No problem. I am just pleased that you like it. Hopefully you will find many other covers that you enjoy. I have posted the updated list which includes all of the other covers mentioned in the thread.
It's such a phenomenal list. I can't get over it! Am trying to get up the nerve to listen to Katy Perry tackle Hey Jude!
Thanks, I had no idea the anyone other than Peter and Gordon had sung this. Does this count as a Beatles song and should I include it on the list? With very other song on the list, we have a version by the Beatles. Hopefully the Beatles demo will be fully released one day.
I assume this is legit? Not someone mucking around for a laugh? Well, it's given me a new appreciation for Katy's own recorded works. Am off to listen to This Is How We Do. Based on this it's tons better than Hey Jude!
It was a Lennon/McCartney song written in the mid 1960's so I'd count as a Beatles song personally, but it depends. Also a Paul McCartney demo has surfaced recently, albeit an incomplete one:
I have found another cover to add to the list: Glen Tilbrook (of Squeeze) with Nine Below Zero covering You Never Give Me Your Money.
Some of the oddest covers include: Mae West - Day Tripper (Hearing this 1930's star sing a Beatles song is strange) Peter Gabriel - Strawberry Fields Forever (Mainly because of his Kermit vocals) David Bowie - Love Me Do (It is just strange to hear him sing this song live) The Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus and Moby - Lucy In The Sky (Hearing Miley sing this is like some sort of nightmare ) Decca and the Dectones with Jessica Mitford - Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Perhaps the weirdest of all, hearing a Mitford sister sing is just plain odd)
Forgot another one, Nick Heyward did an ep of Beatles stuff,but the only one I could find is Nowhere Man Scott McCarl (Raspberries) did Yes it Is. .
Fantastic list! Interesting that there are 6 covers of "Revolution 9" and only 2 of "Your Mother Should Know." Also check out Big Daddy's cover of the entire Sgt. Pepper album '50s-style (out of print but worth searching for), Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles, and Booker T and the MGs McLemore Avenue album (covers of Abbey Road songs). And 10 years after the Beatles covered Buck Owens' "Act Naturally", Buck returned the favor by covering "Lady Madonna."
Yes, it is quite amazing how often Revolution 9 has been covered. I have included the McLemore Avenue album, it is just spread throughout the list. I will look up the others.
Wonderful! I would never have thought of doing this one Western swing style, but here it is and it works! If this is from a Stephane Grappelli TV show, I'm guessing that's Grappelli on "fiddle." Olivia should have released this.
She was in great voice then, wasn't she? I know she used to do this in concert in the 70s in the States. This version is from a TV series she fronted in the UK in 1974 called Moods Of Love. A lot of audio tracks from the shows are on YouTube, but very little visual footage remains.
Also, Johnny Rivers did "I'll Be Back" on his Reinvention Highway album about 10 years ago. In 1967, the Last Words did a slow, almost dirge-like version of "No Reply." In 1969(I think), Theodore Bikel did "For No One", "Piggies", and "Mother Nature's Son" on his album A New Day, a true lost classic produced by Richard Perry. And there are reportedly how many covers of "Yesterday?"
Bee Gees and Peter Frampton - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends (Medley) Frankie Howerd and Sandy Farina - When I'm Sixty-Four Sandy Farina - Here Comes the Sun Dianne Steinberg and Stargard - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
probably lots of duplicates includes songs The Beatles covered list too big to post at SH see it here http://beatlescovers.bizerks.com/
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Blue Oyster Cult. They did this live a few weeks after John's death. It's on the Rarities disc included with The Complete Columbia Albums Collection.
