60s covers of Beatles’ songs - what are some of your favourites?

The Fourmost - Here, There and Everywhere

 

Ella Fitzgerald - Can't Buy Me Love

 

Billy Preston, "Eight Days a Week":

 

The Booker T and The MG's ' Abbey Road ' album.
I think it was released in early '70 so recorded in late '69.

 

Darning his socks in the night when no one was there.

 

I suppose this thread wouldn't be complete without this:



Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass / All My Loving

 

I've always liked this version a bit more than the Beatles... the drumming alone is more exciting.

 

Yup! To me, this is best of the bunch. OK, it's the only Beatles cover I ever heard until the 70s.

 

Or this.

Mrs. Miller - A Hard Day's Night

 

Another Ella song - Savoy Truffle which I think she recorded in 1969

https://youtu.be/9KmvANzwRWk

 

For me the very best of that era are these:

Joe Cocker - "With A Little Help From My Friends"
Yes - "Every Little Thing"
Carpenters - "Ticket To Ride"
Rolling Stones - "I Wanna Be Your Man"
Nilsson - "You Can't Do That"
+
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Blackbird" (recorded in 1969 but not released until 1991)

 

Tammy Wynette - Yesterday

 

Träd, gräs och stenar - All along the watch tower.

Heavy swedish psychedelic.

 

Umm...is this a Beatles cover?

 

"Lady Madonna" by Fats Domino

 

Sorry

 

Geez, I love that.

A big favourite for me is The Sunshine Company doing 'I Need You'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avANncr8GyU

 

One more from the Carpenters. Rich and Karen on all the vocals, Rich on the keys and Karen & Hal Blaine on drums. From their 1970 Close To You lp. This is the original audio but it is always fun seeing Karen pounding her kit.

 

Esther Phillips, And I Love Him

 

Lonnie Mack, From Me to You

 

Wes Montgomery - A Day in the Life

 

Neighb'rhood Childr'n - Can't Buy Me Love

 

Joe Meek produces a Beatles cover -- "All My Loving" by the Dowlands, released in the U.S. as Tollie 9002:

 

Didn't see anyone list this one. Goes back to '68 -- for those who like heavy psychedelic --

Help - Deep Purple (1968)

 

Shirley Scott w/Stanley Turrentine, like the Lonnie Mack above this wasn't issued at the time, Turrentine also did a version of this on his own around the same time but it wasn't issued initially either.