Top Famous Love Songs and Music

Convoy We Gonna Roll This Truckin ': officer Trucker Top 10

By Andrea Rizzo

Americans romance with the road has been more focused on the profession of trucks and songs written about him. From the moment the first truck hit the curb, drivers of trucks Cowboys have become a sense, the conquest of stopping a truck tractor, a cup of Joe, and suddenly the air horn at a time. The lyrics of songs on the trucks are a celebration of this adventure, and early country singers like Dave Dudley, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard used the road blues as a calling card, which is contagious to the singers of today.

The following pieces represent a non - Official Top 10, which covers the mid-50s to mid 90. While there have been dozens of excellent songs way through those decades and beyond, ten were chosen by merit classic. Already claimed invention is that the circuit breaker, or drew attention to the women's perspective, these issues have resisted the test of time for scores of films, plays the radio emissions, and perhaps the greatest compliment performances in other stars.

1. "Convoy" by CW McCall (Bill Fries composer) 1975

This classic full Campy CB jumping and wailing sirens Truck Driving introduced into pop culture. The story unfolds as a series of carriers under the handles "Rubber Duck", "Pig Pen "and" Sod Buster "as a cluster of a convoy of trucks and evade police while the use of large middle 70s style slang: "If Smokies" as big as bugs on a bumper / even had a bear-in-the-air and all that SEZ trucks callin ' Here 'El Pato' / we about to be equipped with a huntin '. "

The ultra-catchy chorus and arrival triumphant helped win contracts Campy classic: "Because we have a convoy Mighty / Rockin 'Through The Night / Yes, we train Mighty / Ain she a beautiful sight? / Come and join our convoy / will''on Ain t nothing our way / We Gonna Roll This Truckin 'Convoy /' Cross the USA. " Not only does it in the cards in their day, but it was enough to influence the director Sam Peckinpah released a film of the same name, three years later.

2. "Truck Drivin 'Man", said Terry Fell, 1954

Back in the mid fifty, this bit of bluegrass, with Boogie-Woogie piano, harp and pedal steel hot tears, tells the simple story of a truck driver for a coffee and a song: "Give me another cup of coffee / For it is the best of the land / I'll put a coin in the jukebox / and play the Truck Drivin 'Man'. "This has been done by tons of famous musicians over the decades, including George Hamilton IV, Red Steagall, Glen Campbell, David Allan Coe, Checkout Cody and many many more.

3. "Six Days on the road," said Carl Montgomery and Earl Green, 1963

A song writing the most eloquent on the life of a trucker, "Six Days on the Road" covers the issues of boredom, despair, nostalgia trip. Throughout the trial of a storyteller to stay awake and avoid the omnipresent police, the conclusion is that he misses his girl home, "Well, seems to be a month since I kissed my baby Goodbye / I could have a lot of women, but I'm not like some other guys / I could find one for Hold Me Tight, but I never could believe that it is / Six days on the road and I'll do tonight at home. "Made famous by Dave Dudley, who was covered by Taj Mahal, Boxcar Willie, George Thorogood, and my favorite, The Flying Burrito Brothers.

4. "Looking at the world through the windshield," Jerry and Mike Chestnut Hoyer, 1967

Like Father Like Son. This number was written from the perspective of a child who has lost his truck-driving father growing up, but now is in her. As a truck driver was finally understands adult nostalgia his father, "Now I see the world through a windshield / And see a slightly different light: I have a sweet little thing I'm wantin 'to Nashville to see / And I'm down around Dallas and a'rollin 'fast during the night. "It was modern by Sovine, Son Volt and Toby Walker.

