C.W. McCall, an adman who found fame as a country music singer with songs about 18-wheelers, including the 1976 crossover No. 1 “Convoy,” has died at 93. According to his son Bill Fries III, McCall ...
The song “Convoy” was written by Chip Davis, today the leader of the band Mannheim Steamroller, and C.W. McCall, the pseudonym for Bill Fries, once an advertising copywriter in Omaha, Neb. In 1972 ...