Completely Conspicuous

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we travel back in time and analyze a big hit from the 1970s. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from A.C. Newman and Yuck. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world headquarters - The return of song analysis - What's the deal with Bette Midler? - Woody Allen's curious role in Scenes From a Mall - Check out Ric's podcast More Lost Time - Trucking was a big pop culture fad for a few years in the '70s - C.W. McCall's "Convoy" was such a big hit they made a movie based on it - Discovered by the dude behind the Mannheim Steamroller - McCall didn't sing so much as talk over music - Sounds like Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia" - Convoy did indeed have a soundtrack album - Digging deeper into the McCall catalog - Randy Travis is walking the walk - Ric: Zappa music just sounds like commercials - Ol' C-Dub just kept on making trucker songs - McCall starts doing really bad accents of foreign truckers - He wrote a song about the infamous G