# Favourite covers of Beatles songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540 "2012-04-21T22:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/61 "2012-04-25T01:41:45Z")
Since he is in the news, Oh Darling! from the Bee Gees’s Sgt Pepper Movie song by Robin Gibb is one of the high spots in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/62 "2012-04-25T17:41:13Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Not actually a Beatles song, though, [their version is a cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_%28That%27s_What_I_Want%29). Well I’ll be damned ! Ignorace fought. Also I used to have S.T.s version of I am the Walrus, loved it and hated the Beatles version, but as I’ve got older started really enjoying the Bs version. As to S.T. haven’t heard their stuff for a good many years. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/63 "2012-04-27T22:56:26Z")
A Japanese lady named Shiina Ringo does the hottest cover of “[Yer Blues](http://youtu.be/vO5rTPl5IGI)” I’ve ever heard. (On another album, she also covers Lennon’s “Starting Over”, very cutely.) She’s a huge fan of late-Beatles psychedelica and John Lennon in particular, and it’s reflected in a lot of her other work. Another Japanese musician who goes by Hyde is notorious for doing a cover of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” when he does solo tours. I’ve seen it; it’s enthusiastic as all get out, but his accent makes it well-nigh incomprehensible. ---
**Author:** ![Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hook)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/64 "2012-04-29T13:01:44Z")
I have a real fondness for this one: [julie covington - in my life - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oZS0tP0oP0) **Julie Covington** doing a performance of **In My Life**. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/65 "2012-04-29T13:35:14Z")
I’ve loved [Assagai’s version of Hey Jude](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mS6deAXRzY)since I heard it about 10 years ago. I prefer it to the original. ---
**Author:** ![goonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@goonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goonhead)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/67 "2012-08-24T01:56:56Z")
“We Can Work it Out” by Stevie Wonder “Fool on the Hill” by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 “With a Little Help From My Friends” by Joe Cocker “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” by Silkie “Here Comes the Sun” by Ritchie Havens “She’s Leaving Home” by the Brad Mehldau Trio ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/68 "2012-08-24T03:44:08Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Wow, lots of Tomorrow Never Knows covers out there…here’s [Phil Collins’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycS3mrt9niQ). Not my favorite, but the first Beatles cover I was aware of as a kid, thanks Mom. Yep, I thought it was just a neat, but original, ending track to my older brother’s vinyl copy of “Face Value”. Took me years to not mentally hear Phil Collins singing the chorus to “Over the Rainbow” on the fade out of Lennon’s version, which I discovered much too late in life to admit here. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/69 "2012-08-24T03:51:29Z")
> [@goonhead](#): > > “We Can Work it Out” by Stevie Wonder > > “Fool on the Hill” by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 > > **“With a Little Help From My Friends” by Joe Cocker** > > “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” by Silkie > > “Here Comes the Sun” by Ritchie Havens > > “She’s Leaving Home” by the Brad Mehldau Trio Came in to post that. What can I say, Winnie Cooper was my 1st crush. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/70 "2012-08-26T14:13:02Z")
One of my favorite Beatle covers not mentioned yet - Bob Welch’s cover of “I Saw Her Standing There”. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsfTQcmidQ) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/71 "2012-08-26T14:34:50Z")
Maybe I’m a sentimental fool but I like the movie _Across the Universe_ with, for example, [I Want to Hold Your Hand sung by T.V. Carpio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92Lyxj7U7Q). ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/72 "2012-08-26T21:47:24Z")
[Eleanor Rigby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhFUXOxm_w) by Thrice. The verses are a bit bland, but the chorus just has this howling intensity. Also- this is the song that made me actually pay attention to the Beatles when I was in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/73 "2012-08-27T03:26:07Z")
Speaking of Joe Cocker, I didn’t care for most of the covers in the movie **Across the Universe** , but I loved Cocker’s version of “Come Together.” ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/74 "2012-08-27T05:38:41Z")
Ray Charles’ Yesterday ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/75 "2012-08-27T05:57:08Z")
> [@denquixote](#): > > Ray Charles’ Yesterday I don’t know Ray’s version of Yesterday, but almost every cover version of the song I have ever heard is dreadful overblown schmaltz compared to Paul’s simple, brilliantly understated original. (Apparently he had quite a fight with the string players, and George Martin, to prevent them from drowning it in schmaltzy vibrato.) This a song that nearly everybody gets wrong after The Beatles (actually Paul on his own) got it very right. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/76 "2012-08-27T06:08:11Z")
ANY Joe Cocker Beatles cover is excellent. Halestorm has a great version of [I Want You (She’s So Heavy)](http://youtu.be/OdbzE68Nyzg) on their EP Reanimate…I’m quite fond of it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/77 "2012-08-27T06:20:28Z")
Not sure if it fits the strict definition of a “cover,” but I really like “Ouverture [I Want To Hold Your Hand]”. It’s the first track of [The Baroque Beatles Book](http://www.amazon.com/Baroque-Beatles-Book-Joshua-Rifkin/dp/B001QITOQG), an album that was arranged by Joshua Rifkin in 1965 and (supposedly) recorded by the “Baroque Ensemble of the Merseyside Kammermusickgesellschaft.” As the name implies, Rifkin took familiar Beatles tunes and put them in baroque settings. Specifically, IWTHYH is done as a toccata and fugue. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/78 "2012-08-27T11:54:28Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZHFxCj3wqaQ/hqdefault.jpg "Billy Bragg featuring Cara Tivey - She's Leaving Home (TOTP)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHFxCj3wqaQ) I am partial to Billy Bragg’s She’s Leaving Home. It’s possibly my favorite Beatles song and his version is even more lonely than the original. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/79 "2012-08-27T12:15:34Z")
Pearl Jam’s **[You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqGpE10zaA)** stops me in my tracks every time. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/80 "2012-08-27T14:55:39Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Cheap Trick used to do a fine live version of\* Day Tripper\*. I’m surprised no one’s mentioned it yet. They also did a great job with _Magical Mystery Tour._ ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/81 "2012-08-27T17:46:26Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > “Fool on the Hill”, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 (showing my age here) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzP-KvfC8QQ&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzP-KvfC8QQ&feature=related) +1. Great cover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540.md?page=5)