Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out

and someone covered My Love. It sounded beautiful. any other great cover versions??

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Martin Luther (McCoy)

Dionne Ferris - "Blackbird"

Marvin Gaye - Yesterday

AlexdeParis said:

Eddie Hazel - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

never really heard a cover that remotely gets close to a beatle

Serious said:

I'm not a big Sananda fan, but this is pretty cool.

Serious said:

You beat me to it Martina!

Yes I love Sananda's cover of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away."
I would love to hear him cover "Oh Darling,"

I listened to Marvin Gaye do "Yesterday" and dug that too!

Here's another Beatle's cover by Sananda, it's him doing "If I Fell"
What a voice!

Almost forgot....

Here's another clip of Sananda doing a kick-ass cover of
The Beatles' "What You're Doing."

In the early 70s,Dionne Warwick did an excellent remake of "Yesterday" It's beautiful.My parents had the album.

what about "got to get you into my life" by earth, wind & fire?

while generally i don't like covers because they tend to be superfluous (mary j, i'm looking at you, "sweet thing"), i think they made this song their own.

i also like aretha's kind of off the wall version of "eleanor rigby". it was the first version i ever heard. after hearing her, the beatles sound downright tame, though i like their version, too.

but my all time favorite was mentioned - stevie's cover of "we can work it out". like ewf, he made it his own.

graecophilos said:

Ms.Stevens did a fierce version as well..



She did it for this album...



ALSO Jealous Guy(Lennon) by...

kibbles said:

I did a thread about it couple of months ago I think their version surpasses the original(which is SO stiff in comparison).

Harlepolis said:

Yeah,EW&F take that song to a whole new level!

Harlepolis said:

I hate their version, to me it just sounds blah...There is nothing special to theirs.

love Natalie Cole's version of "LSD"

shorttrini said:

not even the opening horns ? i love how Maurice's vocal sounds like a trumpet but my uncle has your same opinion of this version as well...

EWF & Stevie, as mentioned before, have got to be my favorites.

graecophilos said:

i want to hold your hand-Lakeside
here comes the sun-george benson
hey jude-wilson pickett
come together-michael jackson

Twist & Shout--the Isley Bro...oh, wait...

diamondpearl1 said:

Nope. IMO, what makes the original sound so good is that it does not sound like the Beatles. It sounds more like a Paul solo project.EW&F version sounds like a poor attempt to cash in on both groups.

NDRU said:

Obviously Stevie's cover is the best but also McLemore Avenue by Booker T & The Mg's was a good album. Basically a re-working of Abbey Road complete with a cover featuring the band crossing the road outside Stax Studios!

pacey68 said:

*scratches chin*

I need to check out
both Abbey Road & this here

I'm a little bit shocked Richie Havens didn't show up on here. He's done quite a few (I think), but his "Here Comes the Sun" is pretty amazing and one of the best Beatles covers out there. Also, Sdldawn said nobody beats the Beatles doing their songs. I strongly disagree (but also not a Beatlesfile). I find that there are a lot of covers out there that make their original versions seems really flat musically yet it they often showcases their great lyrics.