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Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: kendall Date: 26 Apr 11 - 07:47 PM It Sure as hell aint country is not in the dt, so if you want it pm me. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: kendall Date: 26 Apr 11 - 07:39 PM It Sure as hell aint country. (Mine) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Gene Date: 26 Apr 11 - 06:49 PM You can listen to many of the truckin' oldies at: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/andysgirl/ G |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: open mike Date: 26 Apr 11 - 11:53 AM there is a song called Feather River Turn Around..by Red Simpson or Red Sovine... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,brdalton Date: 25 Apr 11 - 03:59 PM Lawrence Hammond's song "Trucker's Nightmare" from his album "Coyote's Dream" as these lines: Them ole red veins o a trucker's eyeballs that's the roadmap of his soul. Drive a million miles you get a case of the piles makes you feel like your sittin' on a cactus pole. But when you been home a week and your ole lady squeeks cuz your tryin' to downshift her arm in your sleep you're rollin' down that run called Trucker's Nightmare! the song also has the lines: I pray to God and Jimmy Hoffa "Please, fellas get me offa this rig's brakes are goin' right down to the floor. this might be one of the most unusual trucking songs |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST Date: 20 Jan 09 - 04:29 AM no one said east bound and down or west bound and down by jerry reed good songs |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Gene Date: 04 Jul 00 - 12:44 PM I think Dave Dudley also rocorded JACK-KNIFE Found this TRACK list at [www.cddb.com] Various Artists-Trucker Hits 2
Dave Dudley-Been Around The Horn |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: JenEllen Date: 03 Jul 00 - 06:49 PM Not to step on any steel-toed boots here, but have you heard the "Driving A Truck" song by Weird Al? ~Elle |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Frank Date: 03 Jul 00 - 12:30 PM I have been looking without success for two truck drivin' songs that I heard on the same record album in the sixties. The first is called Jacknife, lyric: "Rainy night, blindin' light...Jacknife!" and the second is called Deuce-and-a-Half, lyric: "I won't forget the year of fifty-four I drove a truck in that Korean War Haulin' soldiers to the front and back In a rig they call the Deuce-and-a-Half". Does either of these sound familiar to anyone? TIA, Frank |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Harold W Date: 08 Apr 00 - 11:21 PM The C. W. McCall Fan site is very good, it reminded me of another project that he did in Ouray, CO that I saw while I was a student at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. Though I digress from the main body of this thread, thank you Dale Rose for the memory. Ken Johnson |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Dale Rose Date: 08 Apr 00 - 03:30 PM HEY! On the link I gave above, I just clicked on the picture of Mavis (no I didn't read the story first) expecting a larger version, but what came up was a 1:11 Real Video clip from an Omaha TV station's Saturday late night monster movie show, featuring Mavis between scenes! (Now back to our movie) Near as I can remember from the ads I saw roughly 25 years ago, she is the real thing, though the actual ads would have been a lot more entertaining. Long loading, but worth a look. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Gene Date: 08 Apr 00 - 03:17 PM Well, I was at www.cddb.com awhile back downloading track lists for CDs/LPs/CAS [to save scanning] and found these and thought I would pass them on! |
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Subject: Lyr Add: Old Home Fill-'er-Up-An'-Keep-On-...^^ From: Dale Rose Date: 08 Apr 00 - 02:51 PM Yeah, COMPREHENSIVE, indeed! Now what is left for the rest of us??
Actually, I have been meaning to lay down a few things about one of my favorites, Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe. This is the song which quite by accident started the whole C. W. McCall thing. In 1972, ad writer Bill Fries created a series of television advertisements for Iowa's Old Home Bread Company. The commercials featured a trucker, C.W. McCall, a driver for Old Home. His girlfriend, Mavis, worked at the Old Home Filler-Up And Keep-On-A-Truckin' Cafe. Chip Davis, who went on to be the founder of Mannheim Steamroller wrote the music.
