Redbone was a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s.… Read Full Bio ↴Redbone was a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the song, Come and Get Your Love.
Formed in 1968 in Los Angeles, California, by the brothers Patrick Vasquez (bass and vocals) and Lolly Vasquez (guitar and vocals), the name Redbone itself is a joking reference to a Cajun term for a mixed-race person, the band's members being of mixed blood ancestry. The band referenced Cajun and New Orleans culture many times in their lyrics and performing style. Pat and Lolly had previously performed and recorded under the stage surname Vegas, in part to downplay the Latin American association of their birth surname, Vasquez.
Redbone played primarily rock music with R&B, Cajun, Jazz, tribal, and Latin roots. Their first commercial success came with the single Maggie from their second album, Potlatch, in 1970, and two other hit singles followed - The Witch Queen of New Orleans (1971, #21 on the Billboard Hot 100) and "Come and Get Your Love" (1974, #5 on the Billboard Hot 100). "Come and Get Your Love", written by Lolly Vasquez stayed in the Billboard chart for 24 weeks, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. on 22 April 1974.
Lolly Vasquez was one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of the distinctive Leslie rotating speaker effect in his electric guitar amplification set-up. Vegas played improvised, jazz-influenced guitar. Drummer Peter DePoe (born 1943, Neah Bay, Washington) is credited with pioneering the "King Kong" style of drumming, which features sharply accented polyrhythms involving the bass and snare drums and is similar to funk styles of drumming. The band referred to DePoe's "King Kong Beat" in their lyrics to the song "Prehistoric Rhythm" on their debut album.
In 1973 Redbone released the politically oriented We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee, recalling the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by the Seventh Cavalry in 1890. The song ends with the subtly altered sentence "We were all wounded 'by' Wounded Knee". The song reached the #1 chart position in Europe but did not chart in the U.S. where it was initially withheld from release and then banned by several radio stations. Original drummer Peter DePoe left to be replaced by Butch Rillera. Following this the band achieved much of their commercial success. Tony Bellamy (guitar, piano and vocals) was later forced to retire due to illness.
The band's current remaining membership is led by Pat Vegas alone (Lolly left in 1995, Tony Bellamy sometime after that), Raven Hernandez (guitar, vocals and songwriter) joined Redbone in 1996 to replace Lolly Vegas after he suffered a stroke that left him unable to tour with the band. Although Redbone has had some limited activity in recent years, their songwriting and touring output is slight compared with that of the early 1970s. A proposed reunion tour in 2003 did not occur.
Evidence suggests the existence of an "imposter band" illegally touring the United States and posing as Redbone under the name (or alias) "Denny Freeman". Freeman, who Pat Vegas confirmed to be unaffiliated with Redbone in an interview with the Montana Standard, most recently defrauded the county-fair board of the Butte Silver-Bow County Fair in Butte, Montana under pretenses of being a co-founding member of Redbone, yet he was never a band member.
Prior to forming Redbone, Pat and Lolly Vegas released an album in the mid 1960s entitled Pat & Lolly Vegas At The Haunted House (Mercury MG 21059/SR 61059). Of the twelve songs on the album, six are originals by the Vegas brothers. Pat and Lolly Vegas also released several 7" singles from 1961 to the mid 1960s. One of them is titled "Robot Walk" / "Don't You Remember" (Apogee Records A-101).
The first self titled album by Redbone was released as a double album in North America and as a single LP in Europe. Their third album, Message from A Drum, was released in Europe with another title (The Witch Queen of New Orleans) and a different cover than the one released in the U.S. and Canada.
One of the 1970s drummers, George Spannos, released his own hit album Passion in the Dark in 1983 under the name Danny Spanos, having a Top 40 hit single with Hot Cherie.
