Beatles Covers You Like

I like the flute solo.

"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" by Joe Cocker

I once saw Mare Winningham on The Gong Show singing, "Here, There and Everywhere". Seemed sweet and appropriate sung by a young girl. In fact, all their songs should have been done by other people.

Dear Prudence - Siouxsie And The Banshees

"Taxman" by Stevie Ray Vaughan. He sings it with a sort of malevolent glee, as if he's gloating over how he's screwing you over.

The other Siouxsie cover of The Beatles, Helter Skelter:

The Breeders, Happiness is a Warm Gun:

Ticket to Ride - The Carpenters

None. I prefer my Beatles good and Beatle-y.

You knew there had to be an R8.

Can’t find the video, but Phil Hendrie as Lloyd Bonafide did a fun cover of Norwegian Wood

I don't think anyone will like this but I really like Laibach's cover of the album Let It Be. Here's I Me Mine.

I love Aretha's version of Let It Be.

Sterephonics cover of Don't Let Me Down

Rob Thomas' cover of Don't Let Me Down

Jennifer Hudson's cover of Golden Slumbers/ The Weight

T.V Carpio's cover of I Want to Hold Your Hand

Fiona Apple's version of Across the Universe

Most songs from Bee Gees/Peter Frampton "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band"

Holly Cole - I've Just Seen a Face

Sarah Vaughan - And I Love Her 1969

Styx - I Am The Walrus.

I saw them do this in concert. I don't believe they ever put in on one of their albums.

Sarah Vaughan - "Fool on the Hill"

Tomorrow Never Knows - Ride

[quote]I especially like the introduction of the jazzy organ as she begins singing about Father McKenzie at church.

Thanks, OP. Father McKenzie molested me with his jazzy organ.

OP's favorite movie.

Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook covering “ You Never Give Me Your Money”

Elliott Smith - Because

The Wallflowers - I’m Looking Through You

Yes - Every Little Thing

Styx - I Am the Walrus

They have live performance videos on YouTube. Here's a link.

The Queen of the covers improves this Beatles song...… Help by Tina Turner

Dionne Farris, Blackbyrd

Chaka Khan applies concentrated funk to We Can Work It Out.

She’s in top vocal form.

Sigourney Weaver covering "Back in the USSR" in the otherwise quite terrible movie Heartbreakers. The arrangement is much better than in the original song.

Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett (with Duane Allman)

Here Comes the Sun, Nina Simone

Ok...don't laugh, but Liza Minnelli's version of "For No One".

It's a beautiful Lennon/McCartney song that's not performed much and Liza gives it the right amount of drama. Her voice is a little wobbly and sort of flat...but I'd don't know, it works for me.

Helter Skelter--Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson

The song really suits them both considering it's association with the Manson murders.

Ok, don't flog me but Madonna's "Imagine" cover.

"Got To Get You Into My Life" - Earth, Wind & Fire

Esther Phillips - And I Love Him

The Fray - Fixing A Hole

The problem with the premise of this thread is that The Beatles Never Existed, so all of their tunes were cover tunes from go.

What R39?

Sergio Mendes

Is r39 talking about that new Danny Boyle movie?

Anne Murray -- "You Won't See Me"

Laibach -Across the Universe (1989)

This interpretation comes straight from the Soviet Union.

The singer is absolutely stunning, and it appears Ivan the Terrible offers a cameo Hare Krishna vocal at the end.

The video is as interesting as the song itself. The USSR was a year or so away from the coup to topple Gorbachev. IMO, the expression on everyone in this video showed the apprehension of the time.

It's surpringly good r43.

Did the Beatles and the Stones ever cover each other?

I prefer Anne Murray's "Daydream Believer" cover over The Monkees. She sounds like a mom trying to get her child out of bed, while Davy Jones' high English voice can't disguise the sadness.

Lennon and McCartney wrote "I Wanna Be Your Man" for the Stones, r46

Here's the link for the Russian version of Across the Universe.

Julie Covington - “In My Life”

The Beatles Never Existed. 'The Beatles' was an MI6 Project slash Theo Adorno cover band composed of public characters who were played by a rotating cast of assets. It's difficult to believe, at first. If you start to actually look at the photos and footage and all the other things that just don't add up, it becomes obvious that at the very least there were multiple people publicly identified as each of 'The Beatles'.

