b. William Fries, 15 November 1928, Audubon, Iowa, USA.
Fries loved country music as a child, but had a successful
career in advertising in Omaha, culminating in a 1973
campaign for the Metz bread company that involved a
truck-driver called C.W. McCall: 'It was just a name that
came out of thin air,' says Fries. He had done the
voice-over himself and developed the character on record
with arranger Chip Davis (who later found fame of his own
as the leader of Mannheim Steamroller ). McCall had a US
country hit with 'The Old Home Filler-Up And Keep On
A-Truckin' Cafe', and then reached the pop chart with a
tale of brake failure on 'Wolf Creek Pass'. President Nixon
had imposed a 55 miles per hour speed limit during an oil
shortage, and CB radio, which had previously More...
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