Cledus Maggard - The White Knight
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Cledus Haggard and the Citizen Band
The White Knight (1976)
1. Kentucky Moonrunner
2. Mercy Day
3. C.B. Rock
4. The White Knight
5. Jaw Jackin'
6. Who We Got On That End (You the Only Friend I Got)
7. Cledus's C.B. Lingo Dictionary
8. C.B. '76
I bought an old camper and this cassette was in the tape player. I drove my wife crazy with this shit😂
If she doesn't like them trucker songs, is she the one? 😂
Brings back memories from 1976
I found this cassette in my grandpa's truck, when I was a child. Me and him would listen to this tape every time we drove somewhere. Camping, hunting, or just goin out shooting on a weekend. Now I'm a grown man and my grandpa can barely walk,. Such great meaningful memories. I'm crying just listening to this.
Wow, what an awesome story/memory sir. ❤️
Truly.
Do you still have your grandpa?
I have an album from when I was like 8yrs old and this song is on it. Back then I used to think the song was weird compared to the others. When I rediscovered it as an adult years ago I found an unexpected application for it. 👍
I had it on 8 track
This was on cassette with a bunch of other trucking songs. Loved it
😂😂😂😂 hahahahaha 🤣🤣
Oh Mercy 😂😂🤣🤣
CB Radio = internet of the 70's and 80's
April Ramsey Ashcraft Indeed it was! Remember all the hilarious crap the was spread by way of Fax machines in the 80's and 90's?
I sure do!
April Ramsey Ashcraft Good thinking there girl It sure was fun, still is for me !!
+April Ramsey Ashcraft yep, your right about that ! I miss the CB era !
+April Ramsey Ashcraft That Is True.
Haven't heard this song in 45-50 years.
Better than I remember! Love it!
A friend shared this with me back in 1976. I listened to it a lot and still know the lyrics!!
You just can't explain those days. C.W. McCall with Convoy and the whole CB radio craze. It was a lot of fun as a 13 year old kid, that's for sure!! Sonny Pruitt, BJ & the Bear. Sheriff Lobo on TV. Smokey and the Bandit (of course).
This song brings back a lot of good memories!!
In ‘76 I had a two album set , filled with trucking songs, titled “Truckin’on”
The album cover featured an artist drawn, really cool looking black and orange Kenworth.
The song “white knight” was on one of the albums , I had to get the Cledus album after hearing this song..
Great memories , for sure ,
Good Buddy ! ,
P.S. don’t forget about the movies, Duel, .. Moonfire… and HiJack !
Well I jammed my stick, I lost 20 quick you could hear them gears a tearin’
I love this because my Dad was an OTR trucker for about 25 years and I grew up with all these songs
This song never stops being hysterical!
Found a cassette tape about 12 years ago with a ton of Truckin songs and The "White Knight" is one of my favorite songs. Used to get drunk and bumpin these classics Me being a 36 y/o and a skateboarder & all my friends always ask my "what the hell am I listening too" I say, "some of the greatest music ever made" they just laugh. The classic Truckin music. No one makes music like they did back then it's to bad because 80% of today's music is crap!
Yogi Demis hello my name is Chrissy. I have been trying to find copy of that tape. It never went to CD. Please send me that list.
A masterpiece in it's own right. That 'Muttley' laugh...
..."FORTY MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT...you boys gonna be here a spell..."
I hear he busted some guy from Kentucky for doing 104 miles over. He celebrated with some whiskey and KFC. :)
@@ClarkeMarek 159 mph? uh huh
@@robertmorris8997 yeah, guy hauling chickens and moonshine out of Kentucky.
LOL I used to wear out this song, and many other trucker songs, on an 8-Track I owned that had a ton of these on it. 8D
The younger kids might have to Google 8-Track, LOL
Lmao ya when we talk and had family day
Still got my 8-track's
My parents' 8-track with this song on it probably still exists in their collection of stuff.
I still have mine from Radio shack it had all the cb songs on it
Me too! Was that one called "Put the Hammer Down"? Because that's the name of the 8-track I had.
This is a cool song from the CB era of the 1970's !
