The Definitive 1000 Songs Of All Time 1955 to 2005
Counting down to the Number 1 Song Of All Time! On screen is the latest song added to the Top 1000.
This is a "Work in Progress" so be patient.. please! (Ok.. Moan, what the hell)
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Number 842 - C W McCall
Number 842 C W McCall "Convoy" (1975) .
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Genre:Country
This is about as American as you can get, apple pie and CB radio.
Yeah, breaker one nine, This here's the Rubber Duck, You got a copy on me Pig Pen, c'mon
"Essentially a character created by advertising executive William Fries, C.W. McCall was the instrumental figure behind the truck-driving craze that swept America in the mid-'70s. Fries was born November 15, 1928, in Audubon, IA, and 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, NE, television station. After five years there, he was hosting his own program, on which he drew caricatures of celebrities."
Uh, yeah, Ten-Four Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure, By golly it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon, Yeah, its a big Ten-Four there Pig PenYeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddyMercy sakes alive, looks like we've got us a................ convoy
"In 1975, McCall released the album Black Bear Road; the single "Convoy" hit number one on both the pop and country charts, and a national craze was born. The song proved so successful that it influenced the famed filmmaker Sam Peckinpah to direct the 1978 film Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. By the time of the film's release, however, McCall's career was largely over. He released two more LPs, 1975's Wolf Creek Pass and 1977's Roses for Mama, which did spawn a major hit in its title track. But shortly after the latter album's release, McCall turned his back on the music industry to focus on the burgeoning environmental movement and moved to the small town of Ouray, CO, of which he was elected mayor in 1982. An attempt at a comeback in 1990 proved unsuccessful."
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (That a Big 10 No) and the Album ranked at Number (Mercy Sakes No)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 61.5 out of 108
Now as you all know, well some of you anyway, that i am not the worlds biggest fan of the singing muse Bob Dylan.
I saw Bob Dylan in the 80's in concert with Tom Petty. I went along to see the main man Dylan and i wasn't to fussed about Tom Petty singing as i just wasn't into his music. That Changed. Bob Dylan litrally fell asleep on stage bored with his audience and bored with music generally. I don't know what was going on in his head on that day bit it was obvious he didn't want to be there. However i paid some good money to be there.Up to the batters plate stepped up one Tom Petty and SAVED the concert with a home run of songs. After that concert you could say i was a convicted "Petty" thief. I lost respect in Dylan as one of the greats after that concert but at least i walked away with a better admiration for Tom Petty.However all things being equal, i do like Hurricane song very much and is a most worthy entry in "The Definitive 1000" . I guess Bob "gave a shit" that day when he recorded it in the studio.
What does RS think of their #1 Man? What's most striking about the record is that it is such a collaborative effort. Dylan works as closely with these musicians and singers -- among them, violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner and drummer Howard Wyeth of the Rolling Thunder crew, and vocalists Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley -- as he has with anyone since the Band. But it's still Dylan's album. Had the group been given a chance to record with more care, the record could have been the blockbuster the songs deserve. ~ [Source: Rolling Stone]
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Rolling Stone gave 12 enties into their top 500 and considered "Hurricane" was not good enough which is nuts considering Dylan ever only sang 3 decent songs) and the Album ranked at Number 174
This song has a crowbarred rating of 61.6 out of 108
Chris Rea burst onto the scene in the 80's with a whopper of a hit "On The Beach"
"British singer and guitarist Chris Reahas enjoyed a run of popularity in Europe during the late '80s and early '90s after almost a decade of previous recording.Reastarted out performing with a local group called Magdalene, taking David Coverdale'splace; the band won a national talent contest in 1975 as the Beautiful Losers, but still failed to get a record contract.Realeft the band and recorded the album Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?, which alluded to a discarded stage name, which went gold on the strength of the U.S. Top 20 hit "Fool (If You Think It's Over)." Reawas not heard from again in the U.S. for some time, concentrating his efforts on his main fan base of Europe. A compilation of tracks fromRea's '80s albums, New Light Through Old Windows, was released in 1988 and sold well in the U.K. and Europe and charted in the U.S. Rea followed it up with the critically acclaimed The Road to Hell, which many regarded as his best album. It and its follow-up, Auberge, went to the top of the U.K. album charts, but did not prove as successful in the U.S., where he has failed to chart with his subsequent releases. He released his most ambitious project in 2005, an eleven-album, 130-track box set of all new material inspired by the blues and his own paintings called Blue Guitars"
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Nope) and the Album ranked at Number (Nup)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 61.96 out of 108
Welcome to "The Definitive 1000 Songs of All Time 1955 to 2005" & the Mellow Mix Volumes.This site is merely to question Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500 Songs. Everyone has songs they
like and everyone has dislikes. Remember music is like clothing.. there are many styles,
so why on earth would all people want to wear jockey "Y" fronts???
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