Since my parents used to live not too far from the Illinois/Iowa line, I got to see quite a few of the commercials which had a continuous story line, and were quite entertaining. They were so popular that people would actually call up the stations that carried them and REQUEST them! It was not until 1974 that Old Home, etc. became a minor hit for Fries, recording as C. W. McCall. Convoy came along as a single in 1976.
The Old Home Cafe is still there in Pisgah, Iowa, so far as I know. Sadly, I don't think there ever was a real Mavis, no more than there ever was a real C. W.
More about Fries/Davis/CW/Mavis/Sloane/Old Home, etc. on this page, including a picture of the lovely Mavis. I used to know the name of the actress who played her, but it is gone now. Maybe it is on the site somewhere.
Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe
Bill Fries, Chip Davis, 1972
Well, Interstate 80, we was cuttin' the fog
[Chorus]
Now we've been every place between here and South Sioux
Well, she filled my tank; I said "Thank you, honey."
Then I went inside. She says, "What'll it be?"
[Chorus]
Well, Saturday night we was truckin' along
[Chorus]
Well, I got me a stool, took a load off my shoes,
Well, we geared that tranny into super-low
[Chorus] |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Apr 00 - 01:59 PM Holy smoking retreads, Gene! That was a comprehensive list. Nobody has mentioned Luxury Liner, done by the International Submarine Band on their Safe at Home album. Gram Parsons was the main figure in the Submarines, and he may have written it. I know there is a version on Emmy Loy Harris' album called Luxury Liner.
"The Luxury Liner, forty tons of steel |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Gene Date: 08 Apr 00 - 01:18 PM TRUCKIN' SONGS AND MORE TRUCKIN' SONGS... [some repeats)
Various Artists (Rig Rock Deluxe)
Truck Driving Man (Don Walsher)
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
RED SIMPSON
Various Artists)
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Dave Dudley |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST Date: 07 Apr 00 - 10:49 PM I mentioned this one in the thread about speeding vehicles, Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves. I've yet to work this one into my set list but I'm workin' on it. It's a classic from the fifties. I have it on a 78rpm, it got broken but I saved what was left after the accident. It was that good. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 07 Apr 00 - 08:54 PM Refresh |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 07 Apr 00 - 03:44 PM For Biskit to read... Yours, Aye. Dave |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 01 Apr 00 - 09:02 PM Another good song--"Prisoner of the Highway" by Ronnie Milsap. Here: Driving My Life Away. Home Fires Burning Momma Knows The Highway Poppa Loved Mama Roll On Carolina Mountain Dewe --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Harold W Date: 30 Mar 00 - 10:03 PM As a C. W. McCall fan, Bill Fries (aka C. W. McCall) has done some other songs of that genre. They are Night Rider, I've Trucked all Over this Land,'Round the World with the Rubber Duck (a follow-up to Convoy), Super Slab Showdown (featuring me and Earl from Wolf Creek Pass), Windshield Wipers in the Rain, and Ratchetjaw (CB Lingo). A side note: Chip Davis who worked with Fries on these does some folk songs as part of Manheim Steamroller. Ken Johnson |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 30 Mar 00 - 07:30 PM I just remembered. Driver McIvor!!! Local Maritime Cape Breton song. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST Date: 30 Mar 00 - 05:59 PM David Lynn Jones' 'Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)' on his 'Hard Times on Easy Street' is a great one about a woman truck driver. There's also a CD full of them: Various Artists 'Big Rig Deluxe: A Musical Salute to the American Truck Driver' Upstart 025. Tracks include Don Walser 'Truck Driving Man'/Shaver 'Mother Trucker'/Steve Earle 'White Freight Liner'/Buck Owens 'Will There Be Big Rigs in Heaven'/Kelly Willis 'Truckstop Girl' etc. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Pontiac Joe Date: 30 Mar 00 - 03:08 PM I'm a trucker and never heard of half the songs mentioned. Maybe I here the real ones, the way the drivers whine and cry about everything. And how all the four wheelers are idiots and an 18 wheeler can't do wrong when 50% are just as bad as the cars. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Willie-O Date: 30 Mar 00 - 09:22 AM Yeah, I kinda want you ta hang onta that dime. Keep it as a souvenir... Yeah, hang onta it as a souvenir Of Big Joe and Phantom 309... