‘Come and Get Your Love’ is a song by American rock band Redbone. The song was originally released as a promo track under the name ‘Hail’ and was later featured on their fifth album, Wovoka (1973), under its current name. The song was released as the album's first single the following year. Written and produced by band members Pat and Lolly Vegas, it is one of the band's most successful singles. It made them the first Native American band to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number five. The song later appeared on many "greatest hits" albums released by the band, as well as on numerous compilation albums of the 1970s. A cutout style-animated music video was released in 2020.
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.
The single cut of ‘Come and Get Your Love’ is significantly shorter, with the album version featuring an introductory slow part, plus a longer repeated coda. Most radio stations rarely play the latter. The song features a prominent part for electric sitar. A shorter DJ re-service edit of the single version is mainly distinguished by a lead vocal. During sportscaster George Michael's tenure as a disc jockey on New York's WABC radio from September 1974 to November 1979, he would routinely begin his Friday night show with this song, which he dubbed the "weekend national anthem".
The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 13, 1974. It spent 18 weeks in the Top 40 and landed as the fourth-most popular song on the Hot 100 for 1974. The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 22, 1974, which indicates that it had shipped over a million copies in North America. The song is Redbone's highest charting single and one of two Top 40 hits by the band. (An earlier recording, ‘The Witch Queen of New Orleans,’ peaked at number 21 in 1972.)
In 2014, ‘Come and Get Your Love’ experienced a resurgence in popularity when it was featured in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the songs on a mixtape made for the protagonist Peter Quill. It was also included on the film's soundtrack album, which reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. It was later heard and reused in the MCU films Avengers: Endgame and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, from 2019 and 2023 respectively.
Label – Epic
Songwriter – Lolly Vegas
Producers – Lolly Vegas, Pat Vegas
SONG LYRICS
[Intro]Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
[Verse 1]
Hail (Hail), 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
[Chorus]
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
[Verse 2]
Hail (Hail), what's the matter with you feel right
Don't you feel right, baby
Hail, oh yeah, get it from the main vine, 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
[Chorus]
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
[Bridge]
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
[Chorus]
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
[Verse 3]
Hail (Hail), what's the matter with you feel right
Don't you feel right, baby?
Hail, oh, yeah, get it from the main vine, alright?
[Outro]
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Come and get your love
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, woo
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, 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, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Come and get your love
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, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Come and get your love
La, da-boom, boom, boom, ta, daba, boom, boom
Come and get your love
La, da-boom, boom, boom, ta, daba, boom, boom
Come and get your love
La, da-boom, boom, boom, ta, daba, boom, 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, la, la, la, la
Come and get your love
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, woo