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Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records

Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records
A Granny Smith apple with headphones, surrounded by the text of the album's title and record label.
Compilation album by
various artists
Released25 October 2010
Recorded1968–71
Genre
Length71:35
LabelApple
Producer
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]
Tom HullB−[8]
Uncut[9]

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 and currently only 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 or written by one of the Beatles, with George Harrison and Paul McCartney being the most heavily represented on the album.

The compilation accompanied a massive campaign by Apple Corps and EMI 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

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No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Those Were the Days"Gene RaskinMary Hopkin5:11
2."Carolina in My Mind"James TaylorJames Taylor3:38
3."Maybe Tomorrow"Tom EvansThe Iveys2:53
4."Thingumybob"Lennon–McCartneyThe Black Dyke Mills Band1:56
5."King of Fuh"Brute ForceBrute Force3:04
6."Sour Milk Sea"George HarrisonJackie Lomax3:54
7."Goodbye"Lennon–McCartneyMary Hopkin2:25
8."That's the Way God Planned It"PrestonBilly Preston3:26
9."New Day"LomaxJackie Lomax2:52
10."Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"Lennon–McCartneyTrash4:05
11."Give Peace a Chance"John Lennon[nb 1]Hot Chocolate4:33
12."Come and Get It"Paul McCartneyBadfinger2:21
13."Ain't That Cute"Harrison, TroyDoris Troy3:49
14."My Sweet Lord"HarrisonBilly Preston3:22
15."Try Some, Buy Some"HarrisonRonnie Spector4:12
16."Govinda"trad., arr. Mukunda Das AdhikaryRadha Krishna Temple4:46
17."We're On Our Way"HodgeChris Hodge2:59
18."Saturday Nite Special"Darrell HigginbothamThe Sundown Playboys2:12
19."God Save Us"John Lennon, Yoko OnoBill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band3:11
20."Sweet Music"Lon & Derrek Van EatonLon & Derrek Van Eaton3:37
21."Day After Day"Peter HamBadfinger3:09
Total length:71:35

Notes

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Tracks 5, 9, 11 and 18 are MONO. All other tracks are STEREO.

  1. ^ Originally credited to Lennon–McCartney

References

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  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. ^ Hull, Tom (December 2010). "Recycled Goods". Static Multimedia. Retrieved 8 July 2020 – via tomhull.com.
  9. ^ Cavanagh, David (November 2010). "The Apple Remasters". Uncut. p. 112.
  10. ^ "Come And Get It: The Best of Apple Records – The Beatles". thebeatles.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.