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Deutsche Version:
Bandgeschichte
Die Initiatoren von Redbone waren die BrĆ¼der Lolly Vegas (bĆ¼rgerlich Candido Albelando Vasquez, * 2. Oktober 1939 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; ā 4. MƤrz 2010 ebenda ā Vocals, Gitarre) und Pat Vegas (bĆ¼rgerlich Patrick Morales Vasquez, * 17. MƤrz 1941 (oder 1946) in Coalinga, Kalifornien ā Vocals, Bass). Schon seit den frĆ¼hen 1960er Jahren machten die beiden BrĆ¼der unter verschiedenen Band- und Projektnamen wie The Avantis oder The Sharks sowie ab 1964 unter ihrem KĆ¼nstlernamen Vegas zusammen Plattenaufnahmen. So zum Beispiel 1966 die LP Pat & Lolly Vegas at the Haunted House, die neben selbstverfassten Titeln Coverversionen damals aktueller Hits von Wilson Pickett, James Brown oder den Rolling Stones enthƤlt. Als Studiomusiker wirkten sie bei Aufnahmen von Elvis Presley und Sonny & Cher mit. Die beiden BrĆ¼der waren ebenfalls erfolgreiche Songschreiber. Der Titel Niki Hoeky (auch Niki Hokey geschrieben) wurde von mehreren bekannten Interpreten wie Bobbie Gentry, Aretha Franklin (Lady Soul, 1968) oder The Ventures (Swamp Rock, 1969) aufgenommen und war 1967 in der Version von P.J. Proby ein Top-40-Hit[5] in den US-Billboard-Charts.
Ende 1968 stellten sie mit Tony Bellamy (bĆ¼rgerlich Robert Anthony Bellamy, * 12. September 1941 (oder 1940) in Orange City, Kalifornien ā Gitarre, Vocals) und Pete "Last Walking Bear" DePoe (* 1943 im Makah-Reservat in Neah Bay, Washington ā Schlagzeug) schlieĆlich eine Band zusammen. In ironischer Anspielung auf ihre ethnische Herkunft wƤhlten sie den Bandnamen Redbone. Im frankophonen Kulturkreis der Cajuns (Cajun Country, Louisiana) ist āRehbon" ein abfƤlliger Ausdruck fĆ¼r einen Menschen gemischt-ethnischer Herkunft. āRedbone" ist davon die US-amerikanisierte Form. Schlagzeuger DePoe, der das Trommeln bei Zeremonien und Powwows gelernt hatte, gehƶrt als einziger "echter" Indianer bei Redbone zum Indianervolk der Cheyenne[6][7]. Die anderen Bandmitglieder haben teils latein-amerikanische Wurzeln und verwandtschaftliche Verbindung verschiedenen Grades zu den Yaqui und Shoshone[8] und bezeichnen sich als Stadtindianer.
Beim CBS-Sublabel Epic Records unterzeichneten sie 1969 einen Schallplattenvertrag und ihr selbstbetiteltes DebĆ¼t-Doppelalbum erschien 1970 mit ausnahmslos selbstgeschriebenen Songs, darunter ihre eigene Version von Niki Hoeky sowie der auch als Single ausgekoppelte Titel Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band. Auf dem Albumcover ist ein mit Federn beschmĆ¼ckter roter Knochen abgebildet. Am 26. August 1970 traten sie ā in Europa noch weitgehend unbekannt ā beim letzten und grƶĆten Isle of Wight Festival auf.
Die Musik von Redbone ist eine unikate Mischung aus Rock, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Funk, Jazz, Cajun-Musik, lateinamerikanischen Rhythmen und Elementen indianischer Stammesfolklore. Ihre Ć¼berwiegend selbstgeschriebenen Lieder sind oft sprachlich wie thematisch von der Cajun-Kultur geprƤgt, erzƤhlen von Stammesriten, nordamerikanischer Indianergeschichte und sozialer Ungerechtigkeit. Ihr Bandimage betonten sie konsequent mit authentischer Indianerbekleidung und entsprechender BĆ¼hnenausstattung.
