I just had a HARD laugh. For reasons best known to itself, YouTube decided to offer me a video of C. W. McCall’s 1976 song Convoy.
It’s set in a diner, with McCall on a countertop CB radio, and a bunch of non-eating patrons “singing” along. I think it might’ve been from the TV show Hee Haw. I only vaguely remember the song and show- I was young and disinterested.
It’s a tale of a multitude of truckers hauling everything from hogs to dynamite at about 100 miles an hour across the country.
I don’t know that there was ever a *reason* for the casual disregard for safety or law- it was 1976. Probably something to do with bicentennial oppression or other imagined outrage.
This “performance” is simply so bad it’s hilarious. Seated at a table and not looking too happy about it was Hee Haw host and banjo player Grandpa Jones (which is why I think it’s from the show).
It’s simply horrible through and through. Behold and enjoy in agony:
Incidentally, girlie and I have this challenge game we play using YouTube. It’s to torture the other with the worst music/music videos we can think of.
She grew up in Europe and has lots of “ringers”. I fight back with domestic shlock, but it’s really hard to compete. This video I think will win next time we have a go.