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 29 Mar 00 - 12:42 PM Another good one "Highway Junkie" by Randy Travis. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 29 Mar 00 - 10:40 AM Dang, you know, I can't BELIEVE I forgot "18 Wheels & a Dozen Roses" (originally written by Nanci Griffith I believe) And Grab, I love "Papa Loved Mama"! You ain't offending me! You have good taste! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: alison Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:21 AM What about "I like trucking" from Not the Nine O'clock news? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: alison Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:19 AM Here's the site though in case someone else can find it PAt Drummond... included in the lyrics is a poem the colours of the Cross which he wrote after sleeping on top of his rig in the middle of Australia, and woke up to find the sky covered in stars. Many of the songs are written about the people he has met on his travels. The road to Damascus (includes a sound clip... )is an great song about a "hitch-hiker" he picked up. slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Anthony Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:16 AM Oh good grief! I think we've all forgotten about "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" by Kathy Mattea. What a sweet little song -- just made for Dobro and mandolin -- and all those natural harmonies. Also -- on the novelty side -- "There Wouldn't Be No Truck Drivers if it wasn't for us Trucks." Recorded by Dave Dudley, I think. Finally, though it's on the edge, "Me and Bobby NcGee." "... We sang every song that driver knew ..." etc etc.
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: alison Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:06 AM Pat Drummond (a great Aussie singer/ songwriter, and part time trucker) has written one... the chorus goes along the lines of ... 18 wheels, 24 gears, and a heart racing through the night unfortunately the lyrics aren't at his site yet....... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Willie-O Date: 29 Mar 00 - 08:40 AM Willin is by Lowell George. (Little Feat) Linda Ronstadt did a nice version but not very believable. I like my country with lots of syrup, natch. So I nominate "Mama Hated Diesels" as done by... Asleep At The Wheel or Copmmander Cody, one of em anyway. Mama hated diesels so bad (Of course this song includes a faded photograph and a graveyard scene with a sad old padre...sob) On the Canadian side of things, the all-time classic is OF COURSE"Bud the Spud" by the inimitable Stompin Tom Connors. Its Bud the Spud from the bright red mud
Well, I'd love to stay and chat good buds, but I gotta be rollin down the two-lane black top... Willie-O
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Grab Date: 29 Mar 00 - 07:58 AM Not quite the same, but it does feature a trucker. Poppa Loved Momma by Garth Brooks. And now I'm running and hiding from the C&W purists... Grab. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: ddw Date: 29 Mar 00 - 01:03 AM Another that just popped into my mind — if truckin' in the U.K. and Europe counts here — is Ewan McColl's "Champion At Keepin' 'Em Rollin'" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: ddw Date: 29 Mar 00 - 12:47 AM The first song Belter referred to is C.W. McCall's "Wolf Creek Pass" — and he's right about funny. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Chocolate Pi Date: 28 Mar 00 - 11:05 PM Truck Drivin' Woman, Si Kahn |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 28 Mar 00 - 10:58 PM The Lido Shuffle by Boz Scaggs! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: rangeroger Date: 28 Mar 00 - 10:21 PM White Freightliner by Townes Van Zandt |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 28 Mar 00 - 09:34 PM Man, Junior Brown RULES! I gotta find that one! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Frankie Date: 28 Mar 00 - 09:23 PM "Semi Crazy" by Junior Brown from the CD of the same name is,IMO, a modern day truck driving classic. F |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Amos Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:57 PM Whoooooooooooo! A genuine convoy! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Elektra Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:17 PM I believe it's called "30,000 pounds of bananas" and was written and performed by the late Harry Chapin -- though most of you may know him by his "Cat's in the Cradle" song.
Got a CJ-4 with a 4-wheel drive, and a Smokey on my tail...
