The Letter by the Box Tops found on the album The Letter. The Letter" is a song written by Wayne Carson Thompson and made famous by The Box Tops and their singer, Alex Chilton, released in 1967 on the album of the same name. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the UK singles chart. The song was popular during the Vietnam War and was also included in the computer game Battlefield Vietnam. Rolling Stone ranked it #363 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. LYRICS: Gimmie a ticket for an aeroplane Ain't got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home My baby has just wrote me a letter I don't get care how much money I gotta spend Got to get back to my baby again Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home My baby has just wrote me a letter Well, she wrote me a letter said she couldn't live without me no mo' Listen Mister, can't you see I got to get back to my baby once mo' Anyway, yeah Give me a ticket for an aeroplane Ain't got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home My baby has just wrote me a letter Well, she wrote me a letter said she couldn't live without me no mo' Listen Mister, can't you see I got to get back to my baby once mo' Anyway, yeah Give me a ticket for an aeroplane Ain't got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home My baby has just wrote me a letter My baby has just wrote me a letter. + Informações

Upbeat 1967. + Informações

Actuación de los Box Tops en el 67. + Informações

The Box Tops - Soul Deep (1969). + Informações

The Box Tops - Cry Like a Baby (1968). + Informações

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IN 1967 THIS SONG ROSE TO #24. The city lights, the pretty lights, They can warm the coldest nights. All the people going places, Smiling with electric faces. What they find the glow erases, And what they loose the glow replaces, and life is love In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow. Moving lines, flashing signs, Blinking faster than the minds. Leading people with suggestions, Leaving no unanswered questions. You can live without direction, And it don't hav' to be perfection, and life is love In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow. But in the daytime everything changes, Nothing remains the same. No one smiles anymore, And no one will open his door Until the night time comes. And then the ... City lights, the pretty lights, They can warm the coldest nights. All the people going places, Smiling with the electric faces. What they find the glow erases, And what they loose the glow replaces, and life is love In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow. + Informações

The Box Tops - Sweet Cream Ladies , Forward March. + Informações

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THE BOX TOPS WERE FORMED IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE IN 1966. " SOUL DEEP" PEAKED AT #18 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 1969. LYRICS: Box Tops Soul Deep Lyrics : Darlin' I don't know much I know I love you so much My life depends on your touch And my love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep It's too big to hide and it can't be denied My love is a river runnin' soul deep I'll work myself to death for ya Just to show I adore ya Nothin' I wouldn't do for ya "Cause my love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep It's too big to hide and it can't be denied My love is a river runnin' soul deep Huh! [ Find more Lyrics on www.mp3lyrics.org/xEc ] All I ever, ever hope to be Depends on your love for me Baby believe me If you should leave me I'd be nothin' but an empty shell I know darn well, I can tell, ah I don't know much I know I love you so much My life depends on your touch And my love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep It's too big to hide and it can't be denied My love is a river runnin' soul deep Huh-huh My love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep Well, my love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep Yeah, my love is a river runnin' soul deep Way down inside me it's-a soul deep Lyrics: Soul Deep, Bo. + Informações

one of the greatest hits of the 60s THE DOOR YOU CLOSED TO ME Your welcome mat just smiles To all your new found friends But I, I got no invitation to your party The shadows hide my tears And it's cold, it's cold out here I'm lost, lost in the darkness of the night Please let me in the door You closed to me Laughter from a guarded room caught steeling Oh, so cold and lonely out here I'm so lonely for you The door you closed to me Stands like a prison gate Won't you search for mercy Please look for a little mercy Down in your heart Please let me in the door You closed to me Please let me in the door You closed to me Won't you please let me in the door Yeah e yeah, you closed to me BY KARAJIC FILIP PSPlease comment. + Informações

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What a voice Alex Chilton had, and he was still only some 18 years when this clip was shot. Please don't forget to check out my other channel: www.youtube.com. + Informações

