Bill Fries, singer known for 1970s trucking ballad 'Convoy,' dies at 93
Bill Fries, the deep-voiced country singer known as C.W. McCall, who turned an ad campaign for an Iowa bread company into the outlaw trucker anthem, &
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Bill Fries, the deep-voiced country singer known as C.W. McCall, who turned an ad campaign for an Iowa bread company into the outlaw trucker anthem, &
The life and times of Bill Fries, the legendary advertising man who played a big role in pop culture's 1970s "outlaw" trucking obsession with his classic hit song, "Convoy."
Fries had been battling cancer.
William Dale Fries Jr, better known as C.W. McCall, has died at age 93. McCall was best known for the 1975 hit ‘Convoy’.
MASON DOCKTER Sioux City Journal Ben Murphy, a partner with the development company Koskovich & Murphy, talks about their work to renovate the former Metz Baking building on Business U.S. Highway 75 north in Sioux City into light industrial space for lease to a variety of tenants. SIOUX CITY -- The former Metz Baking Co. plant along Highway 75, a distinctive and massive midcentury brick edifice, has been rehabilitated by a Sioux City developer. Koskovich & Murphy Developments acquired the property, at 1500 Highway 75 N., last October for $790,000 from its former owner, Bimbo B...