*To receive PRIORITY Requests for future videos, head on over to our Patreon or Buy Me a Coffee. Never expected, but always appreciated.❤Links in Description!* This song was a banger! What else should we check out from Redbone?!
This song was huge when it came out in the 70s. I was a kid and definitely have it in my long term memory. I was too young to have watched this Midnight Special so it was a long time until I knew they were of Native American & Mexican ancestry. And it lives on because many younger people now know it from the Guardians of the Galaxy!
Jimmy Hendrix knew the Vegas brothers, Pat & Lolly (lead singer) and told them they should form a band bc they were so good. Pat Lolly said Hendrix suggested the name Redbone! Hendrix is also on record as saying Lolly was one of his favorite guitarists & inspired him. Jimi had Native American ancestry, too, and was proud of it. If you ever get the chance, watch the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World. Incredible background into the way NAs helped shape the Blues & rock with their vocal styles & music. It goes way back, shows the early influences then into the 50s with Link Wray, who influenced Jimmy Page & many others, then Robbie Roberson from the Band & many others who are of NA ancestry. They don't get the credit they deserve.
Redbone is the only funk rock band made up of all Mexican & Native American heritage members. This was reflected in their songs, stage costumes & album art. "Come & Get Your Love" was their biggest hit in 1974. This song was used in the 2014 movie "Guardians Of The Galaxy". But they had some other songs such as "We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee", "The Witch Queen Of New Orleans", "Wovoka", "Maggie" etc.
Born in Coalinga, California, near Fresno, brothers Patrick (bass and vocals) and Candido "Lolly" Vasquez-Vegas (guitar and vocals) moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and played for ten years in clubs under the name of Pat and Lolly Vegas. Pat won Coca-Cola's first singing competition in 1958 at age 17. He also won a recording contract, which he put off to move to Los Angeles with Lolly. They performed at local clubs on Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard while writing and playing on records by Tina Turner, Sonny & Cher, James Brown, Little Richard, and Elvis, among other legendary artists. The word "redbone" is a Cajun term for a mixed-race person, which the band adopted to signify their mixed ancestry. The Vasquez-Vegas brothers were of Yaqui, Shoshone, and Mexican heritage. The band often alluded to Cajun and New Orleans culture in their lyrics and performing style...Written in 1973, the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 13, 1974. It spent 18 weeks in the Top 40, landing 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..
Actually & Factually Lolly & Pat come from Neah Bay Washington they Makah who originally were Hawaiian then mixed with Wakashan on the west coast of Vancouver Island, I am Squamish First Nation & I have close relations that are part Wakashan & Hawaiian that are related to The Vegas brothers but the Hawaiian ancestry is more recent, the brothers flipped coin to travel to either New York or Los Angeles to Persie their musical aspirations,turned out to be L.A.,if you can find it check out "13th hour chant" you hear it partially at the beginning of this performance, there's English lyrics in the song alluding to the " End Times" & has the beautiful lyrics " Give Peace A Holiday & Time To Grow"❤❤❤❤😊
@@setonhillstudiosalso man you like the syncopated drumming on the drums Peter Depoe the drummer is credited for pioneering what he named the "King Kong" style of drumming which features sharply accented polyrhythms i've seen examples of these beats on TH-cam since I'm a drummer !
Before Midnight Special premiered, as soon as the 11 o'clock news went off, the tv went off the air. Midnight Special changed all that. It basically was a rock concert with many performers. It was wonderful.
I was only 10 and not able to stay up for Midnight Special yet, but I remember hearing about it on the bus the next week. Listened to Redbone on the radio. Great to see it as part of the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and having a new generation love it, too!
I was around 6 when this came out but I knew this song and would sing it with the radio whenever it came on in the car or when my Mom was cleaning house on Saturday mornings with the radio on. I also remember hearing it from the lowriders in my neighborhood at the time. I had a little dance I would do with this song. The thing is though I never saw the video until the 2000s because back then, if you didn't watch the Midnight Special (I wasn't allowed to stay up that late) then it was rare that you would ever see that performance again on TV. It was years before MTV and I don't think MTV ever played it either. So, when Guardians of The Galaxy featured this song, I looked it up on TH-cam and fell in love with this band all over again.
