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…Box Tops—on the song “The Letter.” “The Letter” was a surprise hit, spending four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967. It later resurfaced as a cover version by Joe Cocker. The Box Tops returned to the top 10 with “Cry like a Baby,”…
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…of the album’s songs, “The Letter,” reached the U.S. top ten. In 1975 Cocker scored another gigantic hit with “You Are So Beautiful,” co-written by Billy Preston, but his career subsequently declined until he made a strong comeback in the 1980s. The song “Up Where We Belong,” recorded by…
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