This song topped the Billboard Hot 100.

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 ...

In 1967, a teenage Alex Chilton recorded a song that would hit the top of the charts with his band The Box Tops, and at the time, it made him a young music icon. The hit, entitled "The Letter," ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, blue-eyed soul group The Box Tops were topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their hit song “The Letter.” Released in August 1967 as the lead single from their debut ...