best beatles covers. ever.

HS

Firewater attempted "Hey Bulldog," but sorta failed, though I love them.

The Wedding Present did a reasonably competent version of "It's Getting Better."

No one has ever done a decent version of "Helter Skelter," `cept maybe Siouxsie

I used to quite like the Mission's rendering of "Tomorrow Never Knows," but time has not been kind to it.

i heard this for the first time yesterday (thanks, YSI thread!) and it is fucking awesome. i was disappointed by the fall's "day in the life".

Ooh...seconded! And how could I have forgotten that Laibach opus?!?!

How on earth is this possible?

Speaking of Hendrix, I've always liked his version of "Day Tripper" from the Radio One sessions.

isnt there some sort of Rubber soul tribute coming out? I know Ted Leo is supposed to play a cover of "Im looking through you" which should be incredible

comes out october 11th

OTM@!&!&

ooh!

their cover of "long long long" is sublime. i should have mentioned this already.

And an unknown Japanese guy savaging Eleanor Rigby.
http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=268VIVWTGLD761S9XSGPXA4A9B

Sorry, have to disagree. I found that album unlistenable, except the ones she sang in Portuguese were okay.

I'll go for "Tomorrow Never Knows" by Junior Parker.

A Hard Day's Night - The Supremes
Eleanor Rigby - The Four Tops
We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
Hey Jude - The Temptations
Yesterday - Marvin Gaye
The Long and Winding Road - Diana Ross
Come Together - The Supremes
She's Leaving Home - Syreeta
You Can't Do That - The Supremes
Fool On The Hill - The Four Tops
Michelle - The Four Tops
And I Love Her - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Something - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Let It Be - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Imagine - Diana Ross
My Love - Jr. Walker
My Sweet Lord - Edwinn Starr

Beach Boys doing "Hide Your Love Away." Ian Gomm "You Can't Do That" (leaves out the bridge).

Booker T. "Hard Day's Night." Jr. Parker does, as is mentioned earlier, "Tomorrow Never Knows," also "Lady Madonna." And Lowell Fulson does "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."

For that matter, I like Earth, Wind & Fire's "Got to Get You Into My Life." Anne Murray "You Won't See Me."

hang on. pass the limewire and hold her steady ...

Although the one I find in my head most often is Frank Sidebottom's "Flying," to which he adds lyrics:

We are the Beatles
There are four of us
Direct from Liverpool
We came here on the bus
John Paul George and Ringo, John Paul George and Ringo, that is uuuuuuus

George plays electric guitar
Ringo has loads of rings
John plays another guitar
And Paul McCartney sings
And then one day they broke up and Paul McCartney formed Wings
Oh yes he did, he really did

Tom Jones covering Hey Jude
Sonny & Cher covering Something
Nancy Sinatra covering Day Tripper

All great and all from The Good, The Bad, and The Beatles.

haha

"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" - William Shatner

I think (equally horrible, but not as entertaning as Bill Shatner)
Andy Williams did a Beatles song or two also, can't remember

I love all versions by Sgt. Pepper for classical guitar by Branimir Krstic, especially my best song ever "A day in the life".

Souxsie and the Banshee's "Helter Skelter" shits all over the weak-ass Motely Crue version.

Also love Brasil 66's samba-ized cover of "Day Tripper."

also, Edu Lobo, "Hey Jude"...Ted Nugent, "I Want To Tell You"...Harvey Averne, "THe Word"...The Jam, "Taxman"...(I mean, "Start!")

ihttp://comics.heritageauctions.com/highlights/beatles/todayandyesterday.jpg

everything is better with clarinet!

Other than that, I generally have a problem with Beatles cover versions. Simply because the originals are too good.

Daniel Ash - "Day Tripper"

Stevie Wonder's version of "We Can Work It Out" runs circles around the original, and I don't say that lightly.

Werd.

I liked David Cook's (American Idol 7) version of Day Tripper. He might have jacked that from someone else but I don't care.

