Bus Stop (song)

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"Bus Stop"
West German picture sleeve
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[2]
StudioEMI, London
Genre
Length2:53
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

UK Singles Chart.[6] It was the Hollies' first US top ten hit,[7]
reaching No. 5 on the Billboard charts in September 1966. In Canada the song reached No. 1 and was their second top ten hit there.

Background

"Bus Stop" was written by

Cash Box described the song as a "rollicking, hard-driving bluesy weeper with a plaintive, melodic undercurrent."[11]

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.[12]

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'."[13]

Chart history

References

  1. ^ The History of The Hollies: 24 Genuine Top Thirty Hits (Vinyl sleeve). The Hollies. EMI. 1975. Back cover. EMSP 650.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ The 30th Anniversary Collection (CD). The Hollies. EMI Records. 1993. D 202205.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  4. ISBN 978-0253026590
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  5. ^ Steffen Hung. "The Hollies - Bus Stop". Norwegiancharts.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  6. ^ "Hollies information page". Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
  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.
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  9. ^ Echard 2017, p. 26.
  10. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. 9 July 1966. p. 16. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  11. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 16 July 1966. p. 36. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  12. ISBN 0-86007-378-5
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  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "AMR Top Singles of 1966".
  15. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - September 5, 1966" (PDF).
  16. ISBN 951-31-2503-3
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  17. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – ___". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  18. ^ "The Hollies – Bus Stop" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  19. ^ "Flavour of New Zealand, 30 September 1966". Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  20. ^ "The Hollies – Bus Stop". VG-lista.
  21. ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Songs (A-B)".
  22. ISBN 91-630-2140-4
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  23. ^ "The Hollies - Bus Stop". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  24. ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  25. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 24, 1966". Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  26. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Hollies – Bus Stop" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON The Hollies"
  27. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  28. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 24, 1966". Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
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