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.
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.
A Japanese lady named Shiina Ringo does the hottest cover of “Yer Blues” 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.
I have a real fondness for this one:
julie covington - in my life - YouTube
Julie Covington doing a performance of In My Life.
I’ve loved Assagai’s version of Hey Judesince I heard it about 10 years ago. I prefer it to the original.
“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
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.
Came in to post that. What can I say, Winnie Cooper was my 1st crush.
One of my favorite Beatle covers not mentioned yet - Bob Welch’s cover of “I Saw Her Standing There”.
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.
Eleanor Rigby 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.
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.”
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.
ANY Joe Cocker Beatles cover is excellent.
Halestorm has a great version of I Want You (She’s So Heavy) on their EP Reanimate…I’m quite fond of it.
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, 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.
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.
Pearl Jam’s You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away stops me in my tracks every time.
They also did a great job with Magical Mystery Tour.
+1. Great cover.