Midnight Special was a weekly TV program that brought the best of the best music to late night TV. This was just after 1973 Wounded Knee uprising. Leonard Peltier, a leader of AIM (American Indian Movement) has just been up for parole this past week for the murder of two FBI agents. (It is said that the conviction is totally bogus. That the FBI lied.)This is the first time he has been eligible for parole in over a decade. He is 79 years old and in poor health.
This was always one of my favorite songs as a teenager! I remember watching this episode when it was first on. All us girls had mad crushes on them! Thanks for reacting!
The TV show "Rez Dog's" was about kids on an Oklahoma Indian Reservation and they played this song and many other Native songs and music. It was an incredibly funny series. You might love it! I didn't know that they were Native either, just heard the song way back when..... Thanks for this.
Oh cool! I need to check that out! Thank you for watching! I loved this performance and this tune took me back in time! Such a great hook and catchy song! 🎶
@@setonhillstudios You're going to love it ☺️ I only found your channel about an hour ago when I was looking for Sweet reactions (They rock 🤘). Subscribed right away and now I'm checking out more of your videos before I go to bed 😁 Great channel xxx
Hey man, I probably heard them first from when I would hang out with my older sister and her friends, because my bother was more into Hendrix, Joplin, Cream, etc. They had some really great hits but probably their most famous one was Witch Queen of New Orleans ... and awesome song you need to hear (and react to, hopefully). But they had other great ones too like Maggie, a funky little number that one review said, "It’s heavy and it sounds a little bit like Steppenwolf".
Midnight Special was a variety show, usually focused on music. It was our MTV! The only way we could see our favorite bands was in concerts or shows like this. A couple of other shows that featured bands were American Bandstand, Shindig, Soul Train, The Ed Sullivan Show. I'll never forget watching The Beatle's first US appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show when I was 9. Here's one of the songs they did. Somebody colorized this and it seems the entire video has been lost so I'm glad I found this. th-cam.com/video/xcCb3BFp85w/w-d-xo.html "Please Please Me"
Hi Seton Hill this is an amazing song i also remember it from when i was very young & luving it if you would like to listen to some more Indigenous Music that is more current ya might want to check out Raye Zaragoza "American Dream" & "Postal Song" & "In The River" also another Band called Snotty Nose Rez Kids "Clash Of The Clans" & "Long Hair Don't Care" Thank You for your time & consideration & for a great reaction
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This song was a banger! What else should we check out from Redbone?!
This song was huge when it came out in the 70s. I was a kid and definitely have it in my long term memory. I was too young to have watched this Midnight Special so it was a long time until I knew they were of Native American & Mexican ancestry. And it lives on because many younger people now know it from the Guardians of the Galaxy!
Jimmy Hendrix knew the Vegas brothers, Pat & Lolly (lead singer) and told them they should form a band bc they were so good. Pat Lolly said Hendrix suggested the name Redbone! Hendrix is also on record as saying Lolly was one of his favorite guitarists & inspired him. Jimi had Native American ancestry, too, and was proud of it. If you ever get the chance, watch the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World. Incredible background into the way NAs helped shape the Blues & rock with their vocal styles & music. It goes way back, shows the early influences then into the 50s with Link Wray, who influenced Jimmy Page & many others, then Robbie Roberson from the Band & many others who are of NA ancestry. They don't get the credit they deserve.
I was 8 years old and they have been engraved in my heart !!!
Indigenous people from Los Angeles CA… ❤❤❤❤❤😢 joy to my heart
Thank you for showing respect to indigenous people..
Proud to be a Mexican from Coalinga California. Pat and Lolly spoke no Indian but Mexican. Yes Mexi - Cans, can do it. 😊😊😊
The dance in the beginning was a small protest to events which were affecting the Native Americans at the time.
