Asymmetric Music

In honor of Obama's latest vehicular victim, Jim Johnson, here are the some "bus songs" I could find on short notice:

Before Obama throws anybody off of one, he has to wait for the bus to arrive. One does that at the bus stop, one of which the Hollies sang so well about.

Hollies - Hollies Greatest Hits

The most famous "bus song," I think, is by the Who who sang about a magic one. Obama's public eloquence and ability to bring together diverse groups of graduate students from humanities departments across the nation has sometimes been called "magical" which makes The Magic Bus particularly appropriate.

Magic Bus

Gladys Knight sings about trains, not buses, in The Midnight Train to Georgia, but since the Amtrak schedule shows no direct route from L.A. to Georgia, one has no other on-land, mass transit option to Georgia than the bus.

Essential Collection

Here's Roger Daltry doing another "bus song" with somebody definitely not of his generation.

The Wheels on the Bus

I remember loving Double Dutch Bus in the eighties. The improvisation in the middle is fascinating.

Double Dutch Bus

The Decemberists opened for Obama in Portland and they have a song about a bus.

Billy Liar

I'll end this modest roundup with country singer Sara Evans singing The Back of the Greyhound Bus.

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