It has to be Money by the Flying Lizards surely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iQZiVD_zA

I've always liked Coroner's version of "She's So Heavy" quite a bit.

Just heard for the first time (my bad) Bill Withers' version of "Let It Be"; it's awesomely beautiful. Ramsey Lewis' LP of Beatles covers--Mother Nature's Son--is wonderful, too.

David Grisman's band has done a pretty moving instrumental version, all mandolined-up and shit, of "Because".

Lol Coxhill's take on "I'm The Walrus" is also great.

Arcwelder did a great version of "I Am The Walrus," superfast, stripped-down, with no attempts at mimicking the 'cellos or tape effects. Worked amazingly (and surprisingly) well.

So then what, if any, are the few cases in which the cover version actually surpasses the Beatles original?

This was mentioned upthread as part of the Motown Beatles covers album, and it warrants more attention (BSJ, I think it surpasses the original):

Let It Be - Gladys Knight & The Pips

Gladys gave one of her absolute best performances on that. (I also welled up during the gospelly version of "Let It Be" in Across the Universe.)

I haven't heard a lot of those, but the original versions of those are so great, I don't see how ALL of them could surpass.. Maybe a few do..

What bothers me about this thread is that it's supposed to be a list of the "best beatles covers. ever." and instead people are just listing random cover versions..

Stevie Wonder seems to have been mentioned here a lot.. it's hard to say which version I like better, because the Beatles version is great for so many reasons (one of the true Lennon/McCartney penned songs, John's bridge w/ changing time signature, and the harmonium!!!) ... however Stevie Wonder's version simply killed it.

I also still think The Cyrkle's "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" may surpass the original. It helped me to better appreciate the original version. There's changing key signatures constantly throughout the song, which somehow works in this case.

Oh my mistake, I thought you were suggesting all of those Motown covers were better.. Yeah the Gladys Knight version is lovely.

the Hendrix Sgt Pepper
runner-up: the Grateful Dead's Rain

Still amazed that Oasis haven't covered rain. It would have been perfect for them, as opposed to "I Am The Walrus" which doesn't fit with their style at all.

What would be the point of covering "Rain"? It's exactly Oasis.

(I know, answers on a postcard etc)

I am surprised Jeff Buckley's 'A Day in the Life' hasn't been mentioned. That, for my money, is the best Beatles cover by quite a distance and one of only a handful to have any musical merit.

they created rock and roll.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R2XR2Q6WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Are there any non-punk/metal/indie covers of "Helter Skelter"? The more exotic or easy listening the better, but any unusual genre would do I guess.

today i'd like to remember michael jackson's absolutely wicked cover of "come together". being a punk rock highschooler i wasn't really much into michael back then, but hearing this in shop class made me stop and ask someone who in the hell doing this cool-ass beatles cover. learning it was mj totally made me stop and reconsider my previously held views on the dude...

i might suggest we leave the heated debate on the whole michael/paul/beatles catalog thing until a respectful interval had passed, and maybe today just ponder why, out of all the beatles tracks he coulda used FOR FREE - yesterday, hey jude, a day in the life etc (and probably made a gazillion dollars offa, almost guaranteed) he decided to just record this one fairly obscure, strange, and edgy beatles tune, and do it in this cool, but not very radio-friendly, glamrockfunk style?

Do get ahold of yourself. "Come Together" is hardly "fairly obscure." And he took a giant dump on it. Let's not pretend otherwise.

it's pretty straight, but the five stairsteps doing dear prudence is great

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

This song is kind of a template for non-ballad post-Bad MJ.

Come Together = obscure??

I like Elliott Smith's very faithful rendering of "Because," myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6L05WHTgUQ

Joe Cocker's "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is still the best for me, and I don't even really like Joe Cocker all that much.