I was a professional trucker for forty years and CB use was like this and smokey and the bear godbless jerry reed.Hale to the olden days
I love that laugh of
the White Knight! Sure miss those trucking days and the great trucker's music too.
I was married to a trucker.. the songs here are so real and right. TY for the uploads.. awesome music,
Great country classic from the winter of 1976....R.I.P. Mr. Maggard
He and C.W. McCall in the same year
I remember this song when it first came out. My dad would laugh and laugh when he heard it.
I love these trucker songs! We use to listen to them all the time when I was growing up! (60's and on up) Back in the days when a song told a story! It was like a musical book! Love them all!
back when trucking was a whole more funner
+? ?? you got that right ! I bought my first CB back in 1977 and my handle is Bandit !
Got that right!!!!!!!!!
+Lloyd Dailey My grandpa was the Rubber Duckie, and he announced himself in his "imitation love wagon", a 1964 Ford Fairlane fabricated into a Ranchero. Never patented his name, and a couple years later he lost it when C.W. McCall recorded "Convoy".
+Parker Raehal those some of our best days of our lives ! better days then today !
Grandpa drove internationals
I memorized the lyrics and remember them 40 years later. Every once in a while I suddenly say them in front of a few friends. They think I’m crazy…lol😂
I'm crazy like that too. oh well---im. it gonna turn 58..I'm just gonna. be 29-again!
One way that made this song even funnier back in the record player days was to play it at 78 speed!
Back in the good ol days . . Yea, now a days, "Good Buddy" is fighting words
man I miss truck driving.!
Robert Duerr well Robert I know what you mean, just last week it was 20 years sense I sold my Pete. And I'm thinking about doing it again 80% good times! not bad life !
I miss it too
For the first time, I noticed the line about how the CB was kind of a Japanese toy, that made truckers think they could be casual and lawless. Sure worked.
I had the record when I was a little fella...loved the truck driving songs. Love the old cabovers!🥰
I laughed my rear off the first time I herd this back in1976, still laughing today!!! love it!! thanks for posting it!!!
Man! What a blast from the past. It doesn't get any better than this.
Wow, blast from the past, i have this on 45..everytime i hear it i smile..memories!
+FreakofFury I have this on a 45 somewhere, but it was great to find this on UA-cam so I could live a fond memory. This came out when I was probably in the third grade.
+Jeff Campbell lol..when we were kids back in OH my best friends dad was a trucker. When my buddy's dad wasn't on the road in his old Mack truck, we'd sit in the cab and play this and we'd sing to this word for word, laughing and carrying on...and mess around on the cb radio..hehe
+FreakofFury Ha! I'm from Ohio myself.
I've got it on 8-track, cassette and CD.
+speakers79 I could probably download that onto a blank CD.
Citizens Band - Old School Chat Room!
I performed the Cotton Picker's part in a band called Double Nickels at the Hitch 'n' Rail in the mid 70s. That club was located about halfway between St. Paul and Hudson WI on I-94 when it was still open access highway. Ed Alberg (RIP) was the club owner. The other band members are still with us and in the Twin Cities. Our band was inducted into the MidAmerica Music Hall of Fame in 2010. If Cledus Maggard ever reads this, a huge tip of the hat. That was a happier time.
Sadly, I think he passed away.
@@ClarkeMarekYes, I see he passed in 2008.
Where do I begin? This song is like a country music acid trip between the key and temp changes and these insane lyrics. I love how he calls out the best things in the world is 1. Beaver (vagina) 2. Hot biscuits 3. Merle Haggard. In a 70s country music song! I have to wonder if Cleddus was a truck driver IRL. Wonderful details, like going so fast he was throwing the gravel out of his tires. Like a lot of people I heard this on my dad's trucker song cassette tape back in the 70s. Memories 😏
I'm 24 and I keep my ears on. Got a Cobra 29 with all the bells and whistles.
got pulled over in texas by a DPS officer, he was working his 2 18hour shift and he wanted it to know I had any stay-a-wakes, I gave him 3 and never had a problem driving across I-40 in texas.
they are human too
Dang. Two 18's in a row? And they're supposed to stay alert and coherent enough to do their job? Well, I guess we know he could be a truck driver if he had to.
