What Happened to The Box Tops?

[oldguy]

I saw Bill Cunningham and Gary Talley recently on the 2022 Flower Power Cruise. The show was great we had a huge pool party on the lido deck and all us old hippies in our 70's danced like it was 1968 all over again.

[jvsmith]

Soul Deep is still one of my favorite songs. I can still remember the first time I heard it on Chicago's WLS radio.

[AnthonyMcInerney-vlbf]

I was 14 in second year high school in 1969 when Soul Deep was out and it still remains one of my all time favourite songs.

[dkerr]

A really good band of their time. I always wondered what became of them. Heard "The Letter", and made it to second base on the same night. Ahh the memories.

[RUSure-jmrp]

Joe Cocker’s cover of The Letter is also fantastic.

[faithf]

I heard “I cry like a baby today” in my car. Brought back memories. Such a good 🎵

[jtshark]

just one winge. Chilton was almost broke till Cheap Trick redid one of his songs to be the theme for "that 70's show" Because of the fact he still owned a share of the publishing rights. He was paid $70 every time the show aired. In reruns or first run till he died.

[PaulSmith-pzeq]

I loved Soul Deep and the Box Tops I always enjoyed listening as when Mr Chilton passed U understood that Box Tops sound had also passed. A wonderful band of the 60’s. I’m happy I grew up in the 60’s and wish I could go back there .

[randallanderson]

I saw the Box Tops live in Columbus, Ohio in 1969. It was at a medium-size tavern. Personally, I have a problem with concerts where most and in some cases all of the band members never played on their hits, usually because they are replacements.

[bltvd]

I saw the original Box Tops perform for the first time since the sixties when i was visiting Memphis in 1998.

[chriswallace]

If not for Alex Chilton, college/alternative rock as we know and remember it would simply not exist. He and Big Star are credited by some of the biggest and most influential names in the genre as influences.

[elmolewis]

I was surprised to hear the band's career went into the '70s. 👍

[antrygis]

Alex Chilton. That voice. I loved cry Like a Baby as much as the Letter but they never played it on oldies stations that I heard.. Think I'll que it up now. Chilton with Big Star....another tragedy. Lots of guys with lots of talent never got paid....right. Tragic. Wish they, especially Alex had more happy endings.

[Nazz]

We met them in Beverly Shores Indiana, on Lake Michigan, New Years Eve in 1971.

[chipmusick]

What a joy they were to listen to...non-pretentious, make you feel good music made by people who knew what they were doing.

[MTLGR]

It’s no surprise that Alex Chilton—as a teenager—and his box tops had The Letter as a soulful masterpiece, and took a backroads-style R&B spin to it.

[susanhutchison]

Alex Chilton was only 16 years old when he sang The Letter.

[bryanpalmer]

Can't believe the behind the scenes politics that went on regarding the Business, can't believe Alec Chilton didn't achieve solo success he was a talented singer and should have with Big Star!

[melvinliles]

Always was a fan of Box Tops..Knew John Evans personally...not a great friend mind you...just knew him. He owned a music store in West Memphis, Arkansas. When I was playing music there and in Memphis...me and a friend, John Ellis, used to hang out there and talk to him all the time...bought an old Gibson from him. Really cool dude. Also was in the hospital one time and got to meet Alex Chiltons mom..She wanted to hook me up with her were the days.

[marywatkins]

I knew The Letter and Cry Like A Baby as songs, but didn’t know the name Alex Chilton until years later, The Replacements did a song about him.