First time hearing The Box Tops “The Letter” Reaction | Asia and BJ
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The Box Tops' "The Letter" (from 1967) is one of the shortest #1 songs of all-time (at 1 minute and 58 seconds). Lead singer Alex Chilton was just 16 when this was recorded.
Wow! Was 16, I'm a music historian really appreciate this information. Always dug them. Really liked Neon Rainbow.
@@mrb4749 Soul Deep is my favorite.
He must have been smoking sixty a day to have a voice like this at 16 😯
@@Jamie_Pritchard Maybe so😊 tho I really dug his voice.
It is hard to believe Alex Chilton the lead singer was only 16 when this was recorded. Such a seasoned voice at such a young age. He went on to be the lead singer for the group Big Star known as the greatest group that never was. Compared at times as the American Beatles, but due to unfortunate accidents and horrible marketing and distribution issues they never made it. There is a great documentary on them called Big Star: Nothing can hurt me. There music is very much worth a listen. They had two albums the song September Girls is great to listen to also probably their most well known song In the Street that became the theme to That 70s Show.
Big Star deserved a better fate!!! Should've been huge
Great Song-first a hit for "The Arbors" then "The Box Tops" but my favorite is "Joe Cocker from Mad Dogs & Englishmen"
You must now follow the trail, follow Alex Chilton (the lead singer) to his work with Big Star. "September Gurls", "Thirteen". Those two songs are the most covered by other indie bands.
I saw these guy's perform this live in 67, at the end the drummer do a very long solo with such energy that I thought he was going to die.
Asia & BJ, you’ll love their "Cry Like a Baby"!! Joe Cocker does a cover of The Letter, as only Joe can do!
Yes, Cry Like A Baby, good one. like the line "You left the water running....I was a little one when this came but remember that line and I'm like what? LOL
Joe owns this joint
@@poppiethestable1090 Joe's version felt like a whole different song. Made it his own classic. Love the piano.
Hard to believe that Alex Chilton was only 16 when he sang this!
Steve Winwood was also very young when he got his start
"The Letter" is a song written by Wayne Carson. The song was first recorded by the Box Tops in 1967. It was the group's first and biggest record chart hit, reaching No. 1 in the United States and Canada. Joe Cocker covered this song in 1970 and it became his first top 10 hit.
When this was in the charts in the UK I was doing a 20 mile overnight charity walk ... twice round a 10 mile circuit around the town. Great memories !
Very successful group late 60s. Alex Chilton was a very good singer, dug his gravely voice. Many good songs. Cry like a Baby, Neon Rainbow, I met her in Church. Soul Deep
Much appreciate both of you reacting and shining light on this great forgotten group.
WOW, Asia & BJ, this song is such an iconic classic from the 60's...You guys dove deep into the archives for this one...Well done, great reaction!!!
A short simple song that was a huge hit!
A 60's classic. Yes Joe Cocker has a classic version he recorded too.
Me and Suzies jam!! 24 years apart 1984-2008, she was 15, I was 18, kick ass summer of 84!!! Lost touch and heard she died in carcrash in 88!!!, Then a Myspace hit in 2008, I was in NY she still in FLA!! So flew to FLA and in Aug 08 we were married 3 days later! Now going into 14 years!! I sing her this toon still, with the Letter becoming an Email!!! "Got to get back to my baby again"! "Lonely days are gone, Im going home, my baby she wrote me an Email"!!! Love it!!! TY!!!
The song was a hit and Alex Chilton's voice was so good, you be lucky to find a sixteen year old today with a voice like his....!
Yep, it's short, but when it was a hit, it was played a lot on the radio. That was my first year in graduate school, so it brings back great memories.
Very cool!
This song was released during the Vietnam war and had a lot of meaning. Wives and girlfriends left back at home who missed the embrace of their man and with temptation all around. Many a GI had this feeling of desperately needing to get home any way they could.
Wife here..Oooh Wow...My Father LOVED this song!!.."Fast and in a hurry"...You Go Ms .Asia!
You had three ways to contact people long distance back in the day and the price went up with each one. 1st cheapest was a letter. 2nd was a telegram with 3rd being the telephone. The 1st two you need an address to sent to. and the last a phone where you needed the number or an address and name to get the number. Your best bet was to get a pocket full of coins and call home.
I remember when that song came out. I loved it the first time I heard it on the radio.
The first time I heard "The Letter" was in 1967, but it was by The Mindbenders, and the lead singer was Eric Stewart, who sang lead vocals on "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc. I still have the 7 inch vinyl single.
