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The Hollies — Bus Stop
Album: Bus Stop
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Released: 1966
Length: 2:51
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Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella

All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

That's the way the whole thing started
Silly but it's true
Thinkin' of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue

Came the sun the ice was melting
No more sheltering now
Nice to think that that umbrella
Led me to a vow

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought
Other people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella

All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August, she was mine
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As a teen I never understood "someday my name and hers are going to be the same".  Of course, I was thinking of first names.  Years later I still thought it was absurd and never saw the point in changing my last name when I got married!
The Hollies were Pop 'straits' as I would have called them back in those days.

On the 'wrong' side of commercialism - no thanks.

By contrast, the Kinks got it just about right.

Graham Gouldman is a genius. Still performing, saw him in the Amsterdam concertgenouw
Sounds always as good as when I heard it on the radio for the first time, long long ago  {#Smile}
Graham Nash performed this last weekend at hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Well into his 70s he can still sing this song quite well. The 60s have never really left and not too surprisingly, the audience was mostly composed of those who heard this on the radio when it was new.
 westslope wrote:
Was probably 11 when I first heard this song via CFRA, an AM radio station in Ottawa.

 
Was the song introduced by Ken "the General" Grant?
YAAAAAAYYYYY! 
Saw Graham Nash the other night and he did this song. {#Hearteyes} 
Written by Graham Gouldman, later of 10cc.
After all these years I thought they were singing  "Bus stop Busco" - like some lady of the night by the nickname of "Busco" who hung around bus shelters touting for business.  Or was that some 70's episode of The Streets of San Franciso I am think about?
When I saw 10cc rock a trippy venue in Yokohama about 15 years or so ago, Mr. Graham Gouldman revealed that he had written this massive hit — and then they all threw the switch into Time-Machine Mode and took us all back there for a few minutes!  WAY EPIC...
During the height of The British Invasion, this 'popped' out of the radio.  {#Wink}
 watme wrote:
See him performing this at the NPR Tint Desk Concert he did recently.
 
Hmmm.  Graham Gouldman, Allan Clarke, or Graham Nash?
Early "stereo" album? I'm just noticing that the vocals are almost entirely in the left channel, instrumentals mostly in the right. See Ma: it really is different in each speaker! No more mono for me!
My best friend was a resident of The Hollies, a home for .......wayward....boys. His father was the Director.
This is only of interest because Adam Faith was at some point a res.
In any event, the Hollies was my mate's favourite group by far, vs Da Stones down the road, or Der Beatles up North.
 Far wrote:

CFRA oh yeah. General Grant. Middle of the night radio plays...sleepy in school...

 
Forward Ho!
Perfect pop. 
 westslope wrote:
Was probably 11 when I first heard this song via CFRA, an AM radio station in Ottawa.

 
CFRA oh yeah. General Grant. Middle of the night radio plays...sleepy in school...
Seems remarkable that I literally heard this 2 days ago in 2016 on AM radio here in Atlanta and then here on RP
https://1690wmlb.com/  if you are looking for something out of the mainstream
I was only 4 when this came out, but I do remember it being fairly big on the radio through the early '70s. Easy to sing along to, simple sentiments, nice arrangements; who wouldn't like it? It was one my parents considered safe, unlike so many other songs of the time...
Was probably 11 when I first heard this song via CFRA, an AM radio station in Ottawa.
Only second play?
Great band great memories from 60s
See him performing this at the NPR Tiny Desk Concert he did recently.
See him performing this at the NPR Tint Desk Concert he did recently.
 
Love the way the drums come in  
Now play Magic Bus by the WHO!  wa-HOOO
{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananajam}Geez, am I really THAT old?  Love this song.
Always a great track. Bringing back great memories from the sixties.{#Roflol}
Great Oldie.  Hmm.... How I met Your Mother!
1st time up for this one?  60's British Invasion is always OK by me.