http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/exoticbeatles.jpg?t=1306330475
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Also have to give it up for Desmond Dekker & Come Together. Get heavy!
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Hi, I noticed no one mentioned "Eleanor Rigby" by the First Moog Quartet (led by Gershon Kingsley). Kind of a high-speed moog-rock cover with baroque elements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2zDpPMi1ik
― azamarro, Sunday, 23 October 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Really like George Harrison's '74 version of 'In My Life' from his US tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrIbUsCZhA
― obligatory kate winslet nipple shot (Bob Six), Monday, 29 April 2013 07:10 (ten years ago) link
this is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLo5nzK0ayU
― Darin, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
There's an amazing David Axelrod-helmed cover of 'Good Day Sunshine' on this album but I can't find it streaming anywhere. I'll upload it when I get home. It's pretty trippy, and plenty rad.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Chilling with this today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLBeWa70ww
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
nice!
― Darin, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
I’ve never liked obladi oblada so the only way I can actually stand it is repurposed as an instrumental mariachi song:
https://youtu.be/S_zDyhzo1yY
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
haha that's hilarious
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
it's not terribly surprising but ob-la-di ob-la-da sounds better when played by an actual reggae group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdW7Enwdd_s
more surprising to me is that nobody knows ray charles' version of "the long and winding road", considering it's essentially a ray charles song
still haven't heard covers of "you won't see me", "what goes on", or "yellow submarine" i like.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
Cecilia - Dear Prudence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pTc_yvWgg
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
Love Cecilia, never heard that one! Must be an album-only track. She died at 27, sadly.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVMuYfa0EA
wee willie walker - ticket to ride
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
Seconding Danielle Dax’s “Tomorrow Never Know” and Sparks’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” Going back a bit, some other favourites have been Bryan Ferry’s “You Won’t See Me,” Boxer’s “Hey Buldog,” Blue Ash’s “Anytime at All,” and The Residents’ “Hey Jude” which transforms into “Sympathy for the Devil.”
And serious consideration should be given to comedy records. There have been many noteworthy novelties such as the Peter Sellers one already mentioned, Paul Frees singing “Hey Jude” in a Peter Lorre voice, The Roadrunner’s “Long and Winding Road” with cartoon sound effects, the Bob Rivers’ parody “Free as a Turd,” and Mae West singing “Day Tripper,” which has been Golden Throats fodder but which is actually pretty funny and a creditable piece of 1966 garage band rock.
― Leftee, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
Can't stop wondering why Cecilia is singing it "Ha, Prudence"
― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Charlotte Dada's "Don't Let Me Down" is mentioned upthread, but it bears repeating because it's so sublime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-JrLuAaFY
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
― Josefa, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:39 PM (yesterday)
yeah, it's the closing track of her debut album. I love the uncharacteristic pop-psych production; the only other song I've heard of hers that sounds like it is Reuníos, a b-side from 1971 in which she urges the Beatles (unsuccessfully afaict) to reunite. sad that she died so young.
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtpDmZpjsJE
Marcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me Down
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fesUgPrGGDk
Jessica Mitford - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link
here's a bulgarian ye-ye cover of "the night before"
https://youtu.be/CNbgnq9VkNw
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
And Lowell Fulson does "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."
he sure does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9RNPx2_oA
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 July 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
trying to make a mix w/ covers of tracks from "with the beatles"
mostly i've found versions i really enjoy. here are the tracks i'm having trouble with:
all i've got to do - the moon martin and louise goffin versions are okay, but i just think they're okay.
all my loving - kinda like prince buster and rita lee versions but again, i don't think they're fine but not great. surely there's some amazing soul cover of this song i've yet to hear ?
don't bother me - i've tracked down an apparently obscure 1967 australian single by somebody named diane horder, and it's actually pretty good. but this is an odd and largely overlooked tune so was wondering if anybody had versions they liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJppiN0P_A
little child - i could live with this version by sandro y los de fuego, actually i think it's very good, but wonder if there isn't something more appealing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vYCXUlKRA
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
well, my thoughts might not be trustworthy because i went with moon martin and prince buster
having said that i went with gregory phillips' joe meek-style cover of "don't bother me" and jackie lynton's take on "little child"
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
thanks Kate.
incidentally i've taken upon myself to join you in the search for a suitable "what goes on" cover, and if i ever find one i like (or think is interesting) i'll be sure to post it here.
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
oh, i found one, the charles river valley boys on their 1966 record "beatle country". nice bluegrass record. i'm basically done with the project to my satisfaction, although there certainly is room for improvement in some respects. the whole listing is up on my old blogspot blog.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
oh that's right, i remember you mentioning it another thread. yikes between that and misspelling emitt rhodes on the emitt rhodes thread i think i need to take a nap or something
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
yeah i could use a nice long nap myself
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
budo-- Either/Orchestra does a pretty tasty version of "Don't Bother Me" on their album "Afro-Cubism."
