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2 unusual facts about The Best of C. W. McCall


Four Wheel Cowboy

All of the songs found on it, as well as three more, can be found on a later "best of" album, The Best of C. W. McCall.

The Legendary C. W. McCall

It does not contain any songs that cannot be found on the most well-known "best of" releases from McCall, The Best of C. W. McCall and C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits.


Breaker 1/9

"Breaker 1/9" is originally a Citizens' Band radio slang term telling other CB users that you'd like to start a transmission on channel 19, and is the phrase that starts C. W. McCall's 1975 novelty hit "Convoy".

C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits

W. McCall's Greatest Hits, as the title suggests, is a greatest hits compilation of country musician C. W. McCall's work, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music) on Polydor Records, rereleased on September 21, 1993 and containing songs from the first five out of his six albums of original music, including the ever-popular "Convoy" and its sequel, "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck".

Charlie Brenneman

Brenneman faced Erick Silva on June 8, 2012 at UFC on FX 3 and lost via rear-naked choke near the end of the first round.

Chip Davis

These included spots for a local bakery featuring the fictional trucker C. W. McCall.

Dick Glasser

By the 1970s he had accepted the position of managing MGM Records' country music division in Nashville and there he produced C. W. McCall's #1 record "Convoy," a worldwide hit for the company.

John E. McCall

McCall was born in Clarksburg, Tennessee in Carroll County on August 14, 1859, son of Henry M. and Mildred Connally Bowlin McCall.

Keith R. McCall

In 2003, the political website PoliticsPA named him as a possible successor to House Minority Leader Bill DeWeese.

Pagosa Springs, Colorado

"Downtown Pagosa Springs" was the final destination for a duo of truckers in the 1975 country song "Wolf Creek Pass" by C. W. McCall.

Ten-code

The 1975 hit song "Convoy" by C. W. McCall depicting conversation among CB-communicating truckers put phrases like 10-4 meaning "understood" and what's your twenty? (10-20) for "where are you?" into common use in American English.

The Best of C-Bo

# "Smoking Bomb" (featuring Marvaless & Rup Dog) - 3:27 (from the album Ghetto Blues)

# "Can't Stand the Heat" (featuring Marvaless) - 5:03 (from the album Ghetto Blues)

The Best of C-Murder

On the same day, Priority also released compilations containing the greatest hits of his brothers Silkk the Shocker and Master P, entitled The Best of Silkk the Shocker and The Best of Master P, and of their group TRU, entitled The Best of TRU.

Thomas E. McCall

McCall joined the Army from Veedersburg, Indiana, and by January 22, 1944 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Company F, 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.


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