“It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June” when a CB-chatting character called C.W. McCall (the creation of adman Bill Fries) joined a convoy of bad mother truckers (and, improbably, 11 longhaired Friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus) in sticking it to the Man by putting the hammer down and ramming through a toll gate. That the truckers sounded weirdly like poultry-throwing Muppets in their celebration over the chorus coda does not take away from the novelty-story song’s immortality.
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