Come and Get Your Love peaked at #5 in the Billboard 100. The song has recently gained a new following by being on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack. The band had one other top 40 hit called The Witch Queen of New Orleans. Redbone was a Native American rock band from California.
From Songfacts.
Redbone, their name a nod to their heritage, was a Native American band from Coalinga, California led by the brothers Pat and Candido (“Lolly”) Vasquez. They were managed by Bumps Blackwell, who guided Little Richard and Sam Cooke to success. To avert discrimination, he convinced the brothers to use a different last name, so they became known as Pat and Lolly Vegas. Redbone earned an audience playing clubs on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles at the same time The Doors were on that scene.
A self-titled double album was their debut in 1970, introducing their funky rock rhythms and distinctive percussion, which they called the “King Kong Beat.” In 1972 they scored with “The Witch Queen Of New Orleans,” which reached #21 US and #2 UK, and in 1973 they released their most famous song, “Come And Get Your Love,” on their fifth album, Wovoka. The song was written by Lolly Vegas, who also sang lead on the track.
What’s the matter with your head, yeah
Hail (hail)
What’s the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh
Hail (hail)
Nothin’ the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it
Hail, with it baby
Cause you’re fine
And you’re mine, and you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Hail (hail)
What’s the matter with you feel right
Don’t you feel right baby
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the mainline, all right
I said-a find it, find it
Go on and love it if you like it, yeah
Hail (hail)
It’s your business if you want some, take some
Get it together baby
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Hail (hail)
What’s the matter with you feel right
Don’t you feel right baby
Hail (hail), all right
Get it from the main vine, all right
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. la, la
Come and get your love
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. woohoo
Come and get your love
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. la, la
Come and get your love
La, na, na, na, na, na, da, boom
Come and get your love
La, da boom, boom, boom, ta, daba, boom, boom
Come and get your love
La, la, la, la, la, la
Why the Talking Heads video instead of Redbone?
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I just pulled it up again…and Redbone is there…I did a different browser and it had BTO in there…that is odd…I’ll put another link in there….thanks for telling me…it must have been cached
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Ok…if you don’t mind could you check it out again? I’ve never had that happen before.
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Sorry, just reading this. I just rechecked and now Redbone is there! I know with youtube they sometimes have autoplay and will go on to something they randomly (at least to us it’s random) play another video. Maybe that’s what happened?
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It had to be…I pulled it up and it was the right video but when I pulled up another browser it was BTO…Someone else told me Eagles… That never happened…thanks for telling me!
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you are welcome! Am watching the video right now. Quite a goosebump-inducing beginning!
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Love the Midnight Special. Yes it was….
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Good song. I heard in an ad recently on TV.
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That was a long forgotten fave. (I could see the right video, btw.)
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Thank you! I had some people say Talking Heads and another email me say Eagles…I saw BTO… don’t know how I did that.
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