The Box Tops - The Letter
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- The Letter by the Box Tops found on the album The Letter.
The Letter" is a song written by Wayne Carson Thompson and made famous by The Box Tops and their singer, Alex Chilton, released in 1967 on the album of the same name. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the UK singles chart. The song was popular during the Vietnam War and was also included in the computer game Battlefield Vietnam. Rolling Stone ranked it #363 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
LYRICS:
Gimmie a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home
My baby has just wrote me a letter
I don't get care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home
My baby has just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter said she couldn't live without me no mo'
Listen Mister, can't you see I got to get back to my baby once mo'
Anyway, yeah
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home
My baby has just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter said she couldn't live without me no mo'
Listen Mister, can't you see I got to get back to my baby once mo'
Anyway, yeah
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a goin' home
My baby has just wrote me a letter
My baby has just wrote me a letter
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Still a great song in 2024🎉
I can't believe this singer was only like 16 when this was recorded. Quite a smokey voice for such a youngster. Great song.
Three packs a day will do that.
Damn
This was such a great dance song...yeah I am 77.
@@PatrickPierceBateman 😄 Yeah I'm sure you would have to smoke that many to get the Bob Dylan effect going on. The fact the singer was only 16 wouldn't leave him much time to develop a smoky voice by well.. smoking a lot lol. I think he just hit puberty earlier than some and naturally had the voice. He likely just imitated what he was hearing from older blues and R&B singers of the time.
The great Alex Chilton!
Who’s here because their parents blessed them with the gift of knowing what good music is!!!
2023 and I’m 37!! My parents had my back on the music!!! Thank Goodness lol!!
36, fully agree. People today can't even sing worth a damn.
got this song from battlefield Vietnam loading screen >:) but I'm 28 with a Pink Floyd tattoo so my dad did a good job.
My folks had this type of music growing up now My 13 year old daughter blasted this on her boom box
Nope, i'm here cause this song came when i was a child, but i think great music can be appreciated by all gens.
2024🎉❤
thank you baby, I love it
The only thing wrong about this song is that it's too short. Love it
Learned this song from minions 😂
Fun fact its the shortest song to ever reach number one on the billboards.
Short and sweet.....gets no better. .....the man was in a hurry.
❤️🙌🏾
1967年、全米ヒット・パレードを揺るがす🌲曲、年間ランキングTOP3に入っていたと思います。
何と言っても、此のシャガレ声✨。
(≧∇≦)bイイ✊デスね。
大好きです。❤❤💝❤️🩹🥰🎼🎵🎵🎤📀💿
時代の背景もありますね。
I remember Sunday mornings I would wake up to my dad playing this along with other awesome oldies. I could always tell he was gonna be in a good mood if I woke up to his loud music :) RIP dad
Nice ☺ .
Around 1970 or so (I was 12 then), I bought a bunch of single records dirt cheap at a sort of yard sale from someone down the street from me. This was one of them, and I loved it, and played it a lot. One day my mom accidentally sat on the records that were lying on my bed. I won't put "accidentally" in quotes there, because I love her. But music has a strange way of affecting people. Some feel threatened by it when it's foreign to them. I want my kids to know that when they hear music pumping from the basement or from wherever I am, that's a good thing, that everything is good and right. Rock in Perpetuity (i.e.RIP).
+Bill Vanyo love your comment, thanks for sharing :) music has its way of bringing those memories to light for us every once in a while when we are stuck in the darkness
I'm sorry about your dad, I remember Supertramp on the weekends, Thin Lizzy and a bunch of other good stuff. Glad I grew up with that and not the garbage kids listen to now :-)
my grandad had cancer and he survived
:D update: my granddad passed away
Fondest memories of this song are when my dad was a janitor at a Catholic school and on Friday nights my sister and I would go to work with him and help him by getting the trash from the classrooms. He’d play oldies as he mopped the cafeteria floor and this song would always come on the radio on K-earth 101. My dad is no longer here but this song will always remind me of him. Rest in paradise dad ❤😇
May God bless his soul.❤❤❤
What year was that in? Amazing how much we appreciate their sacrifices once we become adults, and they are gone. ❤
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just a wrote me a letter
I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once-a more
Anyway, yeah
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once-a more
Anyway, yeah
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter, my baby just-a wrote me a letter
We know the lyrics
@@anthonymaylett5823 Well - it's for the less informed, aye!? Lol. Not everyone knows the lyrics, not everyone has good hearing and not everyone knows they can look up the lyrics on the Interweb-net-thingy. Anyway, when you read the words you can hear them in your "mind's ear", so you just want to write them down when the song's that good, you just want to share the moment. I get it.