Do get ahold of yourself. "Come Together" is hardly "fairly obscure." And he took a giant dump on it. Let's not pretend otherwise.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, June 26, 2009 9:52 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with this. That version is paint-peelingly awful. I realize the guy croaked yesterday, but that doesnt mean you can sugar-coat how bad this thing is.

"i might suggest we leave the heated debate on the whole michael/paul/beatles catalog thing until a respectful interval had passed"

Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3J_chod0eM

""i might suggest we leave the heated debate on the whole michael/paul/beatles catalog thing until a respectful interval had passed"

Why?"

probably cause then i'll have to shit talk michael a bit and i don't really want to today, i guess. you guys really don't like his version of come together? i think it's great, horses for courses i guess. and i sort of meant "obscure" as in compared to covers he might have done, like something anthemic like "with a little help from my friends" or "she loves you" or something. and "obscure" as a michael jackson song possibly could be in 198whatever - i mean, i didn't own the album myself, and i managed to avoid hearing it for maybe a year, they just didn't play it on the radio like they did billie jean or thriller or say say say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0emW4m63GeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHuIQn-eJM

best one yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIOdvXE7kbI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

La Lupe - Yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIjoBGB1q0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOBuz3ezWjA

Wouldn't know where to begin here. I've been collecting Beatles cover versions for five-plus years; I had to move them all to the external hard drive, so I can't use the media library to get an exact count, but I estimate I've got somewhere between 3,500-4,000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUf8m4fMiw

Thanks! Just tracked it down, also his cover of "Day Tripper."

What, no votes for Elton John - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

― Trevor Wood, Thursday, May 4, 2006 8:19 AM Bookmark

Have been getting into this lately and might just give it the nod over the Beatles version - - the verses are kind of weedy in the Elton but I loooooove the extended, multitracked repetition of the chorus - it seems much more psychedelic and frankly more joyous than the Beatles version, like you really do go on this sonic journey with Lucy and it's really great, which actually never happens in the original.

Cilla Black - love of the loved
Lili Ivanova - kakto onzi den (the night before)

Always had a soft spot for this, the best Beatles cover that sounded like Husker Du:

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

Funny how The Beatles' "What goes on" and the Velvets' are two different songs, but they share a couple of lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE33l8JrFlQ

Nilsson's cover of "You Can't Do That" is awesome

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/exoticbeatles.jpg?t=1306330475

Also have to give it up for Desmond Dekker & Come Together. Get heavy!

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

Really like George Harrison's '74 version of 'In My Life' from his US tour:

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

this is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLo5nzK0ayU

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.

Chilling with this today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLBeWa70ww

nice!

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

haha that's hilarious

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.

Cecilia - Dear Prudence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pTc_yvWgg

Love Cecilia, never heard that one! Must be an album-only track. She died at 27, sadly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVMuYfa0EA

wee willie walker - ticket to ride

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.

Can't stop wondering why Cecilia is singing it "Ha, Prudence"

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

Love Cecilia, never heard that one! Must be an album-only track. She died at 27, sadly.

― 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.

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

Marcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me Down

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

Jessica Mitford - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

here's a bulgarian ye-ye cover of "the night before"

https://youtu.be/CNbgnq9VkNw

And Lowell Fulson does "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."

he sure does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9RNPx2_oA

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

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"

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.

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.

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

yeah i could use a nice long nap myself

budo-- Either/Orchestra does a pretty tasty version of "Don't Bother Me" on their album "Afro-Cubism."

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.

sorry but it's a masterpiece and there's no need for qualifiers / name-calling

xp thanks slim

budo-- Either/Orchestra does a pretty tasty version of "Don't Bother Me" on their album "Afro-Cubism."

― 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.

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

that person picked this version, which i'd never heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQp2qKsPgI

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.

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

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...

stiff vocals redeemed by quality psychedelic production basically explains how i feel about his work on the electric prunes record

it's unfortunate because the prunes were a fucking great band before he came along... they killed it live

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.

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.

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)

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'.

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

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