Raymond Dowd u are stupid
I'm on my second 18 hour shift right now... one of the last real small town taxi's .. covering all of lassen county in the northeast of California.
I haven't heard this song in years. Thanks for posting.
One day in 1976 they played this song back to back all day long on the radio. I was working with my buddy's and we learned every word. Here it is 2012 and I still remember it. Great funny song! Never thought it would be on youtube. Way to go! Keep on truckin. Thanks for the trip back in the day!
Loved listening to this beautiful song on the old WAXU radio station out of Georgetown, KY. Picked it up in Midway, KY. Those were the days!
My mother listened to WAXU out of Georgetown, we lived in Versailles!
This Song Went To Number 19 On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart In 1976.
+Raymond Malcuit Jr. And it went all the way to number one over on the 'Hot Country Singles' chart exactly forty years ago today, on the BILLBOARD entertainment magazine issue for the week ending Saturday, February 14, 1976.
I had never heard of it..
Use to listen to these old songs when I drove a truck, I only drove for three years but i miss it all the time. Once it gets in your blood it's there to stay. Trucking just didnt work for my family anymore hats off to all you big strappers out there keep the dirty side down
these songs kept me going during my 25 years over the road...now I have nearly all driving songs.
I used to go to a restaurant in Lawton, ok when I drove a 5 ton Army truck just to hear this song.
You can tell we is gettin old, how bout it Good Buddy's? 10-4 Over & Out..
never call a trucker a good buddy a good buddy is a gay guy who services truckers.
Back in the 70s good buddy didn't mean that. It took on the pejorative meaning sometime in the early 80s. I wonder why"?
"About the time I hit 92 I saw something flashing in my rear view Thought to myself that can't be true but there it was going BLUE BLUE BLUE...Uh oh...Bubble gum machine done hit the jackpot..."
1975 to 1977 were the golden years for CB radio songs. The 1970’s had both the greatest and some of the worst songs every recorded, but I’d give anything to return to those days. It’s funny to think that when this song was recorded there was a producer in the recording booth saying, “Man! This is gonna be a gold record!”
"Whoa there now good buddy, that there's fightin' talk! I'll get right up there and blow your doors off!"
God bless anyone who listened to it and God bless the guys who made it !!!!
Oh Lord I miss those days!!!
Got my start in a GMC cab-over. Then a freightliner. I love pumping diesel when it's 5 degrees and a twenty mile an hour wind... Oh those were the day's...
* cassette?! Y'all make me laugh. I listen to this on 8-track over and over and over...!* 🫶🍀🤞👍
That song was on one of my favorite 8 track tapes!
Hit #1 country, #19 pop, in Billboard. Only top 40 pop hit for Cledus. God bless!
My dad loved this song and would often recite the words to me any time we were talking about cops and/or speeding tickets.
Break 1-9 good buddy of mine you got a smoky in a plain white wrapper…
Love you dad. Miss you…
This tune has some of the cleverest lyrics and rhymes I've ever heard. Great stroy, great performance by Cledus Maggard.
This guy is a funny poet, story-telling balladeer. Just discovered his talents in the last year.
I grew up on this song. Mom had a 2 LP set called "Truckin' On" filled with trucking songs. I wish I could get on CD all those songs.
I have it on Vinyl ordered it when I was little... but some of the songs were shortened to fit
go to the truckstops they always have truckin cds
Good idea, except I might wait several months as I lost my Mom last week and it might be hard to listen to those songs soon.
+Bedford Crenshaw sorry for your loss my friend :(
Thanks dude. She also raised me on Statler Brothers, which will make them hard to listen to as well. I had two Statler songs played at her funeral: Amazing Grace for the 1st song, and "I'll Go to My Grave Loving You" as the 3rd and last. It was my eulogy to her, but I can't help but wonder if her ghost encouraged me to choose that song so that it was her last words to me as well.
Me and my dad had to move trucks cross country when this song was new ...Had a blast with it.
10 - 4 there good buddy what,s your 20 ?
Down 75 or 85
Or I-20 t'other way
Turn your squelch to the right
And in the night
You'll hear some good buddy say
"Breaker breaker
Got a picture taker
All Smokeys at forty three."