Bereits Ende 1970 erschien die zweite LP Potlatch. Der Song Alcatraz behandelt die Besetzung der Insel Alcatraz durch indianische Aktivisten (Indians of All Tribes) seit dem 20. November 1969, die u.a. auch von der Rockband Creedence Clearwater Revival unterstĆ¼tzt wurde und am 11. Juni 1971 durch RƤumung seitens der US-Regierung endete. Mit der ausgekoppelten Single Maggie erzielte die Gruppe Ende 1970/Anfang 1971 einen ersten Achtungserfolg in den amerikanischen Single-Hitparaden.[4] Anfang 1972 erreichte Maggie als Wiederverƶffentlichung Platz 45 auch in der deutschen Hitliste.[2]
Aus der dritten LP Message from a Drum (1971) stammt der Titel The Witch Queen of New Orleans, in dem die Voodoo-Priesterin Marie Laveau besungen wird. Der Song entwickelte sich Ende 1971 zum weltweiten Hitparadenerfolg und erreichte Platz 2 im Vereinigten Kƶnigreich[3], Platz 13 in Deutschland[2], und in den Billboard Hot 100 Rang 21[4].
Aus familiƤren GrĆ¼nden spielte Pete DePoe auf dem vierten Album Already Here (1972) nur auf den fĆ¼nf Titeln von Seite 1 Schlagzeug.[9] Auf Seite 2 sprang fĆ¼r ihn Arturo Perez ein, der fĆ¼r kurze Zeit auch bei Liveauftritten mitspielte.[10] Die Singleauskopplung Fais Do war in den Niederlanden ein kleiner Hitparadenerfolg.
Der Non-Albumtrack We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee (1973) thematisiert das Massaker bei Wounded Knee (South Dakota) im Jahre 1890 durch das 7. US-Kavallerieregiment an Angehƶrigen des Minneconjou-Indianerstammes (Lakota/Sioux). Die Single stand 5 Wochen lang auf Platz 1 in der Hitparade der Niederlanden[11] und in Deutschland kam er bis auf Rang 21[2]. In den USA wurde das Lied nicht verƶffentlicht und von vielen Radiosendern boykottiert.
WƤhrend den Aufnahmen zur fĆ¼nften Studio-LP Wovoka 1973 verlieĆ Schlagzeuger DePoe die Band endgĆ¼ltig und wurde durch Butch Rillera (* 8. November 1945) ersetzt. Der aus diesem Album ausgekoppelte, in lateinamerikanischem Tanzrhythmus eingespielte und etwas gefƤlligere Song Come and Get Your Love war 1974 mit Platz 5 die kommerziell erfolgreichste Single von Redbone in den USA und verkaufte sich Ć¼ber eine Million Mal.[4]
Rillera hatte die Gruppe nach dem 1974er Album Beaded Dreams Through Turquise Eyes schon wieder verlassen und der Platz am Schlagzeug wurde fortan ƶfter neu besetzt. Hinzu kam Keyboarder und Perkussionist Aloisio Aguiar. Nach der 1977er LP Cycles wurde es jedoch zunehmend stiller um Redbone. 1995 verlieĆ Lolly Vegas aus gesundheitlichen GrĆ¼nden die Gruppe. Wenig spƤter trennten sich auch die verbliebenen Ur-Mitglieder Pat Vegas und Tony Bellamy. Pat Vegas tourte spƤter gelegentlich mit einer neu zusammengestellten Gruppe unter dem Namen Redbone, zu der ab 2003 Mark Guerrero gehƶrte.
