My favorites are by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, but this one is up there too: Hey Bulldog - Bill Deal & the Rhondells (1969)
When Paul appeared on Colbert's show in September 2019, he said that this was his favorite cover of "Yesterday" -- Yesterday - Marvin Gaye (From "That's the Way Love Is" album, 1969)
I love that Billy J Kramer version already posted as well. Do You Want To Know A Secret - Count Basie (1966)
Wee Willie Walker wasn't even close to famous, but the soul singer did a nice bangin' version of this one on the great, underrated Memphis-based Goldwax label -- Ticket To Ride - Wee Willie Walker (ca. 1967)
This is probably my favorite Beatles cover of all-time. Sometimes I like it even better than the original!
This is surprisingly good. Done in the style of The Mojo Men's version of "Sit Down I Think I Love You" I Will / Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti
Fever Tree in 1968. It incorporates not just the 2 songs, but a melodic reference to 2 other Beatles songs.
This might’ve been 1970... but recorded in ‘69 I believe. George Benson “Here Comes the Sun” (his entire Other Side of Abbey Road album is great).
One of those rare times where the cover surpasses the original. Roy Redmond’s “Good Day Sunshine” is a model for how to successfully cover a song and deserves to be every bit as celebrated as Cocker’s “With a Little Help...”
man, there is a heck of a lot of good listening here..a lot of which i'd never even heard of before!! keep it coming...this is my evening sorted right here!
Alma Cogan - Eight Days A Week where she transformed it into an aching big ballad before a pause and going brassy and lively. It's believed John and Paul witnessed the session. She would be gone the following October and I find it a poignant rendition.
Lots I thought of have already been mentioned so here's one of the forum's less loved Beatles tunes from 1969. Arthur Conley - Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
