...What artist(s) performed your favorite rendition of a Beatles tune?
Name a few if you like!
2007-10-01 13:21:41 · 16 answers · asked by Smiley 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
chainlightning38 - I have that George Benson album too...great stuff!
Check out Booker T. and the MG's. They covered much of the Abbey Road album on this in 1970:
McLemore Avenue:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/booker_t__and_the_mgs/mclemore_avenue/
It's worth a listen. Pretty Good!
2007-10-01 14:15:17 · update #1
George Benson covered all of Abbey Road three weeks after it's release. It titled "The Other Side of Abbey Road" and it's very good.
2007-10-01 14:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Chaine de lumière 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Got To Get You Into My Life" - Earth, Wind, & Fire
"Get Back" - Billy Preston
"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" - The Silkie
"Oh! Darling" - Robin Gibb
"Hey Jude" - Wilson Pickett
"Birthday" - Underground Sunshine
"With A Little Help From My Friends" - Joe Cocker
"I Want To Be Your Man" - The Rolling Stones
For a truly cheesy and awful cover of a Beatles song, check out William Shatner's version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". You won't soon forget it.
2007-10-01 14:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boyz II Men "Yesterday"
Johnny Cash "In My Life"
Joan Baez "Eleanor Rigby"
Stevie Ray Vaughan "Taxman"
Aretha Franklin "The Long and Winding Road"
Emmylou Harris "For No One"
Rufus Wainwright "Across the Universe"
John Denver "Mother Nature's Son"
2007-10-01 22:15:53 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Madonna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's got to be Aerosmith's Come Together.
The Foo Fighters did Blackbird?? Why?
William Shatner's version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is so terrible it's awesome
2007-10-03 14:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spineshank - Synthetic Korn - Here to Stay Slipknot - Duality Gob - Paint It Black Cave In - Anchor Marilyn Manson - Dope Hat Turbonegro - F*** the World Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy Transplants - Diamonds and Guns Metallica - My Friend of Misery Psycore - Full Blood Freak Strapping Young Lad - Underneath the Waves the Tea Party - Fire in the Head Downer - Last Time Orgy - Blue Monday
2016-05-18 06:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a CD called the "Blues White Album" wjth all the following artists on it:
Tab Benoit - vocals
Jimmy Carpenter -- saxophone
Chris Duarte -- vocal and guitars
Colin Linden -- vocal and guitar
Maria Muldaur - vocal
Charlie Musselwhite - harmonica
Kenny Neal - vocal and harmonica
Anders Osborne -- vocal and all instruments
Lucky Peterson -- vocal, lead guitar and organ
Jimmy Thackery -- vocals and guitar; and The Drivers
Joe Louis Walker -- vocal and lead guitar
T-Bone Wolk -- vocal
It is a very good CD.
2007-10-01 14:17:33 · answer #6 · answered by wowwhatisthatthing 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought one of the most innovative and creative "covers", if you can call it that, was by one of John's good friends, Harry Nilsson. On Harry's debut album,"Pandemonium Shadow Show", he took Beatles song titles and strung them all together in a coherent manner and called it "You Can't Do That". Of course it contained "You Can't Do That!"
If you want to speak of ~literal~ "covers", you, better than most people, would have to admit, that the COVER of "We're Only in it for the Money" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention would HAVE to qualify as the best "cover" of a Beatles ~cover~ in existence! ;)
2007-10-01 14:25:38 · answer #7 · answered by DocRock 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rock didnt start with the Beatles. They did cover songs of 50's artists. " Let it Be Me' was also the title of an Everly Brothers hit.
2007-10-01 20:27:11 · answer #8 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever heard of the group Sparks led by the Mael brothers, Ron and Russell. They did I Wanna Hold Your Hand which I think was simply awesome. It was done in a slow jazzy manner. Really unique.
2007-10-02 01:38:16 · answer #9 · answered by ash_beer59 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ohh, I have many:
Rufus Wainwright- Across the Universe
The Wallflowers- I'm Looking Through You
The Vines- I'm Only Sleeping
2007-10-01 13:58:50 · answer #10 · answered by meep meep 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