Alben
Redbone - 1970
Potlatch - 1970
Message from a Drum - 1971 (auch als The Witch Queen of New Orleans verƶffentlicht, 1972)
Already Here - 1972
Wovoka - 1973
Beaded Dreams Through Turquise Eyes - 1974
Come and Get Your Redbone - 1975
The Best of Redbone - 1976
Cycles - 1977
Redbone Live - 1994 (Aufnahmen 1977)
Great Songs (Come and Get Your Love) - 1995
Golden Classics - 1996
To the Bone - 1998
Redbone and Wet Willie: Take Two - 2002
The Essential Redbone - 2003
One World - 2005
Singles
Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band - 1970
Maggie - 1970, 1971 und 1972
Light as a Feather - 1971
The Witch Queen of New Orleans - 1971
Message from a Drum - 1972
Fais Do - 1972
When You Got Trouble - 1972
Niji Trance - 1972
Poison Ivy - 1973
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee - 1973
Wovoka - 1973
Come and Get Your Love - 1974
One More Time - 1974
Suzi Girl - 1975
Formed in 1968 in Los Angeles, California, by the brothers Patrick Vasquez (bass and vocals) and Lolly Vasquez (guitar and vocals), the name Redbone itself is a joking reference to a Cajun term for a mixed-race person, the band's members being of mixed blood ancestry. The band referenced Cajun and New Orleans culture many times in their lyrics and performing style. Pat and Lolly had previously performed and recorded under the stage surname Vegas, in part to downplay the Latin American association of their birth surname, Vasquez.
Redbone played primarily rock music with R&B, Cajun, Jazz, tribal, and Latin roots. Their first commercial success came with the single Maggie from their second album, Potlatch, in 1970, and two other hit singles followed - The Witch Queen of New Orleans (1971, #21 on the Billboard Hot 100) and "Come and Get Your Love" (1974, #5 on the Billboard Hot 100). "Come and Get Your Love", written by Lolly Vasquez stayed in the Billboard chart for 24 weeks, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. on 22 April 1974.
Lolly Vasquez was one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of the distinctive Leslie rotating speaker effect in his electric guitar amplification set-up. Vegas played improvised, jazz-influenced guitar. Drummer Peter DePoe (born 1943, Neah Bay, Washington) is credited with pioneering the "King Kong" style of drumming, which features sharply accented polyrhythms involving the bass and snare drums and is similar to funk styles of drumming. The band referred to DePoe's "King Kong Beat" in their lyrics to the song "Prehistoric Rhythm" on their debut album.
In 1973 Redbone released the politically oriented We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee, recalling the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by the Seventh Cavalry in 1890. The song ends with the subtly altered sentence "We were all wounded 'by' Wounded Knee". The song reached the #1 chart position in Europe but did not chart in the U.S. where it was initially withheld from release and then banned by several radio stations. Original drummer Peter DePoe left to be replaced by Butch Rillera. Following this the band achieved much of their commercial success. Tony Bellamy (guitar, piano and vocals) was later forced to retire due to illness.
The band's current remaining membership is led by Pat Vegas alone (Lolly left in 1995, Tony Bellamy sometime after that), Raven Hernandez (guitar, vocals and songwriter) joined Redbone in 1996 to replace Lolly Vegas after he suffered a stroke that left him unable to tour with the band. Although Redbone has had some limited activity in recent years, their songwriting and touring output is slight compared with that of the early 1970s. A proposed reunion tour in 2003 did not occur.
Evidence suggests the existence of an "imposter band" illegally touring the United States and posing as Redbone under the name (or alias) "Denny Freeman". Freeman, who Pat Vegas confirmed to be unaffiliated with Redbone in an interview with the Montana Standard, most recently defrauded the county-fair board of the Butte Silver-Bow County Fair in Butte, Montana under pretenses of being a co-founding member of Redbone, yet he was never a band member.
Prior to forming Redbone, Pat and Lolly Vegas released an album in the mid 1960s entitled Pat & Lolly Vegas At The Haunted House (Mercury MG 21059/SR 61059). Of the twelve songs on the album, six are originals by the Vegas brothers. Pat and Lolly Vegas also released several 7" singles from 1961 to the mid 1960s. One of them is titled "Robot Walk" / "Don't You Remember" (Apogee Records A-101).
The first self titled album by Redbone was released as a double album in North America and as a single LP in Europe. Their third album, Message from A Drum, was released in Europe with another title (The Witch Queen of New Orleans) and a different cover than the one released in the U.S. and Canada.
One of the 1970s drummers, George Spannos, released his own hit album Passion in the Dark in 1983 under the name Danny Spanos, having a Top 40 hit single with Hot Cherie.
