Bill Fries Research Paper
C.W. McCall
Blaine Sederstrom
Who is C.W. McCall and what's the story behind him? C.W. McCall is actually not a real person. C.W. McCall is truly William D. Fries but just goes by Bill Fries. Bill fries was born November 15, 1928 in Audubon Iowa. Audubon Iowa is a very small town west of Des Moines surrounded by corn farms . The population was around 2,250 people in 1930 and has declined to about 2000 in 2010. Bill said "He was a child of the Great Depression and his family was not very well off so he said the Great Depression was just ordinary life and they survived it very easily". Music was brought into Bill Fries life at a very young age. His dad played the violin and his mom played the piano(thebigfootdiaries.blogspot.com). His Father created a band with his brothers called The Fries Brothers Band where they played for dances all over the country. Bill Fries …show more content…
When the DJ's finally starting playing it they were all completely shocked. It was a MAJOR hit. All switchboards lit up. By January 1, 1976 it had reached the top spot on the billboards country charts as well as pop charts. It was number 1 in both categories for 6 weeks selling 2 million copies. People got hooked on C.W. McCall and his album Black Bear Road because extremely successful. He fulfilled his contract and by the end of the five years he gave himself the name C.W. McCall. He didn't renew the contract but moved on with his life into the film industry. He was hired on by Polydor Records where they wanted to make a movie about the song convoy. McCall loved it. He changed the original "convoy" to make it fit the movie better and when it was all set and done the movie convoy was a huge success. Convoy made over 45 million dollars at the box offices which was huge in the 1970's. It was one of "penkinpah's most successful film and set the peak of the CB radio fad and C.W. McCall's musical
Blaine Sederstrom
Who is C.W. McCall and what's the story behind him? C.W. McCall is actually not a real person. C.W. McCall is truly William D. Fries but just goes by Bill Fries. Bill fries was born November 15, 1928 in Audubon Iowa. Audubon Iowa is a very small town west of Des Moines surrounded by corn farms . The population was around 2,250 people in 1930 and has declined to about 2000 in 2010. Bill said "He was a child of the Great Depression and his family was not very well off so he said the Great Depression was just ordinary life and they survived it very easily". Music was brought into Bill Fries life at a very young age. His dad played the violin and his mom played the piano(thebigfootdiaries.blogspot.com). His Father created a band with his brothers called The Fries Brothers Band where they played for dances all over the country. Bill Fries …show more content…
When the DJ's finally starting playing it they were all completely shocked. It was a MAJOR hit. All switchboards lit up. By January 1, 1976 it had reached the top spot on the billboards country charts as well as pop charts. It was number 1 in both categories for 6 weeks selling 2 million copies. People got hooked on C.W. McCall and his album Black Bear Road because extremely successful. He fulfilled his contract and by the end of the five years he gave himself the name C.W. McCall. He didn't renew the contract but moved on with his life into the film industry. He was hired on by Polydor Records where they wanted to make a movie about the song convoy. McCall loved it. He changed the original "convoy" to make it fit the movie better and when it was all set and done the movie convoy was a huge success. Convoy made over 45 million dollars at the box offices which was huge in the 1970's. It was one of "penkinpah's most successful film and set the peak of the CB radio fad and C.W. McCall's musical