I particularly like the trombone short sharp bits and raspy longer one squeezed out and growing in volume on the words “fast train” which adds gravitas, urgency and all that good stuff. It's what I look forward to in this piece. It's so... ...period, so gritty, so 60's and 70's, one can almost smell the lead in the car fume pollution, smell the sidewalk hot-dogs and feel the warm, orange glow of shallow sun rays glancing through an urban, American landscape.
@@anthonymaylett5823 I don't
Good job!! Great song too. I sing it poorly, lol!! But Love it😊
Thank you for the lyrics. So nice to sing a long with
This song is brillaint! It has pop, soul, funk, folk, blues and a powerful message!
❤❤❤❤
I am a 63 year old Black female musician of many decades. True musicians never discriminate over music no matter how crazy times were back then. I am an active musician that had to learn by the "staff" and "scale". This song popped in my head a few minutes about, and off to the keyboard I'm going, and will sing it to my grandsons. Good Music!
Are you a supremacist?
God Bless you Granny G
@@mellonhead9568 Fun fact: the japanese frank speaks in the beginning of the filthy frank weeabo video, translates roughly to "There are two jews in the closet... and they're both dead."
Beautiful person, well said!! Music Is music this song will never die out!! These oldies are stuck thank goodness!!!
Reminds me of when my sister got married when the song came out i was 19 im now 74 ❤
Great Song!!
I can see now when people say the 60's music were the best
Don't forget the 70's. The 2 best music decades !
@@Slpenda3 The Mid to Late 50's had some good stuff aswell, so thats 3 of the best music decades.
@@themidnightracer9937: Right ! ;)
@@themidnightracer9937 you forget some 40s music is also pretty goid too
@@jewbearidk Yeah that is true.
It's really great how music can take you back to a moment in time with most excellent re-call. I watched them perform at Chemung County Fair in N.Y. in 1968 with my girl. I was a High School Senior. Now I'm just a senior. :)
But the Rock n' roll in your soul is still there!!
This song reminds me of boys becoming men as they went off to the Vietnam War. Some to come home, some never to be seen again.
My big brother had this 45 when i was really little ♡ he graduated from high school when I was a year old 😂
Every time I hear this song, I think about the Vietnam POW who used to play it on the jukebox at the bar I used to go to to. He had scars crossing his eyes and a bunch of other scars on his face. He'd put his arms around my friend and I and we'd all sing this song. Bob was a good guy.
USSR? )
A toast for bob
Yes, a toast to Bob! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers to your friend Bob! Rock on my friend.
He still is, wherever he is. Good guys live forever.
This is real music.
Hell yeah! They don't make music like that now
Nope. That's Mozart.
Nah, cave sounds is real music
@@legacyofvrak my farts are real music
Meh, it's OK. Too low key. I can name a dozen rock songs I enjoy more that this. Just off the top of my head.
What a song, what a voice coming from a 16 yr old. They could never remake this song!
I forgot how bad ass this tune was !
Ichiban Moto so true
Ayyeee! 🤘
Because it’s sooo demanding. 🤣
Gimme a ticket for an Aeroplane....gimme gimme gimme 🤣
And. Me and I'm ,,70 x
"bad ass"? I've never correlated a donkey being bad and musical impulsivity as one. I'm so 1980's.
Prince of Zimbabwe
Same
A man of culture as well
Born to feel
Born to pee-pee poo-poo
@Some shitty meme stealing account Born to Feel
I've always been a proud Boomer. Even though I'm 30-40 years younger than 'em.
oh my god... I lost 30 years of my life without knowing this amazing song!
I am in the same situation like you-Oh my god!! A amazing song!
Where have you been.Ha
I came across this song watching minions with my kids 😂😂
This song totally rocks
My uncle used to sing it to me as a kid
i love the vibe of this song
Same here 😊✌️
I heard a bit of this song the other day... glad I was able to find it
After a long day of work this song guides me home to my daughter.