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Deutsche Version:
Bandgeschichte
Die Initiatoren von Redbone waren die BrĆ¼der Lolly Vegas (bĆ¼rgerlich Candido Albelando Vasquez, * 2. Oktober 1939 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; ā 4. MƤrz 2010 ebenda ā Vocals, Gitarre) und Pat Vegas (bĆ¼rgerlich Patrick Morales Vasquez, * 17. MƤrz 1941 (oder 1946) in Coalinga, Kalifornien ā Vocals, Bass). Schon seit den frĆ¼hen 1960er Jahren machten die beiden BrĆ¼der unter verschiedenen Band- und Projektnamen wie The Avantis oder The Sharks sowie ab 1964 unter ihrem KĆ¼nstlernamen Vegas zusammen Plattenaufnahmen. So zum Beispiel 1966 die LP Pat & Lolly Vegas at the Haunted House, die neben selbstverfassten Titeln Coverversionen damals aktueller Hits von Wilson Pickett, James Brown oder den Rolling Stones enthƤlt. Als Studiomusiker wirkten sie bei Aufnahmen von Elvis Presley und Sonny & Cher mit. Die beiden BrĆ¼der waren ebenfalls erfolgreiche Songschreiber. Der Titel Niki Hoeky (auch Niki Hokey geschrieben) wurde von mehreren bekannten Interpreten wie Bobbie Gentry, Aretha Franklin (Lady Soul, 1968) oder The Ventures (Swamp Rock, 1969) aufgenommen und war 1967 in der Version von P.J. Proby ein Top-40-Hit[5] in den US-Billboard-Charts.
Ende 1968 stellten sie mit Tony Bellamy (bĆ¼rgerlich Robert Anthony Bellamy, * 12. September 1941 (oder 1940) in Orange City, Kalifornien ā Gitarre, Vocals) und Pete "Last Walking Bear" DePoe (* 1943 im Makah-Reservat in Neah Bay, Washington ā Schlagzeug) schlieĆlich eine Band zusammen. In ironischer Anspielung auf ihre ethnische Herkunft wƤhlten sie den Bandnamen Redbone. Im frankophonen Kulturkreis der Cajuns (Cajun Country, Louisiana) ist āRehbon" ein abfƤlliger Ausdruck fĆ¼r einen Menschen gemischt-ethnischer Herkunft. āRedbone" ist davon die US-amerikanisierte Form. Schlagzeuger DePoe, der das Trommeln bei Zeremonien und Powwows gelernt hatte, gehƶrt als einziger "echter" Indianer bei Redbone zum Indianervolk der Cheyenne[6][7]. Die anderen Bandmitglieder haben teils latein-amerikanische Wurzeln und verwandtschaftliche Verbindung verschiedenen Grades zu den Yaqui und Shoshone[8] und bezeichnen sich als Stadtindianer.
Beim CBS-Sublabel Epic Records unterzeichneten sie 1969 einen Schallplattenvertrag und ihr selbstbetiteltes DebĆ¼t-Doppelalbum erschien 1970 mit ausnahmslos selbstgeschriebenen Songs, darunter ihre eigene Version von Niki Hoeky sowie der auch als Single ausgekoppelte Titel Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band. Auf dem Albumcover ist ein mit Federn beschmĆ¼ckter roter Knochen abgebildet. Am 26. August 1970 traten sie ā in Europa noch weitgehend unbekannt ā beim letzten und grƶĆten Isle of Wight Festival auf.
Die Musik von Redbone ist eine unikate Mischung aus Rock, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Funk, Jazz, Cajun-Musik, lateinamerikanischen Rhythmen und Elementen indianischer Stammesfolklore. Ihre Ć¼berwiegend selbstgeschriebenen Lieder sind oft sprachlich wie thematisch von der Cajun-Kultur geprƤgt, erzƤhlen von Stammesriten, nordamerikanischer Indianergeschichte und sozialer Ungerechtigkeit. Ihr Bandimage betonten sie konsequent mit authentischer Indianerbekleidung und entsprechender BĆ¼hnenausstattung.
