About the song
“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.
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. In 2015, “Come and Get Your Love” was used on Netflix’s adult animated sitcom F Is for Family as its theme song.
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