"The Best Lennon-McCartney song that they never wrote"

Lots of stuff by The Move!

Particularly Roy Wood's:
Beautiful Daughter & Blackberry Way

And especially after Jeff Lynne joined the group with:
No Time & The Minister

 

The Red Button

 

Procol Harum ‎– A Whiter Shade Of Pale
After 1st hearing it Lennon said that he wished he wrote it.

 

Mr Blue Sky

 

Paul wrote that song though.

 

Is It Like Today-World Party

(possibly, more the best song a hypothetical still-extant-in-1974 wrote)

 

Not The Girl You Think You Are - Crowded House

 

"Let's Be Natural" would be a good one, or perhaps "It's Looking Good"
Now see what you've started

 

For Paul - Get Up and Go, The Rutles
For John - Piggy in the Middle, The Rutles
For John and Paul - Something, The Beatles (think Frank Sinatra!)

 

"Ticket With No Return" by Orgone Box. It is on YouTube and is a Beatlesque marvel!

 

'Shiny Cage' by the Dukes of Stratosphear... sort of Revolver condensed into one song...

 

Not sure what this means. Wichita Lineman comes to mind. If you mean pastiche, I suppose Back of a Car by Big Star.

How about Beatles doing Everybody’s Happy Nowadays b/w Why Can’t I Touch It?

 

Back in the late 90s a friend of mine asked me if I would make a C90 cassette of Beatles songs for them, with the song choices being mine. I put The Rutles "Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik" on there for a laugh, he never ever realised it wasn't a genuine Beatles song!

 

Forgive me if it's already been mentioned (I can't access You Tube at work) but "Our House" by Crosby, Stills and Nash would get my vote.

 

'No Words' by Wings

 

BLUR.....`BEETLEBUM`.
A Beatles parody, and a sneaky swipe at `Oasis`, could the title refer to `Noel`...surely not!

 

TEARS FOR FEARS....`SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE`



And everything ELO ever did!

 

"My Before And After" by Cotton Mather (sounds just like a "Revolver" outtake)

 

Interesting you should bring this one up - an old work colleague of mine used to say this sounded like this should be a George Harrison song

 

Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
If You want My Love - Cheap Trick

 

Pick and choose from Utopia's Deface the Music album.

 

Soldier of Love.