The Beatles Never Existed. 'The Beatles' was an MI6 Project slash Theo Adorno cover band composed of public characters who were played by a rotating cast of assets. R51

I'll believe that when they get inducted into the Rock and Roll HOF.

Marvin Gaye covering "Yesterday".

Nancy Sinatra -- "Day Tripper"

R35, I'll flog you for not knowing "Imagine" is a John Lennon solo song, not a Beatles' song.

David Bowie: Across The Universe

OT, but since I woke up this morning I’ve had “No Reply” rattling around inside my head

this one

Harry Nilsson - You Can't Do That. It's really a Beatles medley and it's amazing.

R55

I wrote Imagine!

Cher, Tina Turner and Kate Smith doing a Beatles medley on the Cher Show 1975. This IS Datalounge you know......

Oops, here it is

Kenny Rankin - Blackbird

Since we mentioned Nancy, let's add her dad.

Aretha Franklin's funk-soul cover of "Eleanor Rigby"

Fiona Apple - Across The Universe

Third vote for Fiona Apple's Across the Universe!! Rufus Wainwright's version is also good.

The absolutely fabulous Big Maybelle's R&B Eleanor Rigby. Her album, Got a Brand New Bag, is a playlist on Youtube and it's an album of wonderful covers of mid-60's rock.

I heard Dolly Parton's cover of Help. I wanted to rip my ears off.

George Michael - The Long And Winding Road

Petula Clark did a cover of “Here, There and Everywhere.” Very sophisticated.

Chicago, Terry Kath era, did a good cover of “Got to Get You Into My Life.”

Reba's version of "If I Fell"

Ray Charles covers of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" are great.

Kenny Rankin - "Blackbird"

Anne Murray _ "You Won't See Me"

Joe Cocker - "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Robin Gibb - "Oh! Darling"

John PIzzarelli-- "And I Love Her"

Carpenters : "Help!"

R62, thank you. !! How have I never seen that before??!! I'm dying laughing. Kate Smith? WTF?

This possibly is the gayest thing I've ever seen. The rainbow set, before the rainbow flag was really associated with gay community/gay rights. Their dresses....each of them! Everything about it is amazing!

Ray Charles's cover of "Something". I don't think it's ever been released in any format other than vinyl.

Natalie Cole's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Many a queen lip-synced to this back in the day.

Speaking of Tina . . . I've always loved Ike & Tina's 1970 version of "Come Together." The original lyrics were just (intentional) gibberish, but when Tina sings them, they seem raw and dirty.

R55 Forgot about that, forgive my age. But to some wasn't he "The Beatles". *gasp* controversy.

R77 That clip has been on YouTube for years now. Mario Cantone has mentioned it in his act. I love the way Kate Smith looks exactly like Dame Edna.

Pop culture was a blast back then.

Oh...and if you're interested there are a lot of Cher/Tina clips out there. They were fabulous together....great chemistry. It's a shame they never did a TV special or film together.

Karen Carpenter's Nowhere Man, sung when she was 17.

The Beatles doing any Beatles song.

When I was a kid there was a classical version of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack I heard, and it always stayed with me. Does anyone else remember it?

Hate to hijack this thread for a minute, but r77 THIS is the gayest thing you'll ever see.

Mother Nature's Son by Ramsey Lewis

Jealous Guy by Donny Hathaway (I know it's Lennon solo but this is so good!)

Another enjoyable Come Together

Here's the Hollyridge Strings doing the title song, r86. I don't know about an classical version of the entire soundtrack.

Ike Turner's Beatles Wig should be classified as one of the Wonders of the World.

Fiona Apple. Better than the original.

r93 thinks she's too important to bother reading a thread before posting in it.

Beatles are overrated.

r94 thinks things are only allowed to be posted once per thread. At least she's typing something other than "R__, see R__" this year.

Where do these cunts come from with their strange rules and requests?

A post like r95 was bound to happen.

r96, I've been here since 2003. It's basic netiquette. What shower room splooge puddle did you writhe out of?

I almost prefer this to the original - give it a chance.

R98 Do you really think people are going to go back and check to see whether a Beatles song has already been listed, particularly since threads here go to 600 posts? It's not "basic netiquette." It's basic control queen behavior on the part of you "see" queens, and it is the height of unreasonability. I hate posters like you the way some people hate racists and homophobes. Because you are unreasonable.

