Friday Music

If you're old like me sometimes you have to indulge yourself of those memorable things from the years you came of age.

For instance golden age of travel by airliner when you weren't squeezed into a pressurized aluminum tube like sardines in a can....

1971 American Airlines

And while the Mad Men of nowadays would unlikely proffer this as your ad campaign; there was some alluring sex appeal to cheap air travel....

1973 Delta Airlines

And there was the music.

From my personal Top Ten list of tunes this song was composed by Wayne Carson and recorded by the Box Tops in 1967.  The Letter was the group's first and biggest hit.  It rose to number one in the United States and Canada and made the Top Ten in any number of other countries. 

It holds a place at number 372 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....