# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/82 "2012-08-27T21:48:55Z")
> [@Purd\_Werfect](#): > > [Elliot Smith doing Because](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSdFr3niQM). One of my all time favorite musical acts covering one my all time favorite musical acts. Thanks for posting this, **Purd Werfect** , I think it’s my new favorite Beatles cover! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/83 "2012-08-27T23:36:24Z")
Not covers, but remixes that I actually like more than I like the original (and it’s one of my favorite Beatles songs, so there’s that): [Come Together (SirCular Remix)](http://soundcloud.com/sir-cular/come-together-beatles-remix) [Come Together (David Starfire Remix)](http://soundcloud.com/davidstarfire/come-together-beatles-david-starfire-remix) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/84 "2012-08-28T00:03:26Z")
Bette Midler-In My Life [Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siAVlUxpJXQ) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/85 "2012-08-28T04:47:12Z")
A great cover of Baba O’Riley sequeing into Tomorrow Never Knows by the Greatful Dead. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZL5QYb5z8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZL5QYb5z8) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/86 "2012-08-28T14:41:57Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > _Happiness Is a Warm Gun_-The Breeders > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixd-dZZtpA&nomobile=1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixd-dZZtpA&nomobile=1) That was my answer. They really rock out on the “Mother superior jumped the gun” part. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/87 "2012-08-28T14:48:03Z")
I love Lol Coxhill’s version of **[I am the Walrus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG4xdjaZHu4)**, probably the strangest version of a Beatles song ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/88 "2012-08-28T18:17:25Z")
Funny. I woke up this morning with Billy Preston’s arrangement of “Blackbird” in my ears. Before going out for a run, while waiting for my friend, I tried to remember some of it more concretely. One of the best covers ever. Certainly up there in Beatles covers. Well, that and Laibach’s “Get Back.” ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/89 "2012-08-28T20:44:15Z")
Can’t find a working link, but The Jam did a rocking version of _And Your Bird Can Sing._ ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/90 "2012-08-28T23:02:34Z")
The Alice Cooper version of “Because” (on the otherwise horrible '76 Sgt. Peppers movie soundtrack) is quite wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/91 "2012-08-29T02:42:00Z")
Ray Charles also did a very good version of “Elanor Rigby.” ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/92 "2012-08-29T17:10:42Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I raise you one [Jake Shimabukuro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k&t=0m39s). He’s also done a cover of _While My Guitar Gently Weeps_ in tandem [with violinist Charles Yang](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsUoy8YmOc) that is unbelievable. (The latter of which, by the way, also does an amazing cover of Michael Jackson’s [Billie Jean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Vmr6WWeV8).) I’ve also always liked Rod Stewart’s cover of [Get Back](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fHtC3FaWNI). ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/93 "2012-09-01T02:31:32Z")
I have heard it said about dog lovers that a true dog lover would never just go out and buy a new dog to replace a dog that had died or disappeared. I think that may also apply to Beatle songs in that a true lover of The Beatles would never love or like or even want to listen to a Beatles song that was sung by anyone else. I know many people will say that is just stupid and that if someone can make good music … well … good music is good music after all. But the way I feel about it is that I loved the Beatles and still do love their music and I have absolutely no interest in hearing any of their songs performed by anyone else. If anyone else wants to display their own talent, let them write their own songs or let them record any songs they like. But, if it’s a Beatles song, I just don’t want to hear it. P.S. My feeling also applies to any songs by Lennon or Harrison. I don’t care for any of McCartney’s post-Beatles music. I consider it to be almost all style with very little substance. Give me Lennon’s Working Class Hero (that has almost zero music) over any shit performed by Wings any day. I don’t intend any offense to anyone else or any other musicians. My love for The Beatles is just so strong, I can’t find any room for anyone else singing their music. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/94 "2012-09-01T09:47:53Z")
This must be one of the earliest - and weirdest - Beatles covers: Peter Sellers recitation of[A Hard Days Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s). The 1965 television show “The Music of Lennon and McCartney” featured a brilliant recitation of “A Hard Day’s Night” by Peter Sellers as channeled through Laurence Olivier’s performance of Shakespeare’s “Richard III”. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/95 "2012-09-01T10:52:54Z")
I’ll see your Peter Sellers recitation and raise you another: Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove reciting [She Loves You](http://blowtoons.com/item_cartoons.php?item=361) as a conversation with Der Führer. I used to love hearing this on Dr. Demento, and the animation that Meliss did is excellent. On preview: sorry about the ad, but the quality is better than what they posted to youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Katie\_Mae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@Katie\_Mae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katie_Mae)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/97 "2013-05-17T14:03:37Z")
3/1/69…the Dead’s encore cover of “Hey Jude”…Pig’s melodious rendition has never been duplicated! ;)/Katie ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/98 "2013-05-17T23:20:00Z")
> [@Lazlo Hapsburg](#): > > I have heard it said about dog lovers that a true dog lover would never just go out and buy a new dog to replace a dog that had died or disappeared. > > I think that may also apply to Beatle songs in that a true lover of The Beatles would never love or like or even want to listen to a Beatles song that was sung by anyone else. > > I know many people will say that is just stupid and that if someone can make good music … well … good music is good music after all. > > But the way I feel about it is that I loved the Beatles and still do love their music and I have absolutely no interest in hearing any of their songs performed by anyone else. > > If anyone else wants to display their own talent, let them write their own songs or let them record any songs they like. But, if it’s a Beatles song, I just don’t want to hear it. > > P.S. My feeling also applies to any songs by Lennon or Harrison. I don’t care for any of McCartney’s post-Beatles music. I consider it to be almost all style with very little substance. Give me Lennon’s Working Class Hero (that has almost zero music) over any shit performed by Wings any day. > > I don’t intend any offense to anyone else or any other musicians. My love for The Beatles is just so strong, I can’t find any room for anyone else singing their music. I can’t believe I read all this. What a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/99 "2013-05-17T23:34:39Z")
A lot of good covers in this thread. I really like the Shiina Ringo one and I came in to suggest The Feelies. Instead I will submit Paul McCartney covering his own I’ve Just Seen a Face, in a faster version: [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCANOGJAhI) ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/100 "2013-05-18T19:48:42Z")
Elanor Rigby by Ethel The Frog ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/101 "2013-05-18T19:58:40Z")
[Alarm Will Sound’s rendition of _Revolution #9_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjfQSxcq0c) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540/102 "2013-05-18T20:37:33Z")
> [@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) This. Quite possibly the best cover of any Beatles song ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-covers-of-beatles-songs/619540.md?page=6)