Is there a hit list for the worst car commercials EVER? This one takes the cake.

A young Ron Howard before "Rush."

Born David Pedruska in remote Spencer, Wisconsin, Dave Dudley (1928-2003) turned to country music when his baseball career was dead-ended by an arm injury. After a couple of misses on the National label, he hit pay dirt on Golden Wing Records in 1963 with a novelty trucker tune called “Six Days on the Road,” complete with a naive reference to “little white pills” that was soon edited out.

Along with Red Simpson and Red Sovine, Dudley was a stalwart of the trucker-country genre, returning to the formula regularly with songs such as “Trucker’s Prayer” and this one, “Truck Drivin’ Son of a Gun.” He also charted with his own composition, “Fireball Rolled a Seven,” which some say is about NASCAR legend Fireball Roberts. Like many of Dudley’s records, “Fireball” was never released on CD and is hard to find today.

This 1971 video is from the syndicated television program, That Good Ole Nashville Music, recorded in the old Ryman Auditorium. We don’t know much about the live band except man, they’re good. They really rock it out. It’s great fun, give it a listen.

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