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Originally Posted by TDPRI
Their first hit was, "Come and Get it". Paul wrote it for the Beatles. The Beatles recorded it and it was mixed and all done. But since Apple was new and they wanted their new label to have some hits they brought in the Iveys, played them the finished Beatles version of the song and told them to not change a thing. To copy it note for note and make it sound exactly the same.
PS. The Beatles version is on Anthology (III, I think).
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The "Beatles" version (on Anthology III) is just Paul. He went into the studio an hour before the others came in when they were recording "Abbey Road", and recorded "Come and Get It", overdubbing himself on drums, bass, guitar, etc. It's unclear if Paul wrote it for the Beatles, since he had written songs for other artists before.
BTW, for a lesser-known Badfinger gem, check out "Wish You Were Here", they're last album before Pete Ham committed suicide. The album was only out for a month, then pulled for legal reasons, so it's a real lost classic. IIRC, it only made it to CD in Europe, and is OOP in the US (but is not too hard to find, thanks to the internet).