C.W. McCall - Greatest Hits
The linkage between consumerism and popular music finds a strange analogue in William Fries, a.k.a. C.W. McCall. Trained in graphic design and advertising, Fries invented his trucker persona while working on a bakery ad campaign and helped drive the trucker craze of the ’70s with a slew of novelty tunes, few of which have aged very well. McCall described his delivery as a “walkin’, talkin’ singin’ style,” though emphasis always falls on his deadpan spoken wit. McCall never took himself seriously, and tunes like “Crispy Critters” and “‘Round the World with the Rubber Duck” will inspire a laugh at just how weird the ’70s could be. –Roy Kasten Customer Review: What a great find! Back in high school, yes too many years to be counting!!! This was one that we enjoyed listening to. Lots of fun. I’ve now introduced my teenage boys to these fun musical stories, and they are played over and over and OVER!!! Nice to have a family CD in the car that everyone enjoys!!! Fun entertainment for the kids and adults alike. Looking for the rest of the songs to be released as well!!!

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There Goes a Mail Truck
Customer Review: Very graphic video re U S postal Services Actor/Producer Dave Hood and actress Becky Borg do a great job taking the “mail” from the corner mail box from the sender to the addressee (geared for kids 3-8),it gives info not interested to their age groups about the different acroynms and not enough for an older kid ,since it’s limited to delivering the mail to “one residential street”–however Hood and Borg ’s antics are the equal of any slapstick comedy with info which is accurate and good to know.

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There Goes a Fire Truck
This excellent installment in Dave Hood’s There Goes a… series of children’s videos finds “Firefighter Dave” learning the ins and outs of a real firefighter’s life. Taking the viewer on an extensive tour of various kinds of firetrucks (the ones with ladders, the ones that store everything from traffic cones to oxygen tanks), Hood also introduces us to a few of the heroic folks who risk their lives on the job. We see the rapid process by which firefighters (male and female, incidentally) get from their comfortable bunks in the station house into their protective gear, then hit the road and fight those raging flames. (We also learn that when these public servants aren’t out saving lives and property, they’re doing mundane, home-like chores at the station.) The result is a deservingly noble portrait of the firefighting profession. This is one of the liveliest of the There Goes a… productions, and the balance of verbal instruction against the sheer rush of seeing firetrucks on the move is perfect. –Tom Keogh Customer Review: Excellente!!!!!! (Spanish Translation: Excellent!) Even though I’ll be turning 15 on Feb. 1 of this year, I still think this is a GREAT and wonderfully WACKY video. I’ll switch to the Real Wheels series on DVD, sometime. Dave Hood, you’re excellent, even to someone who might be too old for these series!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always Say Please and Thank You
Customer Review: ‘That Old Weird America’ Slim Cessna plies the oddest brand of C & W I’ve ever heard. Odd even in the sense that he makes Kinky Friedman’s Texas Jewboys sound like graduates of the Tabernacle choir. Slim’s reedy, nasal whine, his hollers, yodels and confessional, lower register banter, sit perfectly within the brilliantly performed, C & W mode. It’s a mode that only takes my interest in special circumstances. The much neglected & under-recorded Paul Siebel springs to mind. And here, it’s the manic humour of Slim’s delivery. Mainstream religious thoughts are rarely evoked in everyday speech, that aside from song, in Australia.(Which makes the sanctimony of G.W Bush’s invoking of the Lord in his addresses to the nation, doubly ridiculous & insincere from this hemisphere). So much of Slim’s ravings assume an intensity, an irreverance & irony that may not be his intention. Witnessing a live show would dispell these issues, but that’s an improbalility for me. It wouldn’t dispell the intoxicating music and the humour. Although an air of country carnival pervades the disc, there’s a superficial resemblance to the, the Verve; possibly a silly point, like saying Willard Grant Conspiracy is like Nic Cave.

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