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Remembering 'The Letter': The Box Tops' No. 1 Hit 59 Years Ago with 16-Year-Old Alex Chilton
This song topped the Billboard Hot 100.
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1967 No. 1, including sound of real airplane, was at the top of the charts 59 years ago
September 23, 1967, fell just four days after the Box Tops headed to the top spot on the pop chart, going all the way to No. 1 with the airplane-enhanced "The Letter." The Box Tops was a garage band ...
Alex Chilton, 59, who began his four-decade career in pop music as the teenage lead singer of the Box Tops and whose later band Big Star influenced "power pop" bands such as the Replacements and Cheap ...
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