McCALL, C. W.
(*1928)
McCALL, C. W. (b. William Fries, Audubon, Iowa, November 15, 1928) McCall is an ex-advertising executive-turned-country star who rode the mid-1970s craze for TRUCK-DRIVING SONGS, his biggest hit being 1975's Convoy, made into a popular film by blood-and-guts director Sam Peckinpah three years later. Fries was a fine-arts major at the University of Iowa who went into advertising. In the early 1970s he created the character of C. W. McCall for an ad campaign for a local bakery. His spoken…