Top 10 Date-Specific Songs

“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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• Top 10 Date-Specific Songs

  • ‘September,’ (Sept. 21)
  • ‘Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,’ (Sept. 3)
  • ‘(If Lovin’ You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right,’ (Jan. 1)
  • ‘Convoy,’ (June 6)
  • ‘Ode to Billie Joe,’ (June 3)
  • ‘Desiree,’ (June 3)
  • ‘Pride (In the Name of Love),’ (April 4)
  • ‘First of May,’ (May 1)
  • ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,’ (May 10)
  • ‘Yankee Rose,’ (July 4)

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