Oh wow! Thanks so much for the insight! It was such a great tune and I loved the performance. Appreciate you watching!
My elders told me that this is the Freedom Dance.
I watched this live on The Midnight Special! Watched every Friday night at Midnight!
Redbone is the only funk rock band made up of all Mexican & Native American heritage members. This was reflected in their songs, stage costumes & album art. "Come & Get Your Love" was their biggest hit in 1974. This song was used in the 2014 movie "Guardians Of The Galaxy". But they had some other songs such as "We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee", "The Witch Queen Of New Orleans", "Wovoka", "Maggie" etc.
That’s awesome, thanks for the heads up on those tunes!
Born in Coalinga, California, near Fresno, brothers Patrick (bass and vocals) and Candido "Lolly" Vasquez-Vegas (guitar and vocals) moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and played for ten years in clubs under the name of Pat and Lolly Vegas. Pat won Coca-Cola's first singing competition in 1958 at age 17. He also won a recording contract, which he put off to move to Los Angeles with Lolly. They performed at local clubs on Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard while writing and playing on records by Tina Turner, Sonny & Cher, James Brown, Little Richard, and Elvis, among other legendary artists.
The word "redbone" is a Cajun term for a mixed-race person, which the band adopted to signify their mixed ancestry. The Vasquez-Vegas brothers were of Yaqui, Shoshone, and Mexican heritage.
The band often alluded to Cajun and New Orleans culture in their lyrics and performing style...Written in 1973, the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 13, 1974. It spent 18 weeks in the Top 40, landing 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..
Actually & Factually Lolly & Pat come from Neah Bay Washington they Makah who originally were Hawaiian then mixed with Wakashan on the west coast of Vancouver Island, I am Squamish First Nation & I have close relations that are part Wakashan & Hawaiian that are related to The Vegas brothers but the Hawaiian ancestry is more recent, the brothers flipped coin to travel to either New York or Los Angeles to Persie their musical aspirations,turned out to be L.A.,if you can find it check out "13th hour chant" you hear it partially at the beginning of this performance, there's English lyrics in the song alluding to the " End Times" & has the beautiful lyrics " Give Peace A Holiday & Time To Grow"❤❤❤❤😊
Thanks for the information 😊
The Midnight Special gave most of us our first look at who we were listening to. Love this song
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your generosity! You’re awesome!! 🙏🏻
Only Native American band to have a song in the top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100
Oh wow, I had no idea!
@@setonhillstudiosthis tune was also on guardians of galaxy !
@@setonhillstudiosalso man you like the syncopated drumming on the drums Peter Depoe the drummer is credited for pioneering what he named the "King Kong" style of drumming which features sharply accented polyrhythms i've seen examples of these beats on TH-cam since I'm a drummer !
Love this song and this band. Love the 70s wish I could go back to it.❤
Definitely a great era for music! This song was fantastic! Thanks for watching!
Before Midnight Special premiered, as soon as the 11 o'clock news went off, the tv went off the air. Midnight Special changed all that. It basically was a rock concert with many performers. It was wonderful.
That’s so sick!!! I can only imagine how excited everyone was to see who was going to be performing! Epic!!! 🔥
I was only 10 and not able to stay up for Midnight Special yet, but I remember hearing about it on the bus the next week. Listened to Redbone on the radio. Great to see it as part of the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and having a new generation love it, too!
Thank You for saying Indigenous.
And that’s what music has always done… it breaks cultural barriers. That was the 70’s. We didn’t care, we were colour blind.
Love this!
I was in Jr high....it was a big hit!🎉
Let’s gooooo! Thanks for sharing!
I was around 6 when this came out but I knew this song and would sing it with the radio whenever it came on in the car or when my Mom was cleaning house on Saturday mornings with the radio on. I also remember hearing it from the lowriders in my neighborhood at the time. I had a little dance I would do with this song. The thing is though I never saw the video until the 2000s because back then, if you didn't watch the Midnight Special (I wasn't allowed to stay up that late) then it was rare that you would ever see that performance again on TV. It was years before MTV and I don't think MTV ever played it either. So, when Guardians of The Galaxy featured this song, I looked it up on TH-cam and fell in love with this band all over again.
