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Cool song! Makes me think of Take A Letter Maria by R.B. Greaves. Definitely another cool tune to check out! ✌️
I don’t know where this ended up on the Charts, but it was a HUGE hit for awhile.
Great song! As an old radio dj, the main thing I remember is the record was just 2:06 – no bathroom break when this song was on.! But even so, they still packed in those great lyrics TWICE. The song is quick intro, verse, chorus, then repeat verse and chorus, then quick music fade (with jet sound effects). And it worked!!!
Takes me back. This was SO popular.
Now listen to the Joe Cocker version.
I use to listen to this song on a 45. This song, "The Letter" – Box Tops & "The Shadows" – Apache, were one of my all time favorites that I would sit & listen to when I was little kid on my phonograph & my record player. I remember when I had to learn how to place the insert tap into the 45's in order to play them on a turn table. lol (My My My – Where did the time Fly). Thanks for reminding me of my childhood, "Blast from the Past". Peace to you both & yours..
"The Shadows" – Apache Original (1960) – played on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TwULx_wDiI
Good song, but Joe Cocker did it best. His version is amazing. It's a must listen.
I have been waiting for this! Awesome!😊
Speaking of non 60s things, try Sweet Cream Ladies by the Box Tops. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think there are enough good songs about prostitutes.
still have the 45
Good, Cocker better!
I have this song on a 45. Have always dug this song.
CRIMINALLY SHORT! Love it though, have it in my playlist. Glad you finally got to this one
An interesting cover is the version by The Arbors – usually a "fraternity sweater songs" type of group, but they went spacey psychedelic on this one.
If you’ve heard Alex Chilton’s Big Star and solo songs, his style is very different from the Box Tops. The story I heard is the record producer demonstrated to Chilton exactly how The Letter was to be sung, and Chilton imitated the producer’s vocal.
Gotta hit the Joe Cocker version. That was also a big hit and super great. Very different interpretation like most of his cover versions, but no less amazing because of it.
Big hit during the Vietnam War
Chilton is channeling his inner Ray Charles. It’s truly an “S” tier song. Hugely influential.
I've always preferred the Joe Cocker cover. My garage band covered this when it first came out, and my Farfisa Compact Deluxe sounded just fine. It's a nice little song that to my ears (and to our audiences) sounds better without the horns and strings. I was blown away by the piano part Leon Russell came up with on the Joe Cocker cover.
It's kind of funny that various web sources report that the original intent for the keyboard part was "something that sounds like 'I'm a Believer". The Farfisa Compact Deluxe was created to make that sound — going all the way back to the Dave Clark Five.
Your rating of A+ for this seems generous to me — I'm not sure I could go above a B. I guess you can blame Joe Cocker for that. 🙂
Awaiting you reaction to the new Rolling Stone's single – Angry , from their upcoming album Hackney Diamonds
Recorded at Chips Moman's / Dan Penn's American Recording Studios in Memphis. So many great tunes were recorded there…Elvis, Dusty Springfield, Lulu etc.
Thats, uhh…
Thats a lot of crotch.
Im not saying its a bad thing, just in the moment, its a bit(actually 2 bits) too much. Maybe its because I ate right before I started watching this. I came in 'full'.
Anywho, Im sure it was a great reaction that I missed typing this comment.
Did you guys do this at 4:20? Looks like it!
Good tune and urgent vocal it just needed to be twice as long. So many '60s songs are great but, for me, just too short.
Ýou definitely need to hear Joe Cockers version of this song- a blues classic
Wait til y'all get up to Big Star!
You also have to put it in context that she might be wanted him to come back from Vietnam.
Andy looks a bit like a young Alex Chilton.
You have to react to the live Joe Cocker version of this song. Talk about soul !!
I was a kid when this came out, and I loved it, and I still do. It was a unique blues song for it's time. So cool to hear it again!
This song was mentioned in Almost Famous. Legendary rock journalist Lester Bangs (Phillip Semour Hoffman) is talking music with William, and says, "Do you know "The Letter" by The Box Tops is a minute and fifty-eight seconds long. Means nothing. But it takes them less than two minutes to accomplish what it takes Jethro Tull hours to not accomplish."
Indeed.
Ya might like The Grass Roots' song title " Midnight Confession '.
Has that same feel to it. Excellent also
Go on guys, do the Joe Cocker version from Mad Dogs and Englishmen, featuring Leon Russell. You will like it too I'm sure. Cheers ✌
Joe Cocker & Leon Russell (Mad Dogs & Englishmen) best version ever
The Wheel of Fortune version of The Letter is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vr2an65Pc&t=21s