A select few tracks were able to reach outstanding popularity, which led them to top the charts in more than one genre, making them a crossover hit. In 1975, the country novelty song was performed by ...

In January 1976, the Billboard Hot 100 featured an unlikely chart topper. For the week of Jan. 10, 1976, the novelty hit “Convoy” was the No. 1 song, five weeks after making its debut on the chart in ...

Okay, imagine you’re in a boardroom and a musician walks in. He’s wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, and he has a song pitch for you. It’s about a group of trucks, and there’s a lot of inter-truck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlike other popular hits of the era, its backstory and development make the song that much more interesting. "Convoy" is sung by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fries collaborated with Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis on “Convoy”, which is credited to the two of them and the ...