With its Bo Diddley beat and room for stretching out on guitar, Pete lived to play 'Magic Bus' but John, anchored to a 'dub du-du du-du-dub dub' riff in 'A,' hated it. There wasn't much opportunity for Keith either, but he always looked pleased as punch to be making silly faces and tapping away on his little wooden block while Pete and Roger swapped those preposterous lines about trading the magic bus in for 'two hundred English pounds.' As a stage number, 'Magic Bus' became a crowd favourite if for no other reason than it was quite unlike anything else The Who ever performed. The original recording was produced by Kit Lambert at IBC Studios, London in the summer of 1968. It was released as a single on September 18, 1968 and it reached #26 in the U.K. charts. [It was released earlier in the U.S., on July 27, 1968 and reached #25 in the Billboard charts and #10 in the Cash Box charts. Pete wrote the song in early 1966. On November 20, 1968, Moon was joined onstage during a 20-minute version of 'Magic Bus' by the Small Faces drummer Kenny Jones and the once and future Who drummers performed it together.