5. "Phantom 309" Red Sovine, 1967

This song beautifully illustrates the power of urban folklore. A similar story is told again and again, through films, stories and songs of course. Relaying the story of mysterious but warm Big Joe the trucker who lost his life when he saved the lives of children in an accident, Sovine weaves a tale of ghosts is very worrying. It seems that each year in the time of his death, Big Joe hits the road and brings the weary travelers to stop their heart: "But sometimes, some hiker'll come / And like you, give them a tour of Big Joe'll / Here, another cup and forget about the tithe / keep as a souvenir of Big Joe and Phantom 309 "This story has found another life in society of Boxcar Willie, Dave Dudley, and, more recently, Tom Waits.

6. "White Line Fever," Merle Haggard, 1969

Like most offerings Haggard is singing a real Workin 'rights. It describes the world of road transport as a disease about, but something that will not be cured at once: "The years keep Flyin 'like poles Highline / wrinkles on the forehead to show the miles I put behind me / I still remember how fast I'm growin 'old / I guess I'll die with this fever in my soul. "The true path Rager has been addressed in a variety of styles, tastes Motorhead, The Flying Burrito Brothers and John Mayall.

7. "Truck Stop Girl", Lowell George and Bill Payne, 1970

And women on the road? A common theme in all the letters of words road, the female labor force is usually represented as either the woman who keeps house and is a distant object of affection or the cute waitress at the truck stop. This is the last song, and a brief summary of what a young driver may feel alone "It was the kind of man do anything / He had the most integrity / But he was so young / And in a short ten of the city / In love a truck stop girl. "Although originally performed by Little Feat and the Byrds back in the day, this song was given a sexy woman and lift decidingly Kelly Willis in 1996.

8. "Truckin" Grateful Dead, 1970

Given the music psychedelic, ahem, stimulants sixties and seventies, it is difficult to say whether "Truckin '" is really driving trucks. However, it is a nice little song and slice of Americana, with calls from the country towns from Chicago to New York to New Orleans. This is another song where the goal is to return home, where she is the narrator: "Truckin ', I am the home of a Goin '/ Whoa whoa baby, where I belong / Back home, sit down and examine my bones and back Truckin' on / back Hey Now House Truckin '. "Again," Home "may be more a mental than a real place, but hey, this is a fun song to sing with.

9. "Drivin 'My Life Away, Eddie Rabbitt, 1980

During the seventies and eighties, the country singer Eddie Rabbitt had his fair share of success passing. This song was a truck driver like intelligent songs recorded the charts at number five and probably helped to win an American Music Award the following year. Rabbitt infectious chorus of "Ooh, I'm Drivin 'My Life Away / in search of a better way for me / Oh, I'm Drivin 'My Life Away / looking for a sunny day with harmonies and catchy rhythms perfectly make a tough question out of his head.

10. "Mom was a father (the rock was a Rolling Stone), "BR5-49 and Kay Adams, 1996

Singer Kay Adams presented a new perspective of women as a young girl growing realities of life in trucks. With vocals and honky-tonk pedal steel up, Adams reports: "Six days a week did father a great platform Burnin 'the road / No matter what led mother was known to carry the load on all heavy / Six hungry children in a mobile home in a park outside City / Can a unit semi crazy when her man is not there. "His honest lyrics and biting reminder of the importance of keeping the home fires in flames and the woman (or man) who is behind the truck driver.

And, finally, two honorary degrees seems to suggest that road or even the love of the open road, but not the issue. The first, originally written and recorded by country singer Roger Miller in 1965, "King of the Road." Although the title is compelling, is actually an ode to the nomadic life in the national rail system. The other, "We the Road Again "is one of the greatest contributions by Willie Nelson on the composition. It was written for "Honeysuckle Rose Soundtrack", and records the love of Nelson's tour. A tour bus is considered a truck, right?

Now, switch, circuit breaker, 10-4, will now extend this convoy music? Over and out!

About the Author

Andrea Rizzo is a freelance writer in the Norfolk, Va. area. She specializes in music and entertainment writing, and currently contributes to Port Folio Weekly and Lifestyles. In addition, she regularly contributes to CareersinGear.com Magazine and CareersinGear.com, the leading sources for truck driving jobs and other trucking job search tools.

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