- Was one time mayor of Ouray, Colorado.
- His song, "Convoy", was instrumental in giving rise to the C.B. radio craze in the late '70s.
- In the late 1960s, he wrote a series of story-songs used in TV commercials for Old Home Bakery. The stories involved a fictional long-haul truck driver named "C.W. McCall", from which he took his pseudonym.
- His wife Rena is referenced as "RJ" in the lyrics of the C.W. McCall song "Black Bear Road".
- In an interview he conducted on February 9th 2022 while in palliative hospice care, he gave his blessing for the use of his signature song "Convoy" for the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, with Taste of Country noting that he was "energized and enthusiastic" about the revival of interest in the song and its message.
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