"CONVOY" singer C.W. McCall has died at 93.

He had been battling cancer and was in hospice care in his Colorado home when he died on Friday, April 1.

The death has been confirmed by his son, Bill Fries III, reports the Washington Post.

McCall rose to fame as a country music star with songs about driving 18-wheelers and big-rigs, including 1976 No. 1 hit "Convoy."

His real name was Bill Fries and he was an ad executive turned singer.

He created the character of C.W. McCall, a truck driver in a series of commercials for a Midwestern bread company.

Fries took on this persona and began recording music about long-haul trucking, even establishing his own CB radio lingo truckers picked up and still use today.

Most read in Celebrity

Source: Read Full Article