It's that Japanese toy
The trucker's joy
That everybody calls CB
Yeah, Citizen's Band, keeps you up to date
On fender benders and Tijuana taxis
And all them bears out there. Flip flop
Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife
On the list of the ten best things in life
Your CB's gotta rate right around number four
'Course beavers and hot biscuits and Merle Haggard
Come one, two, three, you know
Well I was loaded down, coming outta Lake City;
I was checkin' out seat covers, young and pretty
When all of a sudden there come a call
Over my CB, ringin' wall to wall
Said clove her double nickels till you hit the ridge
'Cause there's a Smokey picture taker t'other side of the bridgeOh mercy, 'ppreciate that, good buddy;
What's your handle there, come on?
You got any county mounties out there prowlin', come on?"
And he said --
"Ten four...back door
Put the peddle to the metal and...let it roar
Hammer down...to Macon town...
Gonna see my momma...sure
Well, the bears are gone
Let's...bring it on...
The Georgia line's...out of sight
Pulled outta Richmond town last Saturday night
And my handle is...the White Knight
How 'bout it?"
"All right, White Knight, hammer down
You got the mean machine here."
I was a streakin'
My needle was a peakin'
A right around seventy nine
That old diesel juice
Was a gettin' loose
And everything was fine
But wall to wall
I got a call
Front door, big bear trapper
Said, "Break one nine
Good buddy of mine
You got a Smokey in a plain white wrapper." Well I jammed my stick
I lost twenty quick;
You could hear them gears a tearin'
I got passed by a beaver
And a Camaro
I was cruisin' alone
And going so slow
I could count every button on that frilly blouse she was wearin'
'Course there weren't but one
"Hey there, super trooper!
Yeah -- that's the crafty Smokey over there with a CB of his own
Hey White Knight, let's slide one on the super trooper, come on?"
"Ten four, back door
Put the peddle to the metal, whatcha...waitin' for?
That old flop
Can't stay in sight
Gonna leave you here and say no more
How 'bout it?"
"Whoa, now, buddy, that's fightin' talk
I'd get up there and blow your doors off!"
Well I hammered down like I had wings
Little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, ping
'Bout the time I hit ninety-two
Saw something flashing' in my rear view
Thought to myself that can't be true
But there it was, old blue, blue, blueUh oh. Bubble gum machine done hit the jackpot
Well I could see that bear, laughing big
Hangin' in tight on the back of my rig
Right there and then it came to be wall to wall
Mm-hmm
So in that cold dark Georgia night
In the shadows of Smokey bear's blue light
I 'cided to make me just one more CB call
"Breaker one nine for the super trooper
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm right
Are you my front door? Are you the White Knight? Come on?"
And he said --
"Ten four, back door
You're in a heap of trouble boy...that's for sure
Gonna read you your rights, and treat you fair
Pull over there
With your...rockin' chair
Want you boys to know each other real well
'Cause you gonna be sharin' the same jail cell
You make twelve cotton pickers I've caught tonight
From the front door of that White Knight
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
How 'bout it?
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
Forty miles over the speed limit!
You boys gonna be here a spell
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!"
This takes me back in the day KOB
77 out of Albuquerque, N.M. had an program after Midnight played Truck Driving Music and had Ads for various '76' Trucks Stops across the
U.S.(This was in the'70s)
And Recollection was the Show was
'Jock Radio'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this song like three months ago and I play it all the time love the crap out of it!!!!!
OMG, I had this album, been looking for this song since the internet. Awesome, it brings back some great memories.
Red Sovine ( I think its spelled that way )had put out a lot of trucker songs back then . My dad being a trucker I heard them all . "Giddy up Go" is the one I remember most .
Chuck Yoder giddy up go that one will bring a tear to your eye
So will Teddy Bear and Phantom 309.
Any buddy here 2019 no... ok just me😖
I'm here
Right here.
Emilee musgrave I m hear in 2020
@@LolLol-by4wv
Right here 10:4
It doesnt matter what year you're in. As long as this song is here everything is okay.
Saw ole Cledus down in Atlanta years back. Amazing the man does all the voices in his songs!
