Editing C. W. McCall (section)

==Politics and later life in Ouray==
[[File:Ouray CO Ouray City Hall and Walsh Library 2006 09 13.jpg|thumb|right|[[Ouray City Hall and Walsh Library|Ouray City Hall]], which was created as a replica of the [[Independence Hall]], was restored after a fund-raising campaign led by Bill Fries as mayor]]
Fries and his family vacationed in [[Ouray, Colorado]], during the 1960s.  They then bought a [[summer home]] there after the financial success of "Convoy."  When Fries stopped touring, he retired to Ouray with his family.  In 1986, Fries was elected mayor of the town and served three terms of two years each.  His main achievement as mayor was to restore the historic city hall, which had burned down in 1950.  Another major project was the ''San Juan Odyssey''.  This was an audiovisual exhibition which had originally been a slide show at [[Wright's Opera House]].  C. W. McCall had provided the narration for this in 1979 and it was shown to hundreds of thousands of visitors until the show closed in 1996.  He then revised and digitized the production so that it could be shown in modern formats such as DVD.{{r|BD|RMN|Star}}

On February 9, 2022, while conducting what would be his final interview with ''[[The Drew and Mike Podcast]]'', 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.<ref name="hospice">{{Cite web |date=February 17, 2022 |title='Convoy' Singer C.W. McCall Is in Hospice |url=https://tasteofcountry.com/c-w-mccall-hospice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220155548/https://tasteofcountry.com/c-w-mccall-hospice/ |archive-date=February 20, 2022 |access-date=February 20, 2022 |website=Taste of Country}}</ref>