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The Box Tops: Perfectly Packaged Pop That Sold A Million

Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

While most of their contemporaries were dabbling in flower power and psychedelia, the Box Tops found success with a pop-oriented soul sound that was distinctly out of step with prevailing trends.

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