I played drums in a band here in Kentucky, in 1999, called Mudflap-and we did a hell of a version of this- the thing was! I didn't hear this version until 2006- this is glorious- the leader of our band preferred that if we hadn't heard the original versions of our covers, that we didn't listen to them while we were making ours! what a blast
had this on 8 track back in 1976 ,Have not heard this since my tape busted in 1980
just discovered these old songs I think there great
Aaaahhhh I love cabovers
Love all the tunes these guys made,ha ha
Take a walk down memory lane, 70s cb songs. This is a great one.
Love it thought I'd heard them all I love how he singing about all real highways in Georgia 92 85 20 75 all there
One of my favorite trucking Songs, listened to this all the time
This song always put a smile om my face. After CB Radio, I moved on to Ham Radio. :-)
This is the most hilarious, creative piece of work I have ever heard. This song is timeless even though the old cb has come and gone....
Was lucky enough to see him live in Richmond Virginia. I think I was about 13. 😂
I remember 1976.. 11 years old. Dad had a CB.. Car, and base.. i was hooked too..
My dad had this record when I was a kid. I remember playing it on the record player. My mom still has the album. Picture is the album cover I remember for sure; front and back. Several funny songs on that album. Kentucky Moonrunner was one of my faves! I was born in 1977, so it pre-dates me by a year. Good stuff!
I remember when that first aired! Classic. Thanks for sharing!
You got that right. Life was so much better back then. Lots of good positive times in those days.
Citizens Band keeps you up there with all those Fender Benders! LOL
Pure Genius! Brilliant
Miss those evenings sitting out in my dad's station wagon talking to a girl with the handle Puppy Love back in the mid seventies.
Wish I woulda bought this back in '76. Some funny stuff on this whole album.
DonTittle-I learned to drive a tractor-trailer @13. Dad taught me on the way across west Texas going into N.M. inanold Pete cabover w/ a quad-turbo KTA Cummins and a 15 spd. double o.d. That was in 1977 and I had to give-up driving due to health reasons in 2010. This music sure brings back memories.
Good tune! My Dad sent me this! He said it was one that they used to listen to all the time on the radio.
thanks for bringing back those memories,i totally for about cledus..I even had this album what a time
Met my wife on the CB in 1977. She was 14 and I was 15, still together after 41 yrs. Oh and by the way, still have those 23 channel CB's we met on. Been quite a ride.
I remember hearing this song every so often out west on the am radio skip while running all night. It would play on the Dave Nemo Show.
A true classic but this is the "short" version. I still have the 45 of the long version. I sing this song all the time, even when I'm out driving.
A tale of entrapment. A good lawyer could have gotten the Mean Machine sprung.
+Jeff Madden need perry mason. not mine
Not Perry, Matlock. It IS in the South.
Jeff Madden that’s some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever read! Lmfao
Sounds like they were taking US 6 through Bowling Green, OH, where cops have been known to close the highway and send all traffic (going over the speed limit, with the flow) onto an exit ramp to a fleet of waiting squad cars.
What? You mean there's such a thing as a "Good Lawyer"?!? All a bunch of 'em wanna do is do a halfway job on your case, and charge ya a real high price for slipshod work...if that's whatcha wanna call it!
I had this very lp as a kid and loved then and love now
My mom worked with his niece who got him to send me an autographed copy of his album.
those were the fun days !
I remember hearing this on the top 40!
my handle is pink lightning :) headed for miami in january :) i love trucks and cb's
Kentucky Moon Runner was another good one on this album. So many!!
This guy's got better bars than most rappers today, lol
I have been listening to this song for as long as it has been out.
I now live in Lake City that was spoken about as it is only a 45 min drive to the Georga state line.
LOL this bring back memories I had a cb then. My handle was peppermint patty.
CB radio is still alive and well. Not so much with the truckers (my trucker colleagues usually turn it off), but I’m still on here in CT. They call me, “Pintle Hitch”. Catch me on channel 35
I love it when the cop says How bout it.
Jay Huguely hit #19 in Billboard, 3-13-76. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
The best never rest. I really like this song
I have been looking for this for so long. Couldn't remember the singer. I'm in all my glory right now.