrong Fever…

See towards the end for the best Bee Gees Cover of all time  (or click here)

And of Course, 3XY was God!  (next to Countdown)

But a new phenomenon that was sweeping the USA was starting to infect the hoons of OZ.  Way before Mobile Phones, way before TXT’s were the easy way of telling others about coppers or cameras on the highway

Look, a “Double Bubble”

We had C.B’s

Yes, a expensive toy, but every good Kingswood or Torana or XC had a CB in their car, to pick up chicks, and for the girls to meet the spunks that were driving these beasts! And no better grab for a song , than C.W. MC Calls Chart topper where Country met Kenworth with

CONVOY

(Most infor from “The Wacky Top 40 – Bruce nash & Allan Zullo – GREAT book!)

Who was C.W. McCall?   He was Bill Fries, a middle aged ad executive from “Omaha”  who grew a fascination for CB’s.  (Yes if it was 2000, he would have had a flash texting phone I guess!)    As part of a ad campaign for the “Metz Baking company” he invented “C.W. McCall”  – possibly based around a retired trucker with one arm from Missouri, and he gained some local mileage on ads and some songs around trucking and advertising.  After being the “back door” in a convoy (words meant so much nicer things then!) , he made up the song and tried to convince MGM to release it as a single.  It was put on a album of Fries, and started getting airplay.  And the rest you say is history.    Trivia bit, the song was such a hit, MGM music had to have 4 record pressing plants in operation 24/7 to cope with demand.

A lot of the song play and story line was around C.B. licensing (Yes, I remember turning off our CB at Steven L’s place as we had an “unregistered one” when we thought people were tracing us while being stupid on a CB in Doncaster in 1978) and some areas of government in the USA banned the song, only increasing sales (as it always does)

And I could not get it on single, I had to buy an appalling album with a shortened version – I was ripped off. (cant find it at the moment!)

So it is the same way the “young folk” have text language, we had CB talk!  Lets look  at CB lingo 101!

Thanks to:

http://www.super70s.com/super70s/Culture/Fads/CBs.asp

Some of the popular slang terms included:

Handle. A Handle is the nickname a CB user uses in CB transmissions. Other CB users will refer to the user by this nickname. To say “What’s your handle?” is to ask another user for their CB nickname.
County Mountie. This refers to a Sheriff’s deputy car.
Smokey. A law officer. A “smokey report” is what CB users say when they have information on a law officer, such as location or current activities.
Bear. Another slang term for a law officer. References to Smokey & Bear are both direct references to Smokey Bear, a character image commonly seen along U.S. highways. He wears a flat-brimmed forest ranger’s hat very similar to the hat included in many highway patrol uniforms in the U.S.
Bear / Smokey in a plain brown wrapper. An unmarked police car.
Bear in the air or Fly in the sky. A police helicopter.
Bubble gum machine. See “Gum ball machine”
Back door. The area behind a vehicle. To say “I got your back door” means that someone is watching another’s back. Knocking at your back door means approaching from behind. (Today back door is more often used as sexual slang.)
Four. Usually short for the ten code 10-4, which means acknowledged, ok, etc.
Four-wheeler. A small passenger vehicle, as distinguished from an “eighteen-wheeler” (a semi truck.)
Front door. The leader of a convoy.
Gum ball machine or bubble gum machine Reference to any law enforcement vehicle. It refers to a popular style of rotating mirror light used by many state police and some other law enforcement agencies at the time, however the term can refer to any law enforcement vehicle. It looked somewhat like the round style of ‘penny’ gumball machines. It was basically a clear cylinder, like an upside down jar, with lights and a spinning mirror system inside. It was usually mounted on the center of the roof.
Hauling fence post holes or Hauling sailboat fuel. Carrying an empty load.
Local yokel. A law officer with a city or township police force, seldom encountered on interstate highways.
Put the hammer down. Slang for shifting to the highest gear & flooring the accelerator.
Put the pedal to the metal. Another slang term for pushing down on the accelerator.
Picture-taker. A law officer monitoring traffic with a radar gun. Today, this can also refer to an automated speed camera.
Seat cover. An attractive female passenger in a vehicle.
Twenty as in What’s your twenty? This is asking the receiver what their current location is. This term comes from the ten-code 10-20.
Rolling refinery. A semi truck carrying fuel.
Suicide jockey. A truck carrying explosives.
Got your ears on? Asking the receiver if they are on the air and listening to you.
Breaker (channel number) Telling other CB users that you’d like to start a transmission on a channel. (“One-nine” refers to channel 19, the most widely used among truck drivers.)
Breaker, breaker to (CB user handle). A slang term telling another user that you’d like to speak to them.

And a movie starring Chris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw was made, based around the song.  It was a bit craptactular, but if you are in for a bad 70s movie fix, it is not too bad!  ( saw it as a double with “The FJ Holden” I think at Coburg drive in.)

IMDB review CLICK HERE:

Here is the Movie song, lyrics slightly different from the single release!  But you know, I did love this song!

So what of C.W. MCCALL (or “Mr Fries” as his friends at McDonalds call him!)

Still has a website:  http://www.cw-mccall.com/index.php

He retired from the ad agency and after a few more country songs and albums, he is now in Colorado.

Sadly his follow up hits, of “Go and get Trucked”,  “I’m a truck; rrr, rrr”  subject of lawsuit with Wild man Larry Fisher and the doomed to fail, “Show your double bubbles and I can Breaker Breaker” all failed to chart, and CW ended up like a rusty Leyland P-76 , in the Kevin Dennis junkyard of

CLEAVAGEDOWNUNDER – rock and roll!

PS, thanks to Andrea from the Melody Lords Fan Club for this weeks suggestion.

You too can suggest a song, in the comments section below!

Just before the words, here is the BEST version of any Bee Gees song:  Tragedy with

Staying Alive:  What a version!  Maybe Cleavagedownunder could attempt this?

http://www.letsmaketragedyhappen.com/ P.S. They Do send the CD to Australia – I have a copy!

Now the words!

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C’mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it’s clean clear to Flag-Town, C’mon

Uh, yeah, that’s a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin’ logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We ‘as headin’ fer bear on I-One-Oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
An’ I’m about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol’ convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol’ convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy… Convoy…

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here’s The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, ’bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin’ in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they’s a road block up on the clover leaf
An’ them bears ‘as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies ‘as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin’ all trucks, this here’s The Duck
We about to go a huntin’ bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy… Convoy…

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin’ close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An’ left ‘em settin’ on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin’ smart
They’d brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There ‘as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An’ rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops ‘as full a bears
An’ choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an’ we went for broke
With a thousand screamin’ trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he’s haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An’ prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge ‘as lined with bears
But I didn’t have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
We just ain’t a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin’ ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy… Convoy…

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what’s yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An’ the bears off yer… tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here’s the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye…

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