That’s so awesome!
I remember watching this on TV love this song!!!
It’s a great one! Thanks for hanging with us and checking out the video
Midnight Special was a weekly TV program that brought the best of the best music to late night TV.
This was just after 1973 Wounded Knee uprising. Leonard Peltier, a leader of AIM (American Indian Movement) has just been up for parole this past week for the murder of two FBI agents. (It is said that the conviction is totally bogus. That the FBI lied.)This is the first time he has been eligible for parole in over a decade. He is 79 years old and in poor health.
Oh wow! That’s a wild story! This band was so talented and the song is incredible. Such a great hook!
This was always one of my favorite songs as a teenager! I remember watching this episode when it was first on. All us girls had mad crushes on them! Thanks for reacting!
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for hanging with us!
YAY!! I'm so happy you are reacting to this one cuz it's so cool that you can see clearly their heritage and how proud they are of it.
It was awesome!
The TV show "Rez Dog's" was about kids on an Oklahoma Indian Reservation and they played this song and many other Native songs and music. It was an incredibly funny series. You might love it! I didn't know that they were Native either, just heard the song way back when..... Thanks for this.
Oh cool! I need to check that out! Thank you for watching! I loved this performance and this tune took me back in time! Such a great hook and catchy song! 🎶
This song brings me back to my skating rink days
Let’s gooooo! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
NATIVE PRIDE!!!.......and Lolly!!!
Such an incredible band ❤ I love The Witch Queen Of New Orleans by them also 😊😊
I need to check that out! Thanks for the recommendation! Have a great one! 😃
@@setonhillstudios You're going to love it ☺️ I only found your channel about an hour ago when I was looking for Sweet reactions (They rock 🤘). Subscribed right away and now I'm checking out more of your videos before I go to bed 😁 Great channel xxx
@@Kellie_Curtis-Holmes Awesome! So glad you found the channel and hope you enjoy it! Have a great night!
It's always a great party song 😊
For sure! Definitely a fun tune! 🎶
Midnight Special was a great show. I've never seen lip sync on M.S. -- always live music.
Such a cool show! I need to go down the rabbit hole and see what other bands/artists they had performing on there!
Hey man, I probably heard them first from when I would hang out with my older sister and her friends, because my bother was more into Hendrix, Joplin, Cream, etc. They had some really great hits but probably their most famous one was Witch Queen of New Orleans ... and awesome song you need to hear (and react to, hopefully). But they had other great ones too like Maggie, a funky little number that one review said, "It’s heavy and it sounds a little bit like Steppenwolf".
😊
Midnight Special was a variety show, usually focused on music. It was our MTV! The only way we could see our favorite bands was in concerts or shows like this. A couple of other shows that featured bands were American Bandstand, Shindig, Soul Train, The Ed Sullivan Show. I'll never forget watching The Beatle's first US appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show when I was 9. Here's one of the songs they did. Somebody colorized this and it seems the entire video has been lost so I'm glad I found this. th-cam.com/video/xcCb3BFp85w/w-d-xo.html "Please Please Me"
Awesome, thanks for the link!
Thanks!
Thank you for watching! Such an amazing and fun performance!
Hi Seton Hill this is an amazing song i also remember it from when i was very young & luving it if you would like to listen to some more Indigenous Music that is more current ya might want to check out Raye Zaragoza "American Dream" & "Postal Song" & "In The River" also another Band called Snotty Nose Rez Kids "Clash Of The Clans" & "Long Hair Don't Care" Thank You for your time & consideration & for a great reaction
Thanks for the suggestions, glad you enjoyed the video!
Hail was lead singers girlfriend .. she was having a bad hair day and fussing .. He said you look fine .. come and get your love.
🤣😂 Hilarious!
think guardians of the galaxy lol