Had the privilege of seeing The Box Tops a few weeks ago and they were amazing
My morning radio show played a bit of this and I had to look it up. Good music is timeless and this certainly is.
What a voice!
Mathieu Fortier not lie the vussies today...
and he was just 16 when this was recorded
Mathieu Fortier vdhtg
R.I.P. Wayne Carson, who wrote this great tune that still sounds great almost 50 years later.
Love this song 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 💃🏻 💃🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣❤️❤️
This song takes me back to a great place and time when life was carefree and fun. Loved the 60’s music still do!
Still some of the best music in the world,I thank God I grew up listening to killer jams like this.60s 70s 80s some 90s is the best music ever made.When I hit 100 I'll still b listening to it!!!
i feel this song has such a serious element to it
Brilliant song never gets old ♥️
adore this- his voice is amazing.
I LOVE the trumpets in this song
Can't believe this dude was belting out a #1 hit with such soulful power at age 16. I think I was pulling wheelies on my stingray bike at that age
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Stingrays rule... still got mine,,, and this 45...2019.✌🏼.
Mom bought the 45 when it came out. She played it several times per day. Never gets old. This is some bad ass music right here. Greatness.
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This is Music ! A Legend !!
A timeless song by The Box Tops.
I've known this song my entire 48 years on Earth, but only tonight after getting a call from my husband after 9 days unconscious in.an ICU with Coronavirus, do I now feel literally exploding joy from this song!
That is awesome! )i just found the song that was haunting me, long story, no time haha) your story behind it takes the prize , please take good care and best wishes for you two!
@@Inddesign thank you!!
I lost six people due to the pandemic in one effing month. All from Baltimore County MD. Covid (4) , liver disease from drinking alcohol and suicide. That doesn’t include the unborn baby that Laura Boyd died with or the dog that was shot by a neighbor who assumed the dog has Covid. 😞
@@gmailaccount8433 I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm glad the song is bringing you happiness and it is a real blessing that you made it through Covid! Many blessings to you!
This song will never get old. A masterpiece!
love this song...randomly popped into my head this morning and had to find it on youtube.
This is the perfect song. There's absolutely no fat on it. It does just what it has to do and then it's over.
BEST VERSION EVER !!!
One of the best early rock songs EVER
Battlefield vietnam
iCore 465 xD same here mate
Manos apostolou such an old game
Good times. I miss flying a F-4, dropping napalm and blasting this.
ravingfurryforlife haha yeahh me too
+ravingfurryforlife I get that u fought for ur country... but missing killing people is just fucked up.
We were 16 years old in 1967 when my classmate friend Melvin and I would sing The Letter as we were walking to the school play ground to play baseball...
..Every time I hear THE LETTER .... I think of Melvin and our carefree school days
RIP Melvin , you are missed🙂
After I was born, maybe two or three hours later, I turned this music on, put my suit on and left the country.
Those were the days. I'm glad my dad had a pick up truck at the hospital for me to hop in and just leave.
Haven't seen them since then. But they know I'm on a mission.
This song was one of my favorites when i was 9 years old and im still listening to it in 2020. Nice Oldie but Goodie! ❤️
I gotta get back to my Thierry
Love you baby girl so much thanks for your never ending love 💗
My grandma used to sing this song for me when I was little
Your grandma was awesome.
Hannibal Landa she still is 💜
Alyssa Gomez you got the idea, don't ya?
Hannibal Landa I don't. Did you mean to hurt her saying her grandma was dead?
***** dude... No.
TIMELESS!!!
timeless man
Always loved singing along to this one, the lyrics just flow.😆✌🏼
Easy to sing along with
✌️ same here 😊
I’m waiting for your letter baby! 💛💙
For us just pure nostalgic, 1000 heard.
My father ❤❤❤
Nostalgia, heard my father drumming it sooo many times❤❤❤
One of the songs we can always remember the words..great music! We had the best music in the late 60's, 70's and a bit in the 80's!
Timeless.
RIP Alex Chilton (The Boxtops) (28 December 1950 - March 17 2010)
He was lead singer on this record at only 16 years old
Bull-fucking-shit
Liam Ryan are you disagreeing?
It's a hell of a voice for a 16 year old. I can barely believe it. Brilliant.
