 On WLS, The Box Tops' "The Letter" (with Bill Cunningham) and The Hombres' "Let It Out" (with Bill Cunningham's brother B.B.Cunningham Jr.) were respectively Number One and Number Two on the 20th through the 27th of October 1967.The song's spoken intro – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording "Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.