You know C.W. McCall’s “Convoy,” and probably Red Sovine’s “Teddy Bear.” You’ve seen Smokey and the Bandit 1-3 and purchased BJ and the Bear: The Complete Series on DVD. But you haven’t really experienced seventies C.B. weirdness until you’ve heard Rod Hart’s story of a gay convoy sting.
“C.B. Savage” was Hart’s only hit, breaking the country top 40 back in 1977. It’s a song that’s really too strange for words, so just listen to it:
And that album cover is jut as bad, so for every reason that I can possibly think of, please welcome Breakeroo! to the Bad Album Cover Hall Of Fame.
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Categories: From the Stacks, Music
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Well, that is indeed very strange. Distract the truckers with thome thillyness and then starting writing some tickets. What a plan…
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And a great plot for Smokey and the Bandit 4.
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Yeahhh…..there is an awful lot going on in that tune, I think? Where DO you find these gems? Sometimes I worry you going so far into the forest alone, son.
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You may be right. It might be a long walk back with only Rod Hart to keep me company.
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