Rubber Duck (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Rubber Duck
Type = Album
Artist = C. W. McCall



Released = 1976
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Polydor Records
Producer = Chip Davis, Don Sears
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ltxuak5khm3v link]
Last album = "Wilderness"
(1976)
This album = "Rubber Duck"
(1976)
Next album = "Roses for Mama"
(1977)

"Rubber Duck" is an album by country musician C. W. McCall, released on Polydor Records in 1976 (see 1976 in music). It is his fourth album, released the same year as "Wilderness", but concentrating on the themes the McCall character was popular for - trucking, as opposed to the various depictions of nature that could be found in "Wilderness". Among others, the album contains the song "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck", a sequel to McCall's earlier wildly popular hit "Convoy", with many humorous and absurd elements added. "Audubon" is a quasi-autobiographical song, while "Ratchetjaw" is a take on trucker slang, with a multitude of CB-related terminology included in the lyrics.

Track listing

# "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" (Bill Fries, Chip Davis) – 4:08
# "Audubon" (Fries, Davis) – 3:41
# "Super Slab Showdown" (Fries, Davis)
# "Windshield Wipers in the Rain" (Fries, Davis) – 3:41
# "Sing Silent Night" (Fries, Davis)
# "Ratchetjaw" (Fries, Davis) – 2:38
# "Nishnabotna" (Fries, Davis)
# "Two-Way Lovin'" (Fries, Davis)
# "Camp Bird Mine" (Fries, Davis) – 3:36
# "Niobrara" (Fries, Davis)

Personnel

* C. W. McCall - Vocals, Design
* Milt Bailey, Christopher Cable, Mike Hirsch, Ruth Horn, Gary Morris, Mel Olsen, Jan Sheldrick, Jerry Smithers, Dick Solowicz, Sarah Westphalen - Vocals
* Chip Davis - Vocals, Drums, Indian Whittle, Producer, Arranger
* Bill Berg, Don Simmons, Terry Wadell - Drums
* Joan Allen, Jackson Berkey - Keyboards
* Jimmy Johnson, Chuck Sanders - Bass
* Eric Hansen - Bass, Harmonica
* Ron Cooley, Ron Steele - 12-String Guitar, Electric Guitar
* Larry Morton - Electric Guitar
* Stu Basore - Steel Guitar
* Bobbie Thomas - Banjo
* Mortimer Alpert, Irene Berudt, Myrtle Bowman, Dorothy Brown, Hugh Brown, Miriam Dufflemeyer, Jinni Eldred, Lucinda Gladics, James Hammond, Joe Landes, Beth McCollum, Barbara Potter, Merton Shatzkin, Alex Sokol, Phillip Wachowski - Strings

Additional personnel

* Don Sears - Producer, Engineer, Design, Photography
* John Boyd, Ron Ubel - Engineers

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/html/rduck.html NarrowGauge.org album information for "Rubber Duck"]