Aww Asia😂 straight to the point!! Love it!! Daddy memories...smiling with love❤️❤️
So, there I am, with my Army Unit, up in a huge Northern UK training area in the summer of 1967. My section had finished breakfast and all the usual morning chores like weapons cleaning and getting our kit together ready to be trucked out onto the moors for a three-day escape and evasion type exercise. We received our mail and were listening to the radio when this song came on. I opened my letter and it was a 'Dear John' from my girlfriend. Talk about coincidence! Never saw her again!
At 13 years old I sang that song everywhere I went!!!
There was some great music in 1967! "Light My Fire" by The Doors, "Cherish" by The Association, "Ode to Billie Joe" Bobby Gentry, The Beatles were still around, Aretha Franklin, The Monkees, Procol Harum, The Turtles, Herman's Hermits, and many many more.
As soon as I saw the title of this one, I started singing, "Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train...."😁🎶then clicked! edit: I like to follow this one up with The Bus Boys - The Boys Are Back In Town. Very much fun!🔥
I was in Navy Nuclear Power School in Bainbridge, Md. On a Saturday in 1967 we went up to Lancaster, Pa on liberty and saw this band playing this in a local bar. It was just starting to climb the charts at that time.
Joe Cocker rings the HELL out of THE LETTER in his cover of this song. The raw emotion is squeezed out of his desperate plea to reunite with his woman. Just as it should be.
The sound of the plane at the end is neat. So creative, the older music.
There was a parody of this song in the 80's called "Vanna, Pick Me a Letter" about Vanna White on the Wheel of Fortune game show. It's on YT if you look.
"Vanna pick me a letter,
No one does it any better I dream about you (Hey, Vanna, is that an all-over tan or what?) Vanna, I don't understand, why you make 100 grand. Not for me to say, Anyway"
Alex Chilton and the Box Tops were a top blue-eyed soul group from the 60s. Chilton went on to be lead singer in Big Star...a very underrated group.
The Box Tops are an American rock band formed in 1967 & are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They are best known for the hits "The Letter", "Cry Like A Baby" & "Soul Deep". But I love their other songs too such as "Neon Rainbow", "I Met Her In Church", "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March" & others. Joe Cocker had a big hit also with "The Letter" in 1970.
I was in grade school when this came out. So every time bj said it was old or the word old a dagger when thru my heart 😂 🗡️🏹 💔
IIRC, the lead singer was 16 when they recorded this.
Been doing this song with my Bands for 20 years now, short, easy chords/timing and sweet.
When I was 17 I was lead singer in a band led by Wayne Carson, the writer of this song.
Thanks for reacting to this classic! I was in college when this came out and don't remember when I last heard it. Great song!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@AsiaandBJ Yes I did!😊
Give me a ticket for an airplane!!!!! 1967 top of the charts, great music never dies
Asia; your question about whether instruments have improved since this song was recorded - it's the recording process that is improved incredibly. The late 60s and 70s saw innovation leap and bound over itself. The quality and fidelity of recordings reflected that. When you say it was a 60s sound - it means recorded on old equipment in the early to mid 60s.
Asia is the music master ❤️
This song is about a guy who gets a letter 💌from his former love telling him that she wants him back, and the guy wants to fly out and see her immediately. The Nashville songwriter Wayne Carson Thompson wrote the song after his father gave him the line, "Give me a ticket for an 🛫aeroplane."
I’m from Nashville, but I really thought Wayne Carson was from Memphis? or it very well may be that the band itself is from Memphis.🚀✨🚀✨🚀
I love the 1960-70's music, so much of it was happy and makes you want to dance!
Perfect "typical" late 60s pop song...short and to the point.
They were short so they could get more time on the radio (AM). DJ's didn't want long songs because that would make commercial breaks too long in between songs.
I remember waking up to go to school in '67 when this song was playing on my Elgin clock radio, those were the days! lol Thanks for reacting to it.
Alex Chilton was way ahead of his time. Big Star produced some amazing pop that many who followed copied.
Big Star should've been huge! It's a crime their albums weren't promoted when they came out
@@mojorider8455 Yeah. What happened to Chris Bell was sad.
@@galenstone9097 Indeed, so young. I still haven't seen the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me yet. They had the songs and no success---no wonder Paul Westerberg felt a kinship with them
@@mojorider8455 It's really great. I cried a couple of times.
