(ABC Primetime, 1961 - 1962) [There was a 1956 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Hope Lange and Don Murray who meet in a Phoenix western saloon; but this TV series directed by Robert Altman had no connection with the movie -- being a loose dramatic anthology set in a modern Colorado bus stop/cafe -- whose continuing characters were played by a cast including Rhodes Reason, Marilyn Maxwell, and Richard Anderson]
[above is title as filed for copyright; aka: "Bus Stop"; and aka: "Bus Stop Theme"; The Marilyn Monroe film "Bus Stop" used a Main Title based upon the folk song "Paper of Pins" to emphasize the folksy film characters; It was published as "The Bus Stop Song"; But the film Main Title was not used on TV; For this television series new THEMEs were commisioned from composer Arthur Morton who had been an orchestrator for many other film/TV composers for years; and this was one of the few times he was hired as composer and wrote a Main/End THEMEs... His Main Title for the TV series was held in wide esteem by colleagues when it appeared in the early 1960s] Composer: Arthur Morton (ASCAP/BMI) 1978 Publisher: [not found] 2000 Publisher: EMI Hastings Catalog, Inc. (BMI), c/o EMI Music Publishing, of New York, NY Copyright Date: Oct. 23, 1961; Eu 692 669. Renewal Date: Jan. 9, 1989; RE-418-486. Recordings:
[above is the title as filed for copyright; Closing THEME verified by collector Ray Clark] Composer: Arthur Morton (ASCAP/BMI) 1978 Publisher: [not found in the 1978 ASCAP Index of Performed Compositions] 1989 Publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation (ASCAP) 2000 Publisher: [not found in ASCAP or BMI databases] Copyright Date: Oct. 23, 1961; Eu 692 668. Renewal Date: Jan. 9, 1989; RE-418-464. Recordings: