# help me think of covers of Beatles songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779 "2006-10-09T04:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/41 "2006-10-09T21:22:39Z")
Oops, meant to post this as well. Laurence Juber has record a CD of Beatles songs for solo acoustic guitar. [LJ Plays the Beatles](http://laurencejuber.com/music/beatles.html). He has also done a similar collection of Wings songs, because Paul asked him to when he heard about the Beatles CD. (Laurence used to be in Wings.) [One Wing](http://laurencejuber.com/music/onewing.html). ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/42 "2006-10-09T21:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] Cheap Trick do a great spooky/menacing “Magical Mystery Tour”. [/QUOTE] Cheap Trick also did a cover of “Day Tripper”. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/43 "2006-10-10T00:17:21Z")
Bob Welsh does a good cover of “I Saw Her Standing There” on his Three Hearts album. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/44 "2006-10-10T01:19:19Z")
“Tomorrow Never Knows” by 801 “It’s All Too Much” by Steve Hillage “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Rain” by Todd Rundgren “Blackbird” by Jeff Beck “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by Peter Frampton “I Am The Walrus” by Crack the Sky ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/45 "2006-10-10T04:59:01Z")
Echo and the Bunnymen did a good version of All You Need is Love. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/46 "2006-10-10T07:24:38Z")
**Stevie Ray Vaughan** - _Taxman_ **Celine Dion** - _Here, There and Everywhere_. And it’s actually a good version. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/47 "2006-10-10T07:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] The soundtrack to Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Aerosmith version of Come Together is pretty good and Steve Martin doing Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is fun. The best version of Yesterday is by Ray Charles. [/QUOTE] I’ll see you, and raise you the soundtrack to _All This and World War Too_. “Get Back” by Rod Stewart, “Fool on the Hill” by Tina Turner “Magical Mystery Tour” by Ambrosia, “She’s Leaving Home” by Brian Ferry… ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/48 "2006-10-10T11:26:21Z")
I forgot about this one, I guess it qualifies as a cover. My daughter gave me a bootleg of Phish doing the entire White Album in concert. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/49 "2006-10-10T12:19:02Z")
**Cornershop** did a fabulous Punjabi cover of _Norwegian Wood_. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/50 "2006-10-10T16:02:36Z")
Isn’t the sound track for “I Am Sam” basically one Beatle cover after another? ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/51 "2006-10-10T16:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=ddgryphon] Isn’t the sound track for “I Am Sam” basically one Beatle cover after another? [/QUOTE] Why indeed it is: > **[I Am Sam - Original Soundtrack - I Am Sam - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TT77)** > > Album features new renditions of Beatles Classics: " Blackbird", by Sarah McClachlan " Two of Us", by Aimee Mann / Michael Penn " I'm Looking Through Yo u", by the Wallflowers " Strawberry Fields", by Ben Harper " Golden Slumbers", by Ben Folds. Song list: 1. Two of Us - Aimee Mann & Michael Penn 2. Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan 3. Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright 4. I’m Looking Through You - The Wallflowers 5. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away - Eddie Vedder 6. Strawberry Fields - Ben Harper 7. Mother Nature’s Son - Sheryl Crow 8. Golden Slumbers - Ben Folds 9. I’m Only Sleeping - The Vines 10. Don’t Let Me Down - Stereophonics 11. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Black Crowes 12. Julia - Chocolate Genius 13. We Can Work It Out - Heather Nova 14. Help - Howie Day 15. Nowhere Man - Paul Westerberg 16. Revolution - Grandaddy 17. Let It Be - Nick Cave ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779/52 "2006-10-10T16:40:29Z")
“Yesterday” has been done by En Vogue and Leann Rimes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-of-covers-of-beatles-songs/375779.md?page=2)