Harry Nilsson - You Can’t Do That
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjIppHJ7vziAhUjoVwKHU1kBsgQ3ywwAHoECAwQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUe0Mf7_EHk8&usg=AOvVaw1uf2MVo9k7wlTXMOasQxR9
Mary McCaslin - Things We Said Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJW69RFXTgY
Ricky Lee Jones - For No One For No One
Both excellent renditions.
The Strolling Bones - I Wanna Be Your Man.
The Stones’ second single, transforming Ringo’s rather tame version into something completely different.
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Here Comes The Sun - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel amongst many, many others.
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Golden Slumbers covered by Dua Lipa on her Acoustic EP. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand.
I never liked Joe Cocker’s version of Help, but I did like Deep Purple’s., on their first album Shades of Deep Purple. Deep Purple also did what, to my ears, was a good rendition of We can work it out on their second album, The Book of Taliesyn.
Other covers that I thought added something are Marmalade’s Obla Di, and possibly Siouxie & the Banshees’ Dear Prudence
I couldn’t find it on YouTube, you may be luckier. Ben Sidran does a fantastic version of Come Together on the album Live from Montreux.
Here’s another great version:
This is quite good by Emmanuel Santarromana
and a whole album worth too! (couple of quid pre-owned via Amazon)
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There is of course only one - Peter Sellers: It’s been a hard day’s night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLongUBPm5Y
Well two actually - 801: Tomorrow Never Knows
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Oh man …and live they are absolutely killin’ when they play that song . check the breaks at the 4.29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLLabPCm3pI&loop=0
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Musica Nuda - Blackbird
Musica Nuda - Eleanor Rigby
At the risk of reopening a discussion that ran its course a few months ago, Michael Jackson did a great version of Come Together.
In a very different style, Brad Mehldau gets some lovely ideas out of Blackbird.
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Billy Bragg’s version of She’s Leaving Home is superb. It really brings out the sadness of the song in a way that the original perhaps doesn’t.
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