Blue eyed soul vocals from 16 yr old Alex Chilton. KILLER
Timeless song, one of the greats! It's so catchy.
the singer Alex Chilton, formed a band in the early 70s named Big Star, they made a couple of albums that nobody cared about, until probably the early 2000s when people realized that those albums and those songs were some of the best stuff ever recorded... way too late, maybe.
Listen to the song 'Ballad Of El Goodo'
You can still see on tours put box tops and see the cowsells live is great
I was only 8 years old when this came out but it was a great song as well as very popular. The singer was very young!
Joe Cocker's version is with Leon Russell....Check out Leon Russell live playing "Jumpin Jack Flash" with George Harrison, Clapton, Ringo Starr!!!. Dripping with pure soul - This is the kind of music you both LOVE!!! It's from the concert for Bangladesh - first major rock benefit in 1971. The entire video is on the other site that posts videos. Leon at 55:30 minutes in
Classic 60s pop/soul. Check out Cry Like a Baby and Soul Deep. Both awesome Box Tops tunes. You'll dig them.
Thank you so much for your choice! Definitely one of my favorite songs from the 60s with the other being “House of the rising Sun” …the animals: 🚀✨🚀✨🚀
No problem!
Asia: "she said it"!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now you have to react to Joe Cocker’s cover of this song. He puts his Joe Cocker spin on it.
I fell in love with this song at the age of 12
Love that reaction. I have always liked this song since i first heard it.
I love this song. Glad you guys enjoyed it too.
Good on you Asia! That was really funny and fun watching you tell BJ what was in the letter! It was like a "what's wrong with you look". All good though because we know you guys are solid. Genuine reactions are the best and you guys are tops.
" Leaving on a jet plane " written by john denver he does an awsome version with Mama cass elliot but the single was done by peter paul and mary. who had other hits like puff the magic dragon andi f i had a hammer
This song is a great old classic
Great song, great version (this is the original one). Joe Cocker does a great version, think it was hit, a live version. Probably was from Mad Dogs & Englishman album.
Fabulous song. Also Cry like a Baby.
Great song from way back....
You have to check out Joe Cocker's cover, which is soul FIRE, with a brass section and trumpet and sax solos. HI energy. "The Letter (Live At The Fillmore East/1970)"
We loved this song and we loved Joe Cocker's cover! They are both great! Please do Joe Cocker's cover next! It's longer, he added intrumental.
They were from Memphis and I knew the lead Singer, Alex Chilton, for many years !
I like the song ok.It was nice to see your reaction,good to see you like something from so long ago.
This world needs more Asia's!!
We could use some more lads like Asia's bloke too, but asking for that might get me a ban from this platform ...
You'll notice she wrote a letter...No e mail ...No text ... That's the way it was done... Seems so archaic now lol...Love you guys
Such a cool song for the day.
Great song and reaction! I like the version by The Arbors even more!
Today, the song would be titled "The Text" -- "My baby just sent me a t-e-e-e-xt."
This was a big hit !!!
As a 7 year old, I used to sing it as "my baby, she root beer better" . Why, I have no idea!
Joe Cocker did an awesome cover of this.
The shortest No. 1 song in Billboard history.
So good! Too short!
lol BJ got so caught up in the beat, he missed the part of what she wrote in the letter. 🤣 Ever notice those old songs from the 60's weren't very long; always around two and half minutes.
Alex Chilton was just t 16 at the time he recorded this song.
Next Up the Left Banke's "Walk Away Renee" a beautiful haunting song of Young Love!
That was great explanation Asia!!
I believe the singer was only 16 or 17 at the time this was recorded. Amazing.
That is a great song. I used to listen to it in high school...
Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen do a jam up cover of this song.
Gigantic hit in my teen years
Such a short but great song!
Drums haven't progressed much since the 60s but recording equipment/techniques have.
Try out their other great hit, "Soul Deep". Powerful.
I love the 60's music. I hope you love it too!
She wrote "Come get summa this"
PLEASE react to Ralfi Pagan- Didn’t want to have do it. It’s an England cover, but Ralfi delivered Latin soul to this cover. Rarest Latin soul oldies amongst the Latino community.
I know that Song! Didn't know the name of the group!
Alex Chilton is the guy singing. It's a nice little song.
Love it! 🥰
Thank you! 🤗
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss "Please read the letter"
I always felt like they broke up and she wrote saying she couldn't live without him ( like she broke up with him and regrets it )
MUST BE ONE OF SHORTEST SONGS EVER LOL LOVELY THO
There’s a parody of this song by Cheech Marin about Wheel of Fortune
I remember listening to this great song on the school bus. Always thought they were a black group.