*elektra* |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,belter Date: 28 Mar 00 - 07:55 PM CW McCall - trucken on down the other side is good for a laugh, and so is the bannana truck song ?title? ?author? about loosing control of a hairpin road while delivering "Just about thirty thousand pounds of bannanas" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Crowhugger Date: 28 Mar 00 - 06:38 PM Three I can think of, not yet mentioned:
Willin' by ?? "Willin" is sorta country, "Truckin" is bluesy and "Running on Empty" is, well, typical electric shallow-angst JB. IMO. CH |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Margaret V Date: 28 Mar 00 - 06:17 PM Hey, don't ignore Richard Shindell's "Kenworth of my Dreams!" It's on his album "Sparrow's Point," a bit out of place vis-a-vis the rest of the songs but a good, good song nonetheless! Margaret |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,Anthony Date: 28 Mar 00 - 06:04 PM Red Sovine is fine (really!), but check out Tom Waits' version of Pantom 309. It has slightly altered lyrics that enhance the general spookyness and some fine, spare sounding guitar work by Tom himself. I THINK it's on the "Nighthawks at the Diner" album from the 1970s. Also the now-classic Truck Drivin' Man. Leon Russell has an especially fine version on Hank Wilson's Back Bo. 1 -- also a 70s recording. G'luck Tony
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Mbo Date: 28 Mar 00 - 06:03 PM You know Battlefield Band sang "Six Days On The Road"? Might be worth looking into! C.W. McCall did some other good ones too, like "The-Old-Home-Fill-'Er-Up-And-Keep-On Truckin'-Cafe". So other good truckin' songs: Drivin' My Life Away--Eddie Rabbitt Runnin' With The Wind--Eddie Rabbitt She Keeps The Home Fires Burning--Ronnie Milsap Momma Knows The Highway--Hal Ketchum Peterbilt, a Truck For a Man to Drive--can't remember who...(this and the one above are good lady trucker songs!) Papa Loved Mama--Garth Brooks (funny song!) Roll On--Alabama (ahh...memories of my youth...) Carolina--Alabama Wheels--Restless Heart Sorry, folks....I'm a huge country music fan, this is what I, NOTE: personally only, consider classic country. The songs of my childhood....but all of them good, believe me! Check 'em out! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 28 Mar 00 - 05:45 PM Phantom 309, Six Days on the Road, Giddy-Up Go, many of Red Sovine and Dave Dudley stuff. Lots of them. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 28 Mar 00 - 05:28 PM White Line Fever.("Beaver" my version) .Movin On Merle Haggard. Come on Biskit ol'buddy we need you in here mate... Red Sovine wrote some real good ones.. Teddy Bear..Phantom 309..18 Wheels a Hummin..Giddy Up and Go daddy..Colorado Cool Aid..etc..Red Simpson I'm a Truck.. Nitro Express.. Dick Curless..Tombstone Every Mile..Cledus Maggard & the Citizens band The White Knight...Dave Dudley Girl On The Billboard.. Give Me Forty Acres.. Freightliner Fever...Six Days on The Road.. and a whole bunch more... Biskit you can come and listen to my Old Gene Tracy Tapes and we can swap BS sometime.. Hammer Down...Catch you on the Flip Flop, I'm gone.....Aye. Dave (the ancient Trucker) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: Amos Date: 28 Mar 00 - 04:25 PM The two best remembered in my recollection of the period (early 70s) when CB was a craze were "Convoy", an alltime classic, and "Teddy Bear". Earlier, Burl Ives did "Diesel Smoke". Of these, Convoy and Diesel Smoke are certainly worth the trouble of finding and hearing. Teddy Bear belongs on the worst lines collection list in my opinion. I am sure I am forgetting a number of gems, though... |
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Subject: Big Rigs, C.B.radios Songs From: GUEST,remcolt@webtv.net Date: 28 Mar 00 - 04:19 PM Hi I am looking for songs about or with Semi trucks or thier drivers or C.B. radios songs if you know of any please Send them to me or post them thanx.. |
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