C.W. McCall, an adman who found fame as a country music singer with songs about 18-wheelers, including the 1976 crossover No. 1 “Convoy,” has died at 93.

C.W. McCall, the baritone country singer best known for his CB-inspired 1976 chart-topping hit “Convoy” has died at age 93. The death of the performer born Bill Fries — who recorded under ...

C.W. McCall, who had a No. 1 Hit with 'Convoy' during the CB craze of the mid-1970s and had several other country hits, has died at 93. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD You will be redirected back to ...

C.W. McCall, an outlaw country singer best known for truck-themed songs like "Convoy," has revealed that he's in hospice. The 93-year-old one-time chart-topper shares that he's battling cancer, as ...

Fries ultimately left C.W. McCall behind altogether, getting out of music and into politics, serving two terms as mayor of his adopted town of Ouray, Colorado, beginning in 1986. (“Well I haven ...

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, “Convoy,” which reached No. 1 on the charts ...

Bill Fries, who had No. 1 hit as C.W. McCall with ‘Convoy,’ dies at 93. He was an advertising executive whose spoken-word songs about truck driving and CB radio became unlikely hits in the 1970s.

C.W McCall, the country singer known for truck-themed songs like “Convoy, died April 1 after a battle with cancer and two months in hospice.He was 93.

“Convoy” singer C.W. McCall has died at 93. He had been battling cancer and was in hospital care in his Colorado home when he died on Friday, April 1. The death has been confirmed by his son ...

Forever No. 1: C.W. McCall’s ‘Convoy’ The sole Hot 100-topping hit for the ad exec-turned-hitmaker arrived at the center of a number of mid-'70s trends.

C.W. McCall, best known for his massive 1975 hit “Convoy,” died Friday in Ouray, Colo. at age 93 from cancer. His death was first reported by the Washington Post. Hollywood & Media Deaths In ...

C.W. McCall, who was best known for his massive 1975 hit "Convoy," has died after a battle with cancer. The Washington Post reports that McCall died on Friday (April 1) at his home in Ouray, Colo ...