Greatest Songs (Come And Get Your Love)

Redbone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CURB
• ASIN: B000000DBT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,223 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, August 20, 2003

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Sir Charles Panther "Life is hard. It's hard... (Alexandria, Virginny, USandA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Songs (Come And Get Your Love) (Audio CD)

I'll admit right up front that I bought this CD for one song, and for one song only, "Come and Get Your Love." This is a deeply treasured classic from my central Kansas sixth-grade days at the local lunch counter, playing nickel pinball and listening to the jukebox. It was resurrected unexpectedly, delightfully, maybe even respectfully in that ridiculous, overblown, post-apocalyptic Costner vehicle, The Postman, and for that alone I'll give the man some credit. I love this song, and always will. All I wanted was a copy of the original on CD. I could care less about the rest of the tracks on the CD, and yeah, I was willing to lay out the [money amount], just for this one song alone.

And I got burned for it.

Buyer beware: this is not the original, nor are any of the other tracks on this rip-off of a recording. This is not a Redbone album; all of the tracks are weak, lame covers.

First, note the amazing cheezy tray card and titling, that "Redbone" in a hokey pseudo-German Gothic font, the ultra-low rent colors, the stock background, the general lack of any kind of artistic imagination or label expenditure anywhere on the packaging.

Second, note the label: Curb Records out of Nashville, TN. Me, I've got the original Redbone Wovoka on vinyl, Epic #32462, and this isn't even close. Hell, I've never heard of Curb Records, and I own a good 500 vinyl albums, 200+ cassettes, and over 1200 CDs.

Third, note the exceedingly crafty and thoroughly underhanded title, "Redbone: Greatest Songs." That's a major albeit subtle clue. If it said "Greatest Hits," then it would be the tracks from the original artist. Not so here, and the first sorry notes on the opening track confirm it.

Your fourth clue to the real nature of these recordings is a tiny little blurb in the liner notes stating, "All tracks courtesy of Dominion Entertainment, Inc." Who are they, and what do they have to do with Redbone? Nothing, apparently.

The only thing this sorry album has to do with Redbone is its title. Do not waste your money on this sad CD. Me, I'm giving it to my children as something shiny to play with; it will be more fun and of more use to them than it will to me, as I've got no desire to play it again. I've listened to this highway truckstop bargain bin, low-budge, generic knockoff recording once all the way through, and I've got no interest in suffering through it again.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Redbone's Greatest Songs - Come and Get Your Love, May 14, 2000

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Richard L. Herman (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Greatest Songs (Come And Get Your Love) (Audio CD)

If you're looking for Redbone's original recordings of Come and Get Your Love and Witch Queen of New Orleans, you will be very disappointed with these apparent remakes. The title is tricky - Redbone's Greatest Songs, but they are NOT the hit versions.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DONT BUY!!!!!, March 18, 2004

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Paula M. Haber (LONG ISLAND NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Songs (Come And Get Your Love) (Audio CD)

I BOUGHT THIS CD FOR "COME AND GET YOUR LOVE" ITS A RIP OFF!!! IT SOUNDS LIKE A LAS VEGAS LOUNGE ACT!!! I JUST CONTACTED THE SELLER. LEMME FIND OUT I CANT GET MY MONEY BACK FOR THIS CRAP....