I fully realize that a compilation of Beatles covers is more than a bit obvious, but I just happened to listen to two truly inspired covers within days of each others a couple of months back: Wendell Stuart and the Downbeaters' "Hey Jude" and Bill Withers "Let it Be". Hence, I just had to do Brazilian/Reggae and Soul Beatles covers compilations. There's not quite as many obscurities - especially with respect to the soul covers- as I usually like to include in my cover comps (and I do know that Let 'Em In was not a Beatles song), but, hopefully, folks will like them.
Brazilian and Reggae Covers
| Help | Caetano Veloso |
| Minha Vida (In My Life) | Rita Lee |
| And I Love Her | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires |
| Here Comes The Sun | Peter Tosh |
| With A Little Help From My Friends | Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 |
| Ob La Di Ob La Da | Ken Lazarus |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (feat. Junior Jazz) | Easy Star All-Stars |
| Lady Madonna | Rogrio Duprat |
| You Won't See Me | Ernie Smith |
| The Fool On The Hill | Gal Costa |
| Come Together | The Israelites |
| Isn't It A Pity | Nicky Thomas |
| Blackbird Singing | Rosalyn Sweat & The Paragons |
| Norwegian wood | Milton Nascimento |
| Don't Let Me Down | Charlotte Dada |
| Jude | Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters |
| I Want To Hold Your Hand | Al Green |
| We Can Work It Out | Stevie Wonder |
| Let 'Em In | Billy Paul |
| Good Day Sunshine | Roy Redmond |
| Eleanor Rigby | Aretha Franklin |
| Why Don't We Do It In The Road? | Lowell Fulsom |
| A Hard Day's Night | The Bar-Kays |
| I Want You | Eddie Hazel |
| Drive My Car | Black Heat |
| Got To Get You Into My Life | Chris Clark |
| Day Tripper | Otis Redding |
| Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey | Fats Domino |
| Something | Isaac Hayes |
| My Sweet Lord | Edwin Starr |
| Yesterday | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles |
| Let It Be | Bill Withers |
5 comments:
Yowza!
In my eyes (ears?) you can never go too far wrong by including any Beatles stuff in a comp and these are two little beauties you've compiled for us. And slightly off the usual, well-worn track too, which doesn't hurt at all. Thanks!
@1001 songs and dogbreath,
Quite welcome and hope you like them. I was a little surprised there wasn't more in the way of late 60s Brazilian psychedelic covers (though there were a few I didn't include), but maybe I was looking in the wrong corners of record stores, internet, etc.
Wow, more for my collection! Thank you for the further education.
@apetalk,
Quite welcome. Always nice to hear Beatles songs, right? :)
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