Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records

Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records
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
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
American Songwriter[2]
BBC(favourable)[3]
The Independent[4]
Mojo[5]
Pitchfork Media8.5/10[6]
PopMatters[7]
Uncut[8]

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.

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).[9]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Those Were the Days"  Gene RaskinMary Hopkin 5:11
2. "Carolina in My Mind"  James TaylorJames Taylor 3:38
3. "Maybe Tomorrow"  Tom EvansThe Iveys 2:53
4. "Thingumybob"  John Lennon, Paul McCartneyThe Black Dyke Mills Band 1:56
5. "King of Fuh"  Brute ForceBrute Force 3:04
6. "Sour Milk Sea"  George HarrisonJackie Lomax 3:54
7. "Goodbye"  Lennon, McCartneyMary Hopkin 2:25
8. "That's the Way God Planned It"  PrestonBilly Preston 3:26
9. "New Day"  LomaxJackie Lomax 2:52
10. "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"  Lennon, McCartneyTrash 4:05
11. "Give Peace a Chance"  LennonHot Chocolate 4:33
12. "Come and Get It"  McCartneyBadfinger 2:21
13. "Ain't That Cute"  Harrison, TroyDoris Troy 3:49
14. "My Sweet Lord"  HarrisonBilly Preston 3:22
15. "Try Some, Buy Some"  HarrisonRonnie Spector 4:12
16. "Govinda"  trad., arr. Mukunda Das AdhikaryRadha Krishna Temple 4:46
17. "We're On Our Way"  HodgeChris Hodge 2:59
18. "Saturday Nite Special"  Darrell HigginbothamThe Sundown Playboys 2:12
19. "God Save Us"  Lennon, Yoko OnoBill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band 3:11
20. "Sweet Music"  Lon & Derrek Van EatonLon & Derrek Van Eaton 3:37
21. "Day After Day"  Peter HamBadfinger 3:09

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Various Artists Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Horowitz, Hal (2 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It, The Best of Apple Records". American Songwriter. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Diver, Mike (15 October 2010). "Various Artists – Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Gill, Andy (22 October 2010). "Album: Various Artists: Come And Get It: The Best of Apple Records (EMI)". The Independent. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Harris, John (November 2010). "Strange Fruit: Various, Original Apple albums, 1969–73". Mojo. p. 116.
  6. ↑ Wolk, Douglas (23 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Horowitz, Steve (22 November 2010). "Various Artists: Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records". PopMatters. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Cavanagh, David (November 2010). "The Apple Remasters". Uncut. p. 112.
  9. ↑ "Come And Get It: The Best of Apple Records – The Beatles". thebeatles.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.

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