Badfinger - Come and Get It download song

I knew when my girlfriend called with this playing in the background, it was gonna be my lucky day / night

“A fool and his money” Sounds like their manager that railed them into the ground and got half of the band to off them self.

Unmistakably McCartney’s fingerprint! Badfinger sounded incredibly “Beatlesque”.

Wow, you can really tell McCartney wrote it by the piano and drums.

McCartney: Record this exactly as I wrote it and you'll have a hit. Badfinger: thanks!!

Cetainly sound like a Beatles tune. Because Paul wrote it for the boys and made them record it exactly the way he heard it.

Thank Paul McCartney for this

I remember waking up to this on the radio at only 7yrs old getting ready for grade school. Loved it!

tragic and sad tale of pete and tommy great band with so much talent i was'nt born when this was first released but i love 1970s music

Not the luckiest band, but they did rock!

From the film, The Magic Christian. A hilarious commentary on capitalism and corruption starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

An undisputed classic written by Paul Mc Cartney..

I heard this at Whole Foods today... crazy...

I was only 12 when this song first came out. Fort-six years later, I still love this song!!

One of the first songs I remember as a small child. Still great to listen to.

that is a great song by paul mccartney.

One of my favorite bands of old. Interesting tidbit: When they first started recording out of the Abbey Road facility on the Apple label, everyone thought they were the Beatles "in disguise" because of the similarity in the sounds of the two groups. In fact, Paul McCartney was responsible for "discovering" Badfinger and bringing them to the Apple label. He even went so far as to provide them with music he had penned, to rewrite or revise music they had written, and to assist them with vocal harmonies. Sadly, Badfinger also turned out to be one of the most tragic of bands of that era as well with two of the members of the group committing suicide over financial difficulties after an American business manager mismanaged the band's financial affairs. The first suicide - at the bewitching age of 27 - was that of the Swansea, Wales lead singer / song writer Pete Ham. The second suicide was that of his best friend and bandmate Tom Evans, who had discovered Ham's body. A book entitled "Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger" examines the genius and eventual tragedy that was Badfinger from their beginning to their end. It is highly recommended if you can find it.

Tragic story. I still feel sad every time I hear one of their songs.

There's an understated irony in a then-up-and-coming band performing this song joyously and smiling without a care as to what the song is about. I don't think McCartney ever discussed the themes that were injected into this song when he wrote it, but if you know the story, it's fairly obvious: it's the voice of someone in the record company with authority trying to entice the band into joining them and signing contracts. It's all the more poignant when you find out what happened to Badfinger in the end and what precipitated their ruin. The Beatles wanted nothing to do with Apple around the time due to the business headaches they brought and this song was written in the throes of that period for the group. Symbolically, it's as if McCartney was passing the torch to Badfinger in terms of being the next big thing but also being left to the machinations and deceptions of the record industry, namely Apple - four wide-eyed naive youths lacking the exposure to the industry that the Beatles had seen previously.