Bereits Ende 1970 erschien die zweite LP Potlatch. Der Song Alcatraz behandelt die Besetzung der Insel Alcatraz durch indianische Aktivisten (Indians of All Tribes) seit dem 20. November 1969, die u.a. auch von der Rockband Creedence Clearwater Revival unterstĆ¼tzt wurde und am 11. Juni 1971 durch RƤumung seitens der US-Regierung endete. Mit der ausgekoppelten Single Maggie erzielte die Gruppe Ende 1970/Anfang 1971 einen ersten Achtungserfolg in den amerikanischen Single-Hitparaden.[4] Anfang 1972 erreichte Maggie als Wiederverƶffentlichung Platz 45 auch in der deutschen Hitliste.[2]
Aus der dritten LP Message from a Drum (1971) stammt der Titel The Witch Queen of New Orleans, in dem die Voodoo-Priesterin Marie Laveau besungen wird. Der Song entwickelte sich Ende 1971 zum weltweiten Hitparadenerfolg und erreichte Platz 2 im Vereinigten Kƶnigreich[3], Platz 13 in Deutschland[2], und in den Billboard Hot 100 Rang 21[4].
Aus familiƤren GrĆ¼nden spielte Pete DePoe auf dem vierten Album Already Here (1972) nur auf den fĆ¼nf Titeln von Seite 1 Schlagzeug.[9] Auf Seite 2 sprang fĆ¼r ihn Arturo Perez ein, der fĆ¼r kurze Zeit auch bei Liveauftritten mitspielte.[10] Die Singleauskopplung Fais Do war in den Niederlanden ein kleiner Hitparadenerfolg.
Der Non-Albumtrack We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee (1973) thematisiert das Massaker bei Wounded Knee (South Dakota) im Jahre 1890 durch das 7. US-Kavallerieregiment an Angehƶrigen des Minneconjou-Indianerstammes (Lakota/Sioux). Die Single stand 5 Wochen lang auf Platz 1 in der Hitparade der Niederlanden[11] und in Deutschland kam er bis auf Rang 21[2]. In den USA wurde das Lied nicht verƶffentlicht und von vielen Radiosendern boykottiert.
WƤhrend den Aufnahmen zur fĆ¼nften Studio-LP Wovoka 1973 verlieĆ Schlagzeuger DePoe die Band endgĆ¼ltig und wurde durch Butch Rillera (* 8. November 1945) ersetzt. Der aus diesem Album ausgekoppelte, in lateinamerikanischem Tanzrhythmus eingespielte und etwas gefƤlligere Song Come and Get Your Love war 1974 mit Platz 5 die kommerziell erfolgreichste Single von Redbone in den USA und verkaufte sich Ć¼ber eine Million Mal.[4]
Rillera hatte die Gruppe nach dem 1974er Album Beaded Dreams Through Turquise Eyes schon wieder verlassen und der Platz am Schlagzeug wurde fortan ƶfter neu besetzt. Hinzu kam Keyboarder und Perkussionist Aloisio Aguiar. Nach der 1977er LP Cycles wurde es jedoch zunehmend stiller um Redbone. 1995 verlieĆ Lolly Vegas aus gesundheitlichen GrĆ¼nden die Gruppe. Wenig spƤter trennten sich auch die verbliebenen Ur-Mitglieder Pat Vegas und Tony Bellamy. Pat Vegas tourte spƤter gelegentlich mit einer neu zusammengestellten Gruppe unter dem Namen Redbone, zu der ab 2003 Mark Guerrero gehƶrte.
