Lost Classics: "Neon Rainbow" by the Box Tops

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Not totally lost, as it made No. 24 in Billboard and is readily available on any Box Tops hits record, but still little discussed and never heard on oldies radio. Terrific record, one of their best -- very delicate compared to their bigger singles.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Never heard it. Sounds good though

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

OK:
http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D43UWM9LUYCV1LT5935IU58LN

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Indeed.

Thanks Again, Rickey

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Sure. I could listen to this kind of stuff all day.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

i have this song but i can't remember what it sounds like. is this the version of the box tops that's all session musicians?

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

I believe so. It's their second single -- my guess is that the session guys were already subbed in.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Indeed.

Thanks Again, Rickey

i'll never understand why some people write sentences in title case. (insert inevitable obnoxious comeback about writing in lowercase.)

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Why make fun at all?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

i was just curious.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

One of my favourite American Studios recordings. Not as great as Brenda Lee's "Do Right Woman", or Dionne Warwick's "A Hard Days Night", or Elvis's "Stranger In My Own Home Town" or "Son of a Preacher Man", but right up there.

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

They play it frequently on my local oldies station (CISL 650). There's a good Petula Clark version on her memphis album.

― everything, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

it's a great song, love the guitar coda at the end, and the drumming. pretty sure this is Moman's American crew of Reggie Young, Gene Chrisman, etc. actually, I find the Box Tops amazingly consistent--other minor classics are "Sweet Cream Ladies," "Turn on a Dream," "Fields of Clover" and "I Met Her in Church." Chilton sounds so ironic and so young, very strange combination for a guy who is indeed so young, like 16 or 17.

Been checking out Joe Tex's later albums, mostly done at American. Very cool indeed, some amazing guitar playing that often imitates roosters and chickens, in the Texian universe.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

this has come up on my iPod shuffle twice in the last week, i forgot how great it is. the arrangement & singing A++.

― gershy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:02 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

and life is love
In a neon rainbow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1TE6Zjz5I&feature=related

― velko, Saturday, 19 September 2009 10:47 (sixteen years ago)

Thought this would be a thread revive for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm5_Y6OvcS0

― Terminator Eggs (Billy Dods), Saturday, 19 September 2009 10:56 (sixteen years ago)

Dimensions is solid all the way through imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGR9I-s1BYg

― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Saturday, 19 September 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga9fd8f0THo

― velko, Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

this whole clip is fantastic, but his acoustic neon rainbow starts at 1:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=105yeWrjoEc

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:29 (fifteen years ago)

Probably my favorite Alex Chilton song and one of my most played songs of all time. I really like the contrast between the acid, dry sound on his pronounciation of the lyrics and the playful, elegant arrangement. He will be sorely missed.

― Moka, Thursday, 18 March 2010 05:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0Wwv-BZwo

<3<3<3<3

― wilter, Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Another lost classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmw_47_Pk2A

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:39 (eleven years ago)

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:18 (eleven years ago)

Definite Neil Diamond thing going on in this song - and in "Soul Deep" - and, of course, Neil Diamond had been recording at American Studios. Or you could say Neil Diamond had been influenced by recording at American Studios but, hmmmmm, I don't think so as much.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

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