[Music] Best Beatles Covers

[studio150]

Just been reading an article where the following were put forward as the 10 essential cover versions of Beatles classics.

Esther Phillips - And I Love Him
Ray Charles - Yesterday
Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude
Al Green - I want To Hold Your Hand
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Booker T & The MGs - Medley: Sun King/Mean Mr Mustard/Polythene Pam.She Cam In Through The bathroom Window/I Want You (she's So Heavy)
Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence
Oasis - I Am The Walrus


So any that should have been on the list or quirky versions.

Personally surprised the following were omitted

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Dear Prudence for me.

 

[Bognor Bystander]

Twist and Shout - The Orchestra (former members of ELO II) - it's brilliant Live !

 

[gripper stebson]

If you are yet to see The Beat Bugs you are in for a treat!

https://youtu.be/rMFIgoww-lk

https://youtu.be/ZXWFHMe_1p8

https://youtu.be/Wi_SIwFGXhk

https://youtu.be/9LhJP8EWKoc

 

[Icy Gull]

Twist and Shout - The Orchestra (former members of ELO II) - it's brilliant Live !

A cover of a cover then

 

[Icy Gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIrCCL0XqY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnct7Qf3SUQ

 

[dejavuatbtn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIrCCL0XqY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnct7Qf3SUQ

Not sure if this is technically a Beatles copy of a Stones single that was written by Lennon and McCartney.

 

[DumLum]

Wait for it...

 

[clapham_gull]

Essential

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

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

William Shatner - Lucy in the sky with diamonds

 

[clapham_gull]

Give it 19 secs...

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

 

[Stato]

Got to include the Weddoes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_NQVFKKsY

And Steve Harley:

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

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I quite like this:

 

[Big_Unit]

Very much worth the wait for Prince at the end...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Here's a lovely album of Beatles covers from my extensive music collection:



and a little heavier:



and a rather classy cover of Let it Be with Gregory Porter

 

[Fungus]

How about the first Lennon-McCartney song to reach the US charts in 1963?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H55MFCtiB-I

 

[BBassic]

 

[Stato]

Cash's voice on this was as emotionally raw as it ever got:

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

I've got a live bootleg where Billy Bragg joins the Redskins on stage (introduced by Chris Dean as Neil Kinnock's publicity officer) to do a storming 'Back In The USSR'. I can't find it on the internet.

 

[Fungus]

Give it 19 secs...

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

Ooooh, yes, please, please...

 

[brakespear]

Got to include the Weddoes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_NQVFKKsY

Was my first thought, along with Billy Bragg's 'She's Leaving Home' and The Fall's 'Day in the Life' off the same album.