best beatles covers. ever.

sorry i mean the song is definitely good and it's mostly an instrumental

and one last bit of west coast studio excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJBIzi4oPFc
don randi trio - tomorrow never knows

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

i kinda like this czech version of "don't pass me by"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cljXAMj-3g

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?"

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?

well, this fucking rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s

nice!

Junior Parker's version of Tomorrow Never Knows has been mentioned above, but his version of Taxman is also spine-tingling.

Lemmy Kilmister·John 5·Eric Singer - back in the ussr

(nice hill to die on)

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, October 9, 2018 3:08 PM

nearly four years later and i've finally followed through—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKc4TTF8J4

ray brown — "good day sunshine" (1969)

album info.

one of the best arrangements axelrod ever did.

this set of covers by various soul and reggae versions hits the spot.

that said, i always select the 4hero mixtape version.

https://www.discogs.com/release/1343098-Various-We-Can-Work-It-Out-Covers-Cookies-Of-Lennon-McCartney-The-Beatles

that ray brown version is so good!

one of the best arrangements axelrod ever did.

bloody hell, i had no idea re this album.
i guess there are no digital options ?

i've never heard the whole album.

i ripped that from this compilation. it's been one of my holy grails for a while. cheap copies on discogs, but i have not a turntable anymore.

sorry for derailing thread. sadlol.

It's been mentioned a couple times upthread but I'll third or fourth the recommendations for Ramsey Lewis's Mother Nature's Son, which has some really exceptional arrangements.

doh : i have that Axe comp.
would love to hear the rest of that album of course.

this is the only other song i've found. supercheese. i've heard it's a really bad album besides the beatles cover. axelrod did work on some other very schmaltzy records around the same time (some of which inevitably have another beatles cover or two).

fair enough.
makes me glad to have ripped my skinny promo cd-r of the anthology comp before it got too wrecked.
i got it years before i realised who/why/where etc ...

all of which reminds me ..

post beatles vs library brilliance

https://www.discogs.com/master/1710161-The-Larry-Page-Orchestra-And-Chorus-John-Paul-George-Ringo

jimmy ponder - while my guitar gently weeps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHqbfCIklw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqVioiDldc

Cathy Berberian - Ticket to Ride

(For those that may now know, she was a mezzo-soprano who specialized in contemporary music and a composer. She was also married to Luciano Berio who several works for her.)

Bluegrass covers of I've Just Seen a Face there are many. Ones which also incorporate hiccuping reels into the middle and end there is but one. Good harmonic invention vocally too.

Look I just like this stuff okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sc3RU6Hsv0

The Dillards did "I've Just Seen a Face" back in 1968, I assume that was the first one.

This one builds up a nice head of steam.

Doug Parkinson In Focus - Dear Prudence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a51r1wjaU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esi7GO6VXU4

The Dillards did "I've Just Seen a Face" back in 1968, I assume that was the first one.

I believe it originated with the Charles River Valley Boys in 1966, who used their version as the springboard for a whole album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatle_Country

Ah right, good stuff!

I wouldn't say it's one of the best ever but at least it's different. Zeus B. Held, "The Fool on the Hill"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-fSjhmDAs

was this linked somewhere on ilx? some of it it fun/eerie:

https://hallelujahthehills.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-beatles-as-channeled-in-1958-by-the-echo-lake-home-for-the-potentially-clairvoyant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Sqdey1c2s