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Redbone was a FunkRock band founded in 1969 by brothers Lolly and Pat Vegas. Their best known single, "Come and Get Your Love", was a Top 5 Billboard hit in 1974. They are the only Native American band to have reached that milestone.

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Redbone was a FunkRock band founded in 1969 by brothers Lolly and Pat Vegas. Their best known single, "Come and Get Your Love", was a Top 5 Billboard ''Billboard'' hit in 1974. They are the only Native American band to have reached that milestone.




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* TitleOnlyChorus: "Come and Get Your Love".

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Redbone was a FunkRock band. Their best known single, "Come and Get Your Love", was a Top 5 Billboard hit in 1974. They are the only Native American band to have reached that milestone.

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Redbone was a FunkRock band.band founded in 1969 by brothers Lolly and Pat Vegas. Their best known single, "Come and Get Your Love", was a Top 5 Billboard hit in 1974. They are the only Native American band to have reached that milestone.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Lolly Vegas, Pat Vegas, Pete [=DePoe=], and Tony Bellamy]]

->''"Lolly and I decided we were going to get back to our roots. Everybody said 'No, man, that ain't gonna make it, that ain't gonna happen. Indians don't sing.'"''
-->'''Pat Vegas''', Redbone member

Redbone was a FunkRock band. Their best known single, "Come and Get Your Love", was a Top 5 Billboard hit in 1974. They are the only Native American band to have reached that milestone.

In 2021 a graphic novel, ''Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band'' by Christian Staedler and Sonia Paoloni and illustrated by Thibault Balahy, was published.

!!Original Members:
* Lolly Vegas, guitar and vocals
* Pat Vegas, bass and vocals
* Peter [=DePoe=], drums
* Tony Bellamy, guitar and vocals


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* AnimatedMusicVideo: "Come and Get Your Love" had an official video released on 2020. It includes animated historical photographs.
* BandOfRelatives: Brothers Lolly and Pat Vegas.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Lolly and Pat were of Yaqui and Shoshone ancestry. Peter [=DePoe=] was a Cheyenne ceremonial drummer before joining.
* ManlyFacialHair: Makes sense, given the band's start in TheSeventies.
* MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico: As seen above on the Mexican-American Pat Vegas.
* NWordPrivileges: Music/JimiHendrix suggested to them that they adopt a name that reflected their indigenous roots. "Redbone" is an epithet of Cajun origin for people of mixed race
* ShedTheFamilyName: Lolly and Pat started out playing SurfRock as the Vegas Brothers. Their agent had told them that the world was not quite ready to embrace two Mexican-Americans playing that type of music, so they changed their names from Vasquez.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Come and Get Your Love".

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