THIS SONG WENT TO #5 IN 1967 FOR PROCOL HARUM. LYRICS: We skipped a light fandango, Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor. I was feeling kind of seasick, But the crowd called out for more. The room was humming harder, As the ceiling flew away. When we called out for another drink, The waiter brought a tray. And so it was that later, As the miller told his tale, That her face at first just ghostly, Turned a whiter shade of pale. She said there is no reason, And the truth is plain to see That I wandered through my playing cards, And would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast. And although my eyes were open, They might just as well have been closed. And so it was later, As the miller told his tale, That her face at first just ghostly, Turned a whiter shade of pale.. + Informações

TV horror-host John Zacherley's "Disc-O-Teen" 1967 Halloween dance party episode, featuring an appearance by The BOX TOPS. Alex Chilton and the band don't actually perform, but their hit single "The Letter" is played twice during the dance show. The band endures Zach's jibes, including lessons on how to flirt with teenage girls from New Jersey. The Box Tops chat it up with the horror-host while they plug their album, an upcoming European tour and a show at the Cheetah Club in NYC! Happy Halloween!!. + Informações

turn on a dream and soul deep. + Informações

The Box Tops - The Letter (live), 14/07/2001, WTC Plaza NYC. 35 years on, Alex Chilton and the Memphis crew haven't lost a lick.. + Informações

Track taken from the 1968 Lp Non Stop with lead vocal by Alex Chilton.. + Informações

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Another tune from the 2009 Hoboken Spring Arts & Music Festival in Hoboken, New Jersey! This time The Box Tops perform their only flower power hit "Neon Rainbow." Watch this at your own risk as it "may induce flashbacks" .... + Informações

LYRICS: Baby oh baby Tell the man at the ticket stand that you've changed your mind Let me run on out and tell the cab to keep his meter flying Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind Break my mind Break my mind Well I just can't stand to hear the big jet engines whine Break my mind Break my mind oh lord Well if you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind Baby oh baby Well let me take your suitcase off of that scale in time Just tell the man that you suddenly developed a thing about high flying Cause if you say goodbye to me you know you're gonna break my mind Break my mind Break my mind Well I just can't stand to hear the big jet engines whine Break my mind Break my mind oh lord Well if you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind Break my mind Break my mind Well I just can't stand to hear the big jet engines whine Break my mind Break my mind oh lord Well if you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind Well if you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind. + Informações

The Boxtops close their set at the 2006 Moondog Coronation Ball Concert in Cleveland Ohio with their hit, "The Letter".. + Informações

THIS IS THE BOX TOPS FIRST TOP 40 HIT ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS. IT ALSO WAS A #1 HIT IN 1967. LYRICS: Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, 'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. I don't care how much money I gotta spend, Got to get back to my baby again Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, 'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. Well, she wrote me a letter Said she couldn't live without me no mo'. Listen mister can't you see I got to get back To my baby once a-mo'--anyway... Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, 'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. Well, she wrote me a letter Said she couldn't live without me no mo'. Listen mister can't you see I got to get back To my baby once a-mo'--anyway... Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, 'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. Because my baby just a-wrote me a letter.. + Informações

1972 Hi promo 45.. + Informações

The Box Tops were a Memphis rock group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Neon Rainbow," "Soul Deep," "I Met Her in Church," and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James and Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry, pop tunes such as "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Keith Reid, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Chips Moman. Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the powerpop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops. The Box Tops' music combined elements of soul music and light pop. Their records are prime examples of the styles made popular by Moman and Penn at American Sound Studio in Memphis. Many of their lesser known Top 40 hits are considered minor classics; these include "Neon Rainbow"; "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March"; and "I Met Her in Church." As rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in a review of the group's Super Hits album, "A song like 'Soul Deep' is obvious enough, a patented commercial sound, yet within these strictures it communicates with a depth and sincerity of feeling that holds the attention and brings you back often." The Box Tops began as The Devilles, who had started playing in Memphis in 1963. As the band's personnel changed from .... + Informações