BTW, I'm not the "Across the Universe" poster who was dissed, you stinking moron.

Ok can we have one DL thread that doesn't derail?

r100 can't count and mistakenly believes her "contributions" are more desirable than a fart in a crowded elevator.

Aerosmith Come Together, I can't believe I forgot that one.

Phoebe Snow - Don't Let Me Down

r102 thinks r102 is funny.

Because

Love this... Shirley Bassey "Something"

For r102:

I prefer Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees to the Beatles' version.

Two of Us has a few covers but I really liked the Aimee Mann/Michael Penn version.

Not a good cover by any means, but there is entertainment value in it:

Shirley Horn did Yesterday on her final album, May the Music Never End.

At first, I thought, oh fuck, another saccharine version of a song that’s been covered into oblivion already.

And then, when I listened to the whole album, I realized that the entire record was about finality.

She’s looking back into her past with regret, longing, and wonder at the end of her life. Her understatement and pensive delivery never worked better.

The fact that it was written by McCartney in his early twenties makes Horn’s end-of-life interpretation all the more powerful: “Yesterday came suddenly.”

It’s a line I appreciate more deeply in the final third of my own life.

And from the other end of the age spectrum, the cover of The Long and Winding Road on the 1970s Langley Schools Music Project features a solo from a child whose road at that point was quite short and probably more direct than winding.

Yet the kid’s tremulous delivery somehow draws attention to the lyric in an ironic, beautiful , and wholly unexpected way.

R72 Wow! Reba could of crossed over to Pop completely if she dropped the drawl like she did there.

Renee Geyer's cover of And I Love Him.

And, as has already been mentioned, Nina Simone's Here Comes The Sun.

Alex Chilton's I'm So Tired. He really sounds like he means it, man.

"Hide Your Love Away" by Glands of External Secretion Featuring Barbara Manning on vocals. From the release 'Demonstrate Congo Bob's Epic Saliva Torture' released in 1992 on the Starlight Furniture Co. label as STAR-1.

Blackbird by Carly Simon from her Into the White album, which as a whole sounds like a long lullaby for grown-ups.

Ramsey Lewis covered a bunch of White Album songs on his Mother Nature’s Son record, which straddles a line between jazz and elevator music. It’s a fun listen.

Rocky Raccoon:

[quote]Blackbird by Carly Simon from her [bold]Into the White album[/bold]

Hahaha...get it?

"Ticket to ride" by The Carpenters

"Help" by Tina Turner

Hendrix covering Sgt. Pepper, 2 days after it comes out.

[quote]Reba could of crossed over

Oh, dear.

A different kind of Beatles "cover."

Good one, r124.

Helen Merrill did a rattles record. It’s a crazy collision of styles that initial made me double over with laughter, but not long after, I became a fan and played the album repeatedly, much to the chagrin of my family, who also had to hear it.

Mae West...."Day Tripper"

Mrs. Miller's "A Hard Day's Night"

^^Her cover of "Yellow Submarine" is better.

Beatles medley

^ So happy to see Bobbie Gentry back in the thread in such a very unexpected and disguised fashion.

Keely Smith doing A Hard Day’s Night like Peggy Lee did Fever.

Roseanne Cash had a nice country hot with I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party.

R87, the gayest thing I’ve ever seen is Peter Allen’s « Go to Rio » video.

Cheap Trick - Magical Mystery Tour

Bobbie Gentry returns with a cover of Here, There, and Everywhere - in Spanish. The translation stuffs in more syllables than the stanzas allow, but she sounds great in Spanish.

Peter Sellers -- "A Hard Day's Night"

More Sellers "Dr. Strangelove" -- "She Loves You"

The best cover of Dear Prudence, by Australia's Doug Parkinson (sometime nicknamed Drug Parkingzone).

And the best Beatles cover ever: Rick Springfield on guitar as a member of Zoot (from Adelaide, South Australia) playing a dynamite, heavy version of 'Eleanor Rigby'. Even McCartney said it was better than The Beatles' version. The singer was Daryl Cotton.

Dusty Springfield should've done a full Beatles album.

She playful and bluesy here.