Bus Stop (song)

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"Bus Stop"
Bus Stop - The Hollies.jpg
Single by the Hollies
from the album Bus Stop
B-side"Don't Run and Hide"
Released17 June 1966 (1966-06-17)[1]
Recorded18 May 1966
EMI Studios[2]
Genre
Length2:51
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Graham Gouldman
Producer(s)Ron Richards[5]
The Hollies singles chronology
"I Can't Let Go"
(1966) 		"Bus Stop"
(1966) 		"After the Fox"
(1966)

"Bus Stop" is a song recorded and released as a single by the British rock band The Hollies in 1966. It reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart.[6] It was the Hollies' first US top ten hit,[7] reaching No. 5 on the Billboard charts in September 1966.

Background[]

"Bus Stop" was written by UK songwriter and future 10cc member Graham Gouldman, who also penned major hits for The Yardbirds ("For Your Love") and Herman's Hermits ("No Milk Today"), as well as the Hollies' first venture into the US top 40 with "Look Through Any Window". With the release of "Bus Stop" as a single in June 1966, the Hollies joined the trend known as raga rock, a subgenre first popularised by the Beatles, the Byrds and the Kinks.[8] Musicologist William Echard highlights the guitar solo and its sitar-like sound as an indicator of the Indian musical element evident in the song.[9] Billboard said of the single that there was a "good group vocal on this teen-aimed, easy-rocker with more commercial potential than their [earlier single] "I Can't Let Go."[10]

In a 1976 interview Gouldman said the idea for "Bus Stop" had come while he was riding home from work on a bus. The opening lines were written by his father, playwright Hyme Gouldman. Graham Gouldman continued with the rest of the song in his bedroom, apart from the middle-eight, which he finished while riding to work – a men's outfitters – on the bus the next day.[11]

Thirty years later he elaborated on the song's beginnings: "'Bus Stop', I had the title and I came home one day and he (Hyme) said 'I've started something on that Bus Stop idea you had, and I'm going to play it for you. He'd written Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say please share my umbrella and it's like when you get a really great part of a lyric or, I also had this nice riff as well, and when you have such a great start to a song it's kind of like the rest is easy. It's like finding your way onto a road and when you get onto the right route, you just follow it.

"My late father was a writer. He was great to have around. I would write something and always show him the lyric and he would fix it for me. You know, he'd say 'There's a better word than this' – he was kind of like a walking thesaurus as well and quite often, sometimes, he came up with titles for songs as well. 'No Milk Today' is one of his titles, and also the 10cc song 'Art for Art's Sake'."[12]

Chart history[]

Cover versions[]

  • Gouldman included a version of the song on his 1968 debut solo album, The Graham Gouldman Thing.
  • Herman's Hermits (1966)
  • Candies (Japanese language)
  • Classics IV included it on their 1968 album Spooky.
  • Gene Pitney
  • New Age pianist David Lanz covered the song from his 1998 album, Songs from an English Garden.[27]
  • Israeli band Rockfour recorded a Hebrew language version on their 1991 album "Reshet Parparim" (Butterfly Net) called "Cinderella".
  • In 1967, Italian band I Monelli adapted it to Italian as "Sotto il mio ombrello".
  • In 1967, Brazilian band Golden Boys adapted it to Portuguese as "Pensando Nela".[28] This version was covered by Graforreia Xilarmônica in 1998.
  • In 1967, Mexican all-female band Las Chic's adapted it to Spanish as "Esperando El Camión".
  • Also The Guess Who covered this song on a CBC radio show called "The Swingers" in 1967.
  • In January 1988, Yōko Oginome covered this song as the B-side of her single "Stranger Tonight".
  • In 1997, Arjen Anthony Lucassen covered this song from his album Strange Hobby.[29]
  • American country music and country pop singer and songwriter Sylvia did an acoustic cover on her 2002 album Where In The World.
  • In 2010, Filipino Alternative Hip-hop artist Francis Magalona and Alternative Rock artist Ely Buendia covered the song from their album "In Love and War" under Sony Music Philippines.
  • New Zealand/Australian band Dragon covered the song on their album, It's All Too Beautiful (2011).
  • In 2018, rock group Höffmänn covered this song in a hard rock style [30]
  • In 2018 Austrian Pop Rock The MonaLisa Twins of Mona & Lisa Wagner Sisters. from Album MonaLisa Twins Play Beatles & more volume 2.

The B-side "Don't Run and Hide", written by The Hollies' Graham Nash, Allan Clarke and Tony Hicks, was also recorded by the Everly Brothers, released in 1966 on the Two Yanks in England album.

  • On 25 October 2019, Smash Mouth released a cover.
  • In 2019, the Austrian Beatles tribute band Monalisa Twins covered the song.

References[]

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  2. ^ The 30th Anniversary Collection (CD). The Hollies. EMI Records. 1993. D 202205.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn (2019). Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre. ABC-CLIO. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-4408-6579-4.
  4. ^ Echard, William (2017). Psychedelic Popular Music: A History through Musical Topic Theory. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0253026590.
  5. ^ Steffen Hung. "The Hollies - Bus Stop". Norwegiancharts.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 38 - The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. [Part 4] : UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  8. ^ Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0.
  9. ^ Echard 2017, p. 26.
  10. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. 9 July 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  11. ^ George Tremlett (1976). The 10cc Story. Futura. ISBN 0-86007-378-5.
  12. ^ "Good evening and welcome to a very special I Write The Songs here on BBC Radio Wales with me, Alan Thompson". The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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  14. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  15. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – ___". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  16. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Hollies – Bus Stop" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  17. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 30 September 1966
  18. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – The Hollies – Bus Stop". VG-lista.
  19. ^ http://www.rock.co.za/files/sa_charts_1969_1989_songs_(A-B).html
  20. ^ Hallberg, Eric (1993). Kvällstoppen i P3 (1st ed.). Sweden: Drift Musik. ISBN 91-630-2140-4.
  21. ^ "The Hollies - Bus Stop". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  22. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  23. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 24, 1966". Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  24. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Hollies – Bus Stop". GfK Entertainment Charts. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON The Hollies"
  25. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  26. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 24, 1966". Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  27. ^ "Songs from an English Garden overview". Allmusic.com.
  28. ^ "0265 - Pensando Nela - Golden Boys [1967] | 1001 COVERS". 1001covers.blogspot.com.br. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  29. ^ "Strange Hobby - Strange Hobby". ArjenLucassen.com.
  30. ^ "Bus Stop by Höffmänn". Retrieved 12 June 2018.
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