Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records
Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records is a greatest hits compilation album containing songs by artists signed to the Beatles' Apple record label between 1968 and 1973. The first such multi-artist Apple compilation, it was released on 25 October 2010. Among the artists are Badfinger, Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Billy Preston, Jackie Lomax, Ronnie Spector and Hot Chocolate. In most cases, the recordings were produced by one of the Beatles, with George Harrison and Paul McCartney being the most heavily represented on the album.
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Compilation album by Various Artists | |
Released | 25 October 2010 |
Recorded | 1968–71 |
Genre | Rock, pop |
Label | Apple |
Producer | Peter Asher, Tony Cox, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Tony Meehan, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Tony Visconti |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
American Songwriter | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
BBC | (favourable)[3] |
The Independent | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mojo | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork Media | 8.5/10[6] |
PopMatters | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Tom Hull | B–[8] |
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History
The compilation accompanied a massive campaign by Apple Corps Ltd and EMI Music to reissue the albums originally released by the Beatles' record label, and the project and remastered albums are led by the same team of engineers that worked on the Beatles' 2009 remastered albums, John Lennon's 2010 remastered albums, and sixteen other 2010 remastered albums by various other artists (a song from each of these sixteen albums is on Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records).[10]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Those Were the Days" | Gene Raskin | Mary Hopkin | 5:11 |
2. | "Carolina in My Mind" | James Taylor | James Taylor | 3:38 |
3. | "Maybe Tomorrow" | Tom Evans | The Iveys | 2:53 |
4. | "Thingumybob" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Black Dyke Mills Band | 1:56 |
5. | "King of Fuh" | Brute Force | Brute Force | 3:04 |
6. | "Sour Milk Sea" | George Harrison | Jackie Lomax | 3:54 |
7. | "Goodbye" | Lennon, McCartney | Mary Hopkin | 2:25 |
8. | "That's the Way God Planned It" | Preston | Billy Preston | 3:26 |
9. | "New Day" | Lomax | Jackie Lomax | 2:52 |
10. | "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight" | Lennon, McCartney | Trash | 4:05 |
11. | "Give Peace a Chance" | Lennon, McCartney | Hot Chocolate | 4:33 |
12. | "Come and Get It" | McCartney | Badfinger | 2:21 |
13. | "Ain't That Cute" | Harrison, Troy | Doris Troy | 3:49 |
14. | "My Sweet Lord" | Harrison | Billy Preston | 3:22 |
15. | "Try Some, Buy Some" | Harrison | Ronnie Spector | 4:12 |
16. | "Govinda" | trad., arr. Mukunda Das Adhikary | Radha Krishna Temple | 4:46 |
17. | "We're On Our Way" | Hodge | Chris Hodge | 2:59 |
18. | "Saturday Nite Special" | Darrell Higginbotham | The Sundown Playboys | 2:12 |
19. | "God Save Us" | Lennon, Yoko Ono | Bill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band | 3:11 |
20. | "Sweet Music" | Lon & Derrek Van Eaton | Lon & Derrek Van Eaton | 3:37 |
21. | "Day After Day" | Peter Ham | Badfinger | 3:09 |
References
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Various Artists Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- Horowitz, Hal (2 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It, The Best of Apple Records". American Songwriter. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- Diver, Mike (15 October 2010). "Various Artists – Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- Gill, Andy (22 October 2010). "Album: Various Artists: Come And Get It: The Best of Apple Records (EMI)". The Independent. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- Harris, John (November 2010). "Strange Fruit: Various, Original Apple albums, 1969–73". Mojo. p. 116.
- Wolk, Douglas (23 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- Horowitz, Steve (22 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". PopMatters. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- Hull, Tom (December 2010). "Recycled Goods". Static Multimedia. Retrieved 8 July 2020 – via tomhull.com.
- Cavanagh, David (November 2010). "The Apple Remasters". Uncut. p. 112.
- "Come And Get It: The Best of Apple Records – The Beatles". thebeatles.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
External links
- AppleRecords.com – official record label website