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 George Brett "pine tar incident"

• Bonehead of the Week

Music:
A.C. Newman - I'm Not Talking

Yuck - Shook Down

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The A.C. Newman song is on the forthcoming album Shut Down the Streets on Matador Records. Download it for free from MatadorRecords.com.

The Yuck song is on the band's self-titled album on Fat Possum Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.