“Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck,” McCall intoned in the novelty hit “Convoy,” a song that celebrated CB radios and the community of long-haul truck drivers who used the ...

That the 1976 song "Convoy" was created by a fictional musician ... The narrator of "Convoy," a driver who goes by the handle The Rubber Duck, uses the CB to lead a group of truckers in protest ...

Bill Fries, better known as C.W. McCall or "Rubber Duck" from the 1975 song "Convoy," the resulting film later that decade, and trucking tributes, passed away after a long battle with cancer on ...

Mr. Fries wrote the words of “Convoy” and delivered them ... The name, or “handle,” of the song’s central character is Rubber Duck, and he chats with another driver, Pig Pen, hauling ...

This here’s the Rubber Duck. You got a copy on me ... led to a North Dakota interstate being shut down. “Convoy” wasn’t just a song — it was a social phenomenon. In addition to being ...

On both tracks Fries plays McCall, whose CB handle is “Rubber Duck.” The Rubber Duck in the song “Convoy” drives a Kenworth, not a Mack. Mack gave the producers of the 1978 film “Convoy ...

By Gil Kaufman C.W. McCall, the baritone country singer best known for his CB-inspired 1976 chart-topping hit “Convoy” has died at age 93. The death of the performer born Bill Fries — who ...