cw mccall is what henk wijngaard wishes he was

Dang… This actually makes wish to purchase these products. Today’s companies commercial’s…, Yeah. Not so much.

This and aurora borealis hit hard

Just bought this album for $5 on Amazon, glad I got some classics with the favorite nishabotna

Annieandro Pinkpaws 54th Anniversary Tribute

I heard the Old Home An' Filler Up and Keep On Trucking Cafe yesterday driving home. I said, "Alexa, play some C.W. McCall." Then that song played.

This would make a perfect song to add to create a killer Halloween mix tape, along w/ "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by The Charlie Daniels band and "Hurricane" by Leon Everett among others.

This makes me happy

Bloopers and Practical Jokes showed several of these ads. They often ran old commercials. The actor who played C.W. looks like someone who played J.D. in some commercials for Louisiana National Bank. I wonder if it could be the same person. My mom met him one time. There was no mention of Chip Davis. Mr. Fries did rather well with the campaign and some hit records. RIP.

I actually got this album from a place called "Tink's Antinques" for $5, and I like it.

It still makes me cry and want to clean the rain gutters out.😢

This is great!!!!!

I just felt like hearing Convoy again, and I wound up here. What a find! I remember hearing the Old Home fill 'er up song on WWL radio, but I didn't know it involved all this. I put this video in my favorites. Thank you very much for uploading this. Enjoyed it very much.

"I might make a cleaner version or maybe like a call and response version later." I'd like to hear that. Subscribing. :)

This man out here spitting bars. Get that bread 🍞😂

Mavis... Jean McBride Capps Wear (1938 - 2007) Truck Driver... James Alexander Finlayson, Jr. (1926 - 1988)

RIP also to: Mavis... Jean McBride Capps Wear (1938 - 2007) Truck Driver CW... James Alexander Finlayson, Jr. (1926 - 1988)

In the Heavy Date spot, the Bruton Rd. Drive-In Theatre is shown, which was in Mesquite, TX, near Dallas.

I finally went to Audubon today, I don't know why but I have been stopping at every single place that I could remember from the CW songs! I drove the Wolf Creek Pass looked for the old feed store in Pagosa Springs, drove from Durango up the canyon next to the Silverton tracks, drove by the entrance to the black bear road and drove back and forth through the tunnel where the Riverside slide flows. Yesterday I drove through Wiggins Colorado Comma I don't know why I'm doing all this but when I was such a little kid these songs were so much fun! Not to be rude but Audubon and Wiggins aren't much but everything else is absolutely fantastic! Oh yes the Nishnabotna river is not much more than a Creek in any other area😂

Priceless

You can really hear the Mannheim Steamroller in this song.

This was my favorite song on this album. Too bad it never made the radio, I believe it would have been a hit.

This was one of my favorite albums. I loved the songs on here.

Thank you for sharing ..... I believe I went to school with his son Bill, Jr

Once again ol’ CW has made my day. I can’t thank you enough for posting this. Bill’s records were my favorite thing in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s (before I had discovered his Old Home Bread commercials), and coincidentally I ended up spending a 30 year career making commercials myself and did quite a bit of original soundtracks for them along the way. Late in my career I learned Bill’s bio and had to write him a letter. I never heard back, but he passed just a year later at the age of 93. It kills me I never got to connect with the man that was a big inspiration but finding this video was a gift.

Great tune

It’s sad that he passed last year, I love to listen to him when I can’t sleep, I just start listening to his songs and trying to imagine what he is saying

10 gallons wouldn't take him far.

This is great

As a C. W. fan and Iowa boy, this is everything I’ve ever wanted

Did this air on TV, where did you find it? I love this stuff.

Thanks so much for sharing! I never knew there were so many ads! Great to hear the full story from Bill Fries Jr. himself. Who would have thought a bread commercial would lead to a hit song and a movie.

"got a load of the waitress, she was stacked like a truck and her name was Mavis" - Jingles that would not fly in 2023.

Great song

If youtube ads were Old Home Bread commercials I wouldn't skip those.

So terrible

Mavis looks a bit like Polly Holliday aka Flo on Alice.

she was built like a burlap sack, she had it to-ge-ther!

she was built like a burlap sack, she had it to-ge-ther!

Most beautiful song ever

Oh my goodness these are classic!!

Rest in Peace, William Fries Jr.🙏 Thank you posting this.

I’ve always loved this guy’s work. i never knew he started in advertising.

Been a C. W fam for news and knew that he worked outside of music. From the bottom of my heart thank you so much posting this. I didn’t even know it existed.

Loved McCall back when I was a pre-tween. Later, this particular song changed my future. I started a Southern Utah tour business because of it (2000-2003, RIP).

Most beautiful song in the world

❤❤❤❤

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This still brings tears to my eyes

I detect a bit o' product placement in that second Kern's ad - big ol' Pepsi dispenser sittin' there, big as ya please...Don't know if the good folks at Pepsi were aware of the free pub Kern's gave 'em, but this comment in in the style of the late Bill Fries, C.W. McCall to you 'n' me, in memory of the Fill 'Er Up 'n' Keep on Truckin' Cafe. Rest easy SeeDubya...