Alben
Redbone - 1970
Potlatch - 1970
Message from a Drum - 1971 (auch als The Witch Queen of New Orleans verƶffentlicht, 1972)
Already Here - 1972
Wovoka - 1973
Beaded Dreams Through Turquise Eyes - 1974
Come and Get Your Redbone - 1975
The Best of Redbone - 1976
Cycles - 1977
Redbone Live - 1994 (Aufnahmen 1977)
Great Songs (Come and Get Your Love) - 1995
Golden Classics - 1996
To the Bone - 1998
Redbone and Wet Willie: Take Two - 2002
The Essential Redbone - 2003
One World - 2005
Singles
Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band - 1970
Maggie - 1970, 1971 und 1972
Light as a Feather - 1971
The Witch Queen of New Orleans - 1971
Message from a Drum - 1972
Fais Do - 1972
When You Got Trouble - 1972
Niji Trance - 1972
Poison Ivy - 1973
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee - 1973
Wovoka - 1973
Come and Get Your Love - 1974
One More Time - 1974
Suzi Girl - 1975
Come And Get Your Love
Redbone Lyrics
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Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your head? Yeah
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your mind
And your sign? And 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 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
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, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
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
What's the matter with your head? Yeah
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your mind
And your sign? And a, oh, oh, oh
Hail (hail)
Nothin' the matter with your head
Baby, find it, come on and find it
'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 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
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, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
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
The song "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone is an upbeat and joyful love song that encourages the listener to let go of their inhibitions and surrender to the call of love. The repetition of "Hail (hail)" adds a celebratory feel to the song and signals that this is a moment to rejoice. The lyric "What's the matter with your head? What's the matter with your mind and your sign?" seems to be addressing someone who might be holding back or feeling doubtful about love. The singer is urging them to find their confidence and embrace their feelings.
The chorus of the song is simple and catchy, inviting the listener to "come and get your love." This phrase is repeated throughout the song, urging the object of the singer's affections to take action and pursue their attraction. The repetition of the phrase underscores the urgency of the moment and drives home the message that love is waiting for those who are bold enough to pursue it.
Line by Line Meaning
Hail (hail)
Greeting
What's the matter with your head? Yeah
What's bothering you mentally?
Hail (hail)
Greeting
What's the matter with your mind
What's bothering you mentally?
And your sign? And a, oh, oh, oh
What's your zodiac sign? (implying astrological qualities)
Hail (hail)
Greeting
Nothin' the matter with your head
There's nothing wrong with you mentally
Baby, find it, come on and find it
Find what makes you happy
Hail, with it, baby
Greeting
'Cause you're fine
You're cool
And you're mine, and you look so divine
I like you and you look really good
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Hail (hail)
Greeting
What's the matter with you? Feel right
What's wrong with you? Do you feel okay?
Don't you feel right baby?
Aren't you happy?
Hail, oh yeah
Greeting
Get it from the main vine, all right
Get it from the source
I said a find it, find it
Find what you're looking for
Go on and love it if you like it, yeah
Love it if you enjoy it
It's your business if you want some, take some
It's up to you if you want some, take some
Get it together baby
Get your act together
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love, now
Come and receive the love I'm offering right away
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love, now
Come and receive the love I'm offering right away
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Hail (hail)
Greeting
What's the matter with you? Feel right
What's wrong with you? Do you feel okay?
Don't you feel right baby?
Aren't you happy?
Hail, oh yeah
Greeting
Get it from the main vine, all right
Get it from the source
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Come and get your love
Come and receive the love I'm offering
Lyrics Ā© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Lolly Vegas
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@trevmac8362
1973 listening to this as a kid
2019 listening to this as an old man š
@arturserp6038
If you listed this as a kid now you have like 52 years , according that you started listening this song when you where 8
@yusuf6997
2019 listening to this as a 14 year old
@oDM0o
Music is timeless.
@matthewthomason7276
@@oDM0o no. It's just up to us to keep it alive. Us with taste that is
@cmkilcullen8176
Amen brotherman..
@chrisdionela
I love how they brought this back in the ending of GOTG Volume 3. A perfect ending song indeed.
@Ray45347
Wait what....
@SonicFrozen_Fan2005_Official
@@Ray45347 yep. It's official.
@itsnoneofyourbusiness8650
Yup!!