Talk:Convoy (song)

Production data
The following data are still needed for the Infobox Single: Also, the Publisher for the Songs on this Single is American Gramophone Company (SESAC). - B.C.Schmerker 07:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Date released
 * Span of dates recorded (presumably during the Black Bear Road sessions)
 * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer catalog number for the 7" release
 * B-side this release
 * Combined track lengths
 * Preceding and following singles from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for C. W. McCall

Paul Brandt
The Paul Brandt information is stuck in the middle of this article. It sticks out like it doesn't belong. The article needs to at least be restructured so that the Paul Brandt information doesn't look out of place. &mdash; Val42 04:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Omaha?!
It's just a joke that references American Gramophone; truckers would not normally go from Tulsa to Chicago via Omaha. It would mean either backtracking through Wichita or leaving I44 at US 69 and taking that up to Kansas City. Skywatcher68 (talk) 16:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * While we're on the subject of geography: I believe to "lay a strip" means to plot a planned route. The events at the end of the song take place in Chicago, where the Illinois police are deployed, not the New Jersey border.  I have no source for this so I won't update the article, but it seems the most logical interpretation (inasmuch as "Convoy" can be logically interpreted, anyway.) 71.125.134.83 (talk) 01:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No, to "lay a strip" in this context means a strip of rubber from squealing tires, caused by rapid acceleration. This is a coast-to-coast song. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 01:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The sequel, "'Round The World With The Rubber Duck", has as its second sentence, "Ah, negatory, Pig Pen, there ain't no way out 'cept for that one Atlantic Ocean." This would seem to indicate that the author had meant for the first one to end in New Jersey. &mdash; Val42 (talk) 04:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's a big TEN-FOUR. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Uhh, this is all touching, but very very naive. "Well they oughtta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure". Pardon me for being cynical, but to me this sounds like a not-too-veiled reference to bestial sex. 60.229.143.109 (talk) 09:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)


 * That or BBQ. I prefer to think of BBQ. 73.222.16.201 (talk) 02:27, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Identity of "Sodbuster"?
I think the song (or at least, the version I have; I'm not sure which it is) makes it clear that "Sodbuster" is the driver of the microbus. Take the CB chatter immediately following the Chi-town section: "Ah, Rubber Duck, this is Sodbuster, come on there..." "Yeah, 10-4, Sodbuster, listen, you wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?" "Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get." I'm not sure what else this part could mean by 'you wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?' unless Sodbuster was the one driving it. Not to mention the fact they're "eleven long-haired friends of Jesus", and the last part seems to imply 'all the help he can get' referring to a spiritual sense. This might just be me reading too much into it, I dunno. 173.58.155.88 (talk) 23:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * He Might just be tellting "Sodbuster" to let the microbus overtake to put it behind the dynamite truck.
 * "I think the song (or at least, the version I have; I'm not sure which it is) makes it clear that "Sodbuster" is the driver of the microbus." I've always taken it to mean that, too. (*plays the iTunes...*) Yep: it's the only Microbus mentioned, & it follows bang on the mention of the "friends of Jesus".  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  16:41 & 16:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Wrong Facts!
The main article is about the 2004 version/nearly identical 1975 version (C.W. McCall's version, that is) of the song by Paul Brandt, But forgetting the other version! In the Original, the "rubber duck" was driving a Mack, not a Kenworth! And, if you have seen the movie or any of the videos on Youtube, you'll know that the original goes through more in less time than the one Paul Brandt did his take of the song. Point is, whoever wrote this article wrote off the other version of the song as ficticious! Note: if the article is edited to include the correct info, please remove this section.


 * I have never heard the Paul Brandt version. I have never before heard of Paul Brandt. All I remember of the movie is that it had Kris Kristofferson in it and that it was disappointing.  The original song begins with a Kenworth carrying timber, a refrigerated cab-over Peterbilt, and a GMC carrying live pigs (Pig Pen).  "Rubber Duck" is driving either the Kenworth or the Peterbilt.  There is no Mack at the beginning; in fact I do not remember a Mack being mentioned anywhere in the song. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 13:17, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * "I have never heard the Paul Brandt version. I have never before heard of Paul Brandt. " Ditto. And I've got it on my iTunes: "dark of the moon on the 6h of June in a Kenworth hauling pullin' logs", followed by a cabover Pete with a reefer & a Jimmy hauling hogs. The narrator, The Duck, expressly says he's in the K-whomper. No Mack.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  05:52 & 05:54, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Another Version?
This article is all about the version that was the radio hit. The lyrics at the end of the movie are completely different. It starts with them being in New Mexico. 60.229.143.109 (talk) 09:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

New Jersey?
The article says: "The convoy begins toward "Flagtown" (Flagstaff, Arizona or Flagtown, New Jersey as the song ends in NJ) at night on June 6 on "I-one-oh" (I-10) just outside "Shakytown" (Los Angeles, California, due to its earth tremors)."

The I-10 doesn't go near New Jersey, and the convoy is heading west to east and New Jersey is in the east. Therefore, isn't it pretty unlikely that the convoy starts near Flagtown New Jersey? So that should probably be changed to "The convoy begins toward "Flagtown" (Flagstaff, Arizona) at night...". 114.198.7.139 (talk) 01:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Late to this but: 1) if you were leaving LA headed for New Jersey, you would start on I-10 for forty-fifty miles. 2) I-10 doesn't go all that near Flagstaff, AZ either. And if you tell Google Maps to navigate from LA to Flagtown, NJ, you pass through Flagstaff, AZ anyway. So leaving LA on I-10 East works either way.

("The" I-10 is a Southern California turn of phrase and I refuse to use it.) 73.222.16.201 (talk) 02:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC)


 * It's an interesting route the song mentions I10 from Shakey town (LA) which will take you all the way east before you will have to go north to NJ but for some reason the convoy goes north via 44 through Tulsa town (Tulsa OK) presumably taking 20 to Dallas then 35 to OKC to get on to 44. We know they make it to Chicago (chitown) so presumably the get off 44 and onto 55 in St Louis.  Which is interesting because we learn later in the song that The duck lost track of pigpen who probably headed north off 44 on 49 around Joplin through KSC to get to Omaha NE.  From here on out the only direction we get is the reference to laying a strip towards the jersey shore (Burning rubber).  Now it only makes sense that they would travel I90 until it turns into I80 and run that all the way until he would have to get off on state highway 209 or 206 to get to Flag town NJ.  But the question is why take I10 in the first place.  When you can catch 15, 40, 44, 70 (avoiding most of IL), 76, 78 and make it in a day and a half.  Or if it's he just likes 10 why not take 10 all the way to FL then get on 95 and off on the 206.  So was it perhaps the interstates weren't completed when the song was written? 173.16.106.107 (talk) 09:35, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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