The Box Tops
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Big Time Unknowns: The Box Tops Mystery
Profile by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 2 February 1968
THE BEST way to establish an act in the musical big time is to have a No. I record. ...
James Brown, Box Tops, Albert King, Otis Redding et al, Album Reviews
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 May 1968
Loads of R&B albums including Otis' great Dock Of The Bay LP ...
The Box Tops: Dimensions, Nonstop, Super Hits
Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 27 December 1969
THE BOX TOPS? Are you serious? Those yokel hacks grinding out rattly pop for the tyrannical Top 40? Those squeaky-clean goons in paisley scarves and ...
The Box Tops: Perfectly Packaged Pop That Sold A Million
Retrospective by 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 ...
The Box Tops: House Of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, MOJO, August 1997
ADDING YET another layer of cracked lustre to lead singer Alex Chilton's legendary cult-star, The Box Tops popped on-stage, pumping out a pluperfect-for-frat-parties version of ...
Sleeve notes by Colin Escott, unpublished, September 2001
IN THESE trivia-obsessed times, it's probably worth knowing that the first Number One hit recorded in Memphis by a Memphis act was 'The Letter'. It ...
The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
I. Entrance: On the Slopes of Parnassus ...
The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton, Part 2
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
IF THE FIRST ALBUM is soulful and unconscious, the second develops a narrator and player who find new voices, taking on consciousness, memory, and loss. ...
Holly George-Warren's Alex Chilton
Memoir by Binky Philips, Huffington Post, 11 April 2014
When I was running the East Village record store, St Mark's Sounds in the 1980s, Alex Chilton's LP Like Flies On Sherbert [sic] was a ...
see also Alex Chilton
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