@@aussieman4791 its true dude...check his second band ' bigstar'...his vocals are completely different...he basically invented alternative rock in that band
He was so young when he died.
This guy has the best voice ever 😍
Best extro of all time in any song ever!
I'm so thankful that I have a good taste in music. This track is a great example and many others from the same generation/era as well. This genre will live on forever, way longer than any music produced in the last decade. I'm 20 and not a hipster.
Hopefully those 8 years helped with that hipster stage
I have a playlist of songs I could listen to while I end this run in time. This is one of them!😊
Love this song...brings back good memories ~!!
Awesome song 👍
Thanks for singing it R.I.P Grandma and Grandad
Perfect song.
My dad used to sing this song when I was a kid and it drove me freaking nuts. I had totally forgotten about it until I stumbled upon it today.
well enjoy the ride! 😂
Everyone still rocking to this in 2020?!!! I LOVE this tune!!!
I'm an elder millennial. My dad was born in 56 so I grew up with him rocking 70s music. Missed the 60s stuff but it's great and I have a 2 year old daughter born in 2019. She loves the old mo town stuff...
I'm a Detroit boy through and through born and raised so you best believe I'm pumping that mo town soul on Sunday .
golden age of music...i could listen these songs all day long!
Same here 😊✌️
This will always be one of my favorite songs.
Great song! Timeless. Rocked with this in San Diego on a .45 in 1968 when I was in 8th grade
Good classic rock and roll. Grew up hearing this on the record player.
the most refreshing song on earth
They play this song on American bandstand in 1967 but I'm 35 years old and I love oldies music right now in my life
I’m here because I’ve loved this song since I was a little girl in the late ‘60s - they don’t make music like this anymore!
Got that right ✌️
Watching MINIONS today can't get this song out of my head!!🤣
Watching it now that's where I came from
Me too
Oh my God.. That's what brought me here... Fucking minions
Great song!
I doubt if any rap songs will pop in my head as strongly as this love song did to me this morning. lol I'm a 60's musician and still active at my keyboard. Some rap is ok but the quality of LOVE that these guys wrote about is priceless. We don't even write letters anymore, we text.
I finally fell in love for the first time. Now I can't go home because of the Corona virus. I look forward to the moment when I can hug my love!!!
I walk my pup with this song on. And I'm 21, come on, classics are beautiful!
41,years young and listening in 2019 with my 17 year old .........priceless.
Pandemic 2020. I love this song. I’m 40 years old. 😊🎶
60's music was very eclectic, but musically and lyrically...probably one of the best decades for pop/rock music. People actually wrote "handwritten" letters back then...imagine that:)
Chilton was 16 when he recorded this song, what a fuckin voice.
the memories of my bittersweet and poignant unrequited love at 16 brought me here, this song was haunting me and i did not know the title! life can be so frail, yet resilient. take care everyone!
I had all of these 45 records, my Uncle changed songs on a juke box, gave me so many 45's, still have them~
I love this music and my parents never showed it to me! I skimmed across this song myself and i love it. Im 16!
I was 12 and I loved this song
I particularly like the short, sharp, squelchy trombone bits and raspy longer one squeezed out with the first letter of each main word, etc. It's the business! 😝
Saw these guys in Pensacola Fla @ Seville Square in the mid 80's and the singer and drummer were still the original's, i got to talk to them and smoked a joint with the drummer,his nickname was buzzard.
+kenny baird if thats the truth that is an incredibly cool story
It really happened John.
i was singing this once i got up from bed. i felt the urge to listen to this. I miss my baby r.i.p
loney days i want them gone, baby i want to come home now
Still listening in December 2023 to the great Box tops singing this absolute classic 👏❤️ this song crossed over from pop to soul to classic !
My dad was physically and verbally abusive, but some of my fondest memories are bouncing around dancing to this song with him as a kid
I miss those days
Sorry you had a hard time. No parent should abuse children in any way 😊
The bluesy tune and so down to earth lyrics had a huge impact on teenage boys living in England at the time of its release.
How? They weren't in the Jungles of Nam, or in Korea.
...and men! I got married, aged 25 :-)
GREAT SONG my favourite
Its 2022 I'm 29 years old still listening to this song
Imagine you still listening this in 40 years.
@Duffy8368 I hope to still be around
@@anissakafka7473 and still listening to this.
Wish the end of this song would never end