A Great Blue Eyed Soul LP - The Letter/Neon Rainbow

The Box Tops - The Letter/Neon Rainbow

The Letter/Neon Rainbow is an album by American Blue Eyed Soul band Box Tops, released in 1967. Following The Letter reaching number one on the singles charts, The Letter/Neon Rainbow was quickly assembled for a follow up. The album peaked at number 87 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts in 1968. Most of the backing tracks were performed by session musicians, however the original group played the hit The Letter. The session musicians likely consisted of guitarists Reggie Young and Bobby Womack, bassist Tommy Cogbill, pianist and organist Bobby Emmons, and drummer Gene Chrisman. Although lead singer Alex Chilton (16 at the time) had already written a number of songs, none were included on the Box Tops' debut LP, perhaps due to his relative inexperience with songwriting. Chilton later had a significant songwriting role in the cult power pop band Big Star, and after the dissolution of the group continued to develop his career as a solo artist. The Letter/Neon Rainbow was re-released in 2000 on the Sundazed label with four additional tracks. These included the mono single versions of The Letter and Neon Rainbow, the 1969 single Turn on a Dream and a previously unreleased track Georgia Farm Boy.

01 The Letter
02 She Knows How
03 Trains and Boats and Planes
04 Break My Mind
05 A Whiter Shade of Pale
06 Everything I Am
07 Neon Rainbow
08 People Make the World"
09 I'm Your Puppet
10 Happy Times
11 Gonna Find Somebody
12 I Pray for Rain
13 Turn on a Dream
14 The Letter
15 Neon Rainbow
16 Georgia Farm Boy