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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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type	wsb:Song
sameAs	Convoy
title	Convoy
subject	Number-one singles in New Zealand Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Number-one singles in Australia RPM Top Singles number-one singles Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles 1975 singles 1975 songs 1976 singles MGM Records singles Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles of the year Novelty songs Boxcar Willie songs Ferlin Husky songs Songs about transport C. W. McCall songs Paul Brandt songs Trucking industry in the United States
abstract	%22Convoy%22 is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (pseudonym of Bill Fries) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the U.S. Written by McCall and Chip Davis, the song spent six weeks at number one on the country charts and one week at number one on the pop charts. The song went to number one in Canada as well, hitting the top of the RPM Top Singles Chart on January 24, 1976. %22Convoy%22 further peaked at number two in the UK. The song capitalized on the fad for citizens band (CB) radio. The song was the inspiration for the 1978 Sam Peckinpah film Convoy. The song can be heard on the Rebel Radio station in the 2013 game, Grand Theft Auto V.
schema:author	Chip Davis
schema:datePublished	2006-12-04(xsd:dateTime)
homepage	http://lyrics.wikia.com/C.W._McCall:Convoy
musicbrainz	http://musicbrainz.org/recording/1c31a2c7-4f41-4e7e-8e1d-88455989d225
Musicbrainz GUID	ab2e9f48-0844-4cde-8579-2364eda29328
mo:performer	C.W. McCall
universally unique identifier	5714dec925ac0d8aee3c7757
wikipedia	wikipedia-en:Convoy_%28song%29
wsb:emotion_tags	silly humor funny
wsb:social_tags	cinemax american road music vocal harmonies exclusive pearls fh referral brems tagg radio billboard number ones hippy road melodic string accompaniment billboard number ones 1970s 70s classic rock radio great songs orgasmic soundtrack driving guilty pleasures usa ballets heard on lastfm humor c w mccall cinema hg-country funny convoy honkey tonkin easy listening ballad 1975 a heavy twang in the vocals mellow 70s anthem objectum-sexualis gin story great music male vocalist female vocalists mom and pop cistin country favorites william dale fries oldies nostalgia entertaining 60s singer-songwriter iowa repetitive melodic phrasing minor key tonality general country pop os group nichopoulooza 1970's coutry classics bilititas trucking all my favorite truck driver county male gh10 trucking anthems

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