Bojoura - The Letter (1974, with lyrics)

The Letter is one from the top hits of Bojoura (Rajna Gerardina Bojoura Cleuver - van Melzen, 15.4.1947, The Hague, NL). Both music and lyrics is written by Wayne Carson Thompson at 1967, originally for The Box Tops. There are 27 cover versions of world wide known singers.
LYRICS:
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm goin' home
My baby wrote me a letter

I don't care how much I gotta spend
Gotta get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm goin' home
My baby, he wrote me a letter

Well, he wrote me a letter
Said he couldn't live without me no more
Listen, mister, can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more?

Wrote me a letter
Said he couldn't live without me no more
Listen, mister, can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more?

Now he wrote me a letter
Said he couldn't live without me no more
Listen, mister, can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more?

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm goin' home
My baby, he wrote me a letter
A letter

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bojoura
• the letter
• wayne thompson
• radio veronica
• the box tops
• oldies
• greatest hits 1974
• lyrics

[Rickk015]

heel slecht, erg slecht super mega slecht, zo slecht hebi k het nog nooit gehoord, heel erg slecht.

slecht, slechter, slechtst

[rudolfo6666]

@Rickk015 ich gratuliere für absolutes Gehör!

[Atticwalk]

Dat dit zo'n fantastische versie is heeft volgens mij mede te maken met de opnametechniek van toen: wat een stereogeluid, wat een ruimte, wat een overdonderende ervaring! Kom er maar eens om, anno 2011, nu alles dichtgeplamuurd wordt qua geluid.

[kingdoener11]

Holy Shit whats this !?

[59scirocco]

hier kan ik me bij aansluiten prachtige en beste versie ooit

[TheHans1959]

blijft een fantastisch nummer; ik krijg er ook nog steeds kippevel van. dit lied heeft niet aan kracht verloren; de mooiste versie van "the letter", ooit door iemand gezongen...

[Hans10932]

Bojoura,wat een pracht vrouw en een fantastische stem.

En die piano aan het eind.......schitterend

[dedeurs]

@mlpim

The Letter was fucked over by a 17 year asshole who thought he was Jim Morrison and Joe Cocker in one. The tops in his box of cheap acid candy backed him in the most uninventive way possible. Thank god for the soundFX.

Bojoura, now she was one awful singer. A bit like Cher: raping songs most of the time, but every now and then gelling perfectly with the material.

Bo's version is vocally quite okay, she girlified and glamourized the song, so what. Band and production are excellent.

[mlpim]

How to fuck a great song.. The original is the best version!

[MrLagaco]

beatifful, Bojoura!!!!!!!!!