Box Tops - The Letter

Very rare and very strange clip from 1967. It's obvious these guys would rather be somewhere else...like meeting up with their drummer :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• oldies
• 60's
• Alex Chilton

[rwells47]

Thanks for sharing this video Chris! Yes, the guys don't look too energetic! Is that the drummer selling tickets to Alex? Ron

[bze2nlz4]

@rwells47 Haha, yes that could be! I'd say this was more of a brief appearance, rather than a performance!

[cevrimdisi]

Epic description is epic

[McHunter111]

yeah they are deff fooling around because they are pissed they arent really performing this song

[ReedBender1]

Yeah you're right & its a right hand- probably the red guitarist tooling about ! Plus the singer looks over & looks like he's trying to suppress cracking up.

If only your harp playing was as good as your eyesight Mal !

[MalThorgan]

Check out 1 min 18 secs - a phantom hand dangles on the top keyboard - Thing from the Adams Family ? WTF ??

I'm still pissing myself laughing ......plus I claim bragging rights for spotting this so give me a thumbs up if you notice it now & you can stop laughing long enough to hit the right key !

Mal Thorgan legendary Forensic Film Clip Analyst.

[zalovitch]

@misterdillybar Really?? I can't believe that. So you mean all those violins, brass section and drums aren't been played by little dwarves hidden into the organ box? Nothing real, everything fake. You man are a bad guy, destroying the illusion of innocent people just like me.

Hope this time you get the irony....

[get2ubed]

i cant believe alex was only 16 when he recorded this song.how cool is that!

[bashert4ever]

I tried to comment on this before,, but there was a problem...you may get 2 now :) I agree,, they were very "energetic" , like it though Chris