― SlimAndSlam, Monday, 20 July 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
i know it was mentioned upthread, but ramsey lewis' take on the white album deserves a mention. the album as a whole is kind of schmaltzy, but his 'cry baby cry' is definitely enshrined near the top of my mountain of smooth jazz greats. don't know if it was recorded while maurice white was still in the group, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's him on drums.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 20 July 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
sorry but it's a masterpiece and there's no need for qualifiers / name-calling
xp thanks slim
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
― SlimAndSlam
those scamps! totally escaped my notice, even though i love them.
had to check to see that it wasn't me who mentioned the ramsey lewis record upthread - i know i have gone to bat for it in very strong terms before (something along the lines of "There's one great LP inside the White Album, and it turns out to be this one"). Brilliant arranging work by Charles Stepney. Pretty sure Phil Upchurch is involved on this one as well.
here's the "without the beatles" collection of beatles covers i've compiled.
https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/04/without-beatles.html
this ray brown "good day sunshine" is ridiculously axelrodded-out. i love it, i can't believe i haven't heard it before. mind you i do also _really_ love roy redmond's take on it.
i also would like to point out that the folder i found it in also had an axelrod version of "for what it's worth" credit to lou reed. this is probably not the first time someone has confused lou reed with lou rawls but it's the first time i've seen it.
the one left that i have sort of cheated on is "good morning, good morning". haven't heard a version of that i dig.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
i think the flaming lips etc. version is cool but i can see why people might not like it
re: ramsey lewis, you made those comments on the "soul funk covers of beatles tunes" thread or whatever it's called. been digging through all the beatles covers threads today, there's also this which you might find interesting:
CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
that person picked this version, which i'd never heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQp2qKsPgI
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
yeah i used douglas as a source for my own explorations... i definitely know the "sgt. pepper knew my father" comp, there's two cuts from it in the project, which i'm not entirely happy with but there's no goddamn way i could say no either to sonic youth's magisterial "within you without you" or the fall's "a day in the life". in any case the triffids' version doesn't grab me, i just don't think the gated reverb works in its favor.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
how do you feel about the flaming lips version ?
or this for that matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JOBsR65QOA
"I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" is the only Lennon/McCartney song to hit #1 on the country charts
didn't know this !
v interesting + informative blog post all around
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
haha did _not_ realize shabaka and the ancestors had essayed it since i started my project, well, that's a fucking shoo-in, easy enough!
right now i'm working my way through an axelrod-helmed record of '60s pop hits by the four king cousins that has another attempt at "good day sunshine" - the group vocals are often painfully stiff but then it goes into this bridge sort of inspired by the hocketed ending that's fairly psychedelic and mind-blowing. quality selection of material and fine production makes up for the basic lack of character in the vocals. the take on "god only knows" has elements that remind me a bit of the bioshock infinite arrangement...
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
stiff vocals redeemed by quality psychedelic production basically explains how i feel about his work on the electric prunes record
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
it's unfortunate because the prunes were a fucking great band before he came along... they killed it live
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
totally.
and self-correction: there are two axelrod / prunes records but i'm talking specifically about "mass in F minor" as i'm not as familiar with the other one.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
some other covers that aren't in my blog post but which i think are pretty nice:
Wat? Sanitär! do a pretty good minimal synth take on "everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey"... the Feelies' version is of course redoubtable
i do genuinely like benny goodman's take on "octopus's garden", even if i am also very partial to mike westbrook's reading. goodman's is more traditionally jovial. it also makes me happy to think that goodman's career encompassed both the work of bela bartok and ringo starr.
i'm also fond of mccoy tyner's take on "she's leaving home" - yeah, there's nothing terribly _exceptional_ about it, compared to l'infonie's mind-bending brass adaptation of the song, but there's just so much _class_ to tyner that it's hard to resist, even though nothing else on the comp it was on particularly appealed to me.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
i'm late but my thing went off because of the david axelrod mention. and yes: that ray brown cover is absolutely peak "big picture" axe. awesome awesome awesome.
also,
and self-correction: there are two axelrod / prunes records but i'm talking specifically about "mass in F minor" as i'm not as familiar with the other one.― budo jeru, Monday, July 20, 2020 5:54 PM (three days ago)
― budo jeru, Monday, July 20, 2020 5:54 PM (three days ago)
man, you gotta check out release of an oath soon! it's pretty much just an axelrod album in all but name. amazing stuff.
sorry for derail revive. here's lou rawls doing a nice axelrod-produced jazzy pop soul rendition of 'yesterday'.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
i did actually check it out right after i made that post and i feel it's about as good "mass" with more or less the same strengths and weaknesses. it's a fun listen for sure.
re: funky over-arranged studio productions of beatle-written tunes, here's johnny harris with "give peace a chance"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIES0wkkLA
there's also good (almost) instrumental version of "something" on the same record that is so very, very axelrod-esque and very worth checking out.
that lou rawls tune is killer, Austin
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
sorry i mean the song is definitely good and it's mostly an instrumental
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
and one last bit of west coast studio excellence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJBIzi4oPFcdon randi trio - tomorrow never knows
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle's 1987 Peel Session consisted of four Beatles covers, including 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' in German and possibly the only good version of Ringo's 'Don't Pass Me By'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7ekvSBLSo
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
i kinda like this czech version of "don't pass me by"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cljXAMj-3g
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
ahh man, revolver jazz! the things one forgets! a coworker way back had a copy that he dangled in front of me a time or two. completely forgot it existed not long after leaving that job.
i also remember buying the johnny harris album after much hype and anticipation (when it was first reissued in the early 2000s) and thinking it was, uhm, not that noteworthy. "what was the last allegedly classic album you got and were underwhelmed by?"
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
see, i'm just hearing the johnny harris record for the first time and i'm feeling like it's super quality, god kind of an andrew oldham orchestra feel to it. what's not to like?
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
well, this fucking rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 30 August 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link