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A Blast From the Past
Column By: Lyndsey Brown
It’s amazing how music doesn’t get old it grows on a genre or music industry altogether and creates new avenues for future inspiration. It is common that “classic” or billboard hits of the past make a come back in future years. New and current artists have been known for performing covers by their favorite artists or even doing remixes; directors of movies and commercials also re-use songs to influence the feeling you will get from their product/service. Music from the Golden Years such as Redbone’s single “Come Get Your Love” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7eloXr2iak is a song I think we have all heard of at one point; but is it the original or a cover?
What happens is that not everyone follows or even pays attention to music on a knowledgeable level and don’t realize that the latest song out or in that fun commercial is actually a remake or cover. If you ever get the feeling of nostalgia when listening unconsciously, your brain is probably saying that you have heard this song before, but you just can’t figure it out!
That recently happened through a conversation that lead to the discovery of a Fusion/ Rock song from the late 60’s early 70’s: “Come Get Your Love” by Redbone (a Native American band from Los Angeles). Redbone- “Come Get Your Love” was the bands best and last smash single in 1974- popular in both UK and the United States; number five on the Billboard Hot 100, even holding the #1 spot on many charts around the world. Making it a song that many people have heard, and from the success rate- loved! Once the song started playing I knew I had heard it before.
Searching the Internet it became apparent that I definitely heard the song before but it wasn’t from Redbone it was from Rap/Techno/ Pop band Real McCoy from Brazil. Real McCoy covered “Come Get You Love” in the 90’s the single stood at the Top 10 and the album “Another Night” went platinum. What Real McCoy did was change the genre to Techno and style to Urban Pop re-creating it with innovative 90’s appeal. Over all the success was a reflection of the original by Redbone approximately 20 years earlier.
The emotion, the style Redbone music brought out in people is what makes it timeless leading to the Real McCoy cover of a Techno/ Pop rendition of “Come Get Your Love” and many more commercials after that. Below are Youtube links of the Real McCoy- “Come Get Your Love” remake, and two commercials the song was featured in long after its original fame:
Real McCoy - “Come And Get Your Love”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kctlBvsaFuE
Alltel Commercial - Lemonade Stand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlBxHG4vfKw
Pringles (HQ high quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdaKr1uEF0
A couple extremely interesting “tid bits” about Redbone are: Jimmy Hendrix (part Native American) encouraged Lolly Vegas & Pat Vegas (members of Redbone) to form the first all Native American Rock band which led to a record deal with Epic Records in 1969, and it is rumored that Redbone gave Rock band KISS a chance before they were famous by allowing them to open at their shows.
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