Box Tops

The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the late 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James and Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry, pop tunes such as "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Keith Reid and Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn and Chips Moman. Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the pop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops.

References

• "Box Tops Biographies." Box Tops official website. Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.
• "Box Tops Frequently Asked Questions." Box Tops official website. Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.
• Editors of Rolling Stone (1971). The Rolling Stone Record Review. New York: Pocket Books, pp. 425–426. ISBN 671-78531-1. (December 31, 1969 review by Lester Bangs of Box Tops' LPs Super Hits, Dimensions and Non-Stop.)
• "Gary Talley Discography." Gary Talley website. Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.
• Goldfein, Josh. (September 8–14, 1999.) "Box Bottom." Village Voice.
• Gordon, Robert (1995). It Came From Memphis. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-7434-1045-9.
• Smythe, Danny and Evans, John. "Box Tops: The Devilles Story." Box Tops official website. Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.
• Talley, Gary (March 2004). "The Box Tops — Setting the Record Straight: a Firsthand Account." Puremusic.com. Accessed Jun. 16, 2005.
• Whitburn, Joel (1983). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. New York: Billboard Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-8230-7511-7.