The Bus Stop Song

"The Bus Stop Song" (also known as "A Paper of Pins") is a popular song. The title references the movie, Bus Stop, in which it was introduced.

A traditional song, it was orchestrated by Ken Darby in 1956 but a version (called The Keys of Canterbury) was known in the 19th century and Alan Lomax collected it as "A Paper of Pins" in the 1930s.

It is best known in a recording, made on July 17, 1956, by The Four Lads and dubbed over the opening credits of the movie, with some of its lyrics also included in early dialogue. This recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40736. It first reached the Billboard charts on September 15, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #17; on the Best Seller chart, at #22; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #23. The flip side was "A House with Love in It." [1]

References

Whitburn, Joel (2000-11-01). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (7th Rev. ed.). Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-7690-1.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2000-11-01). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (7th Rev. ed.). Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-7690-1.

The Four Lads
Don Farrar Aaron Bruce Frank Busseri Alan Sokoloff James F. Arnold Corrado Codarini Johnny D'Arc Sid Edwards John Bernard Toorish
Studio albums	On the Sunny Side Breezin' Along Swing Along Everything Goes!!!
Singles	"The Mocking Bird" "Somebody Loves Me" "Faith Can Move Mountains" [with Johnnie Ray] "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" "Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea" "Skokiaan" "Moments to Remember" "No, Not Much!" "Standing On the Corner" "My Little Angel" "A House with Love in It" "The Bus Stop Song" "Who Needs You?" "I Just Don't Know" "Put a Light in the Window" "There's Only One of You" "Enchanted Island" "My Heart's Symphony"