Soul/Funk/R&B Bands and their Beatles covers: S/D

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S: Wilson Pickett and the Templations versions of "Hey Jude"
D: every version of "Yesterday"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Templations?! wtf

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

S: Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

John Klemmer - Hey Jude = massive search (this is more jazz i suppose)

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Arghhhhhhhhh!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Dunno whether you call them soul/funk/R&B, but Scritti Politti did a great version of "She's a Woman", originally one of Paul's lesser songs, which became a great reggae pop song when covered by Green.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Actually the Eddie Hazel cover of I Want You (She's So Heavy) is brilliant.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

haha I was just gonna nominate that

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Does Earth, Wind & Fire's version of Got To Get You Into My Life count? That's rather disco. That and the Wilson Pickett Hey Dude are the only two I can think of that don't seem to be real lows on the albums they're on. I have stacks of tunes in this category!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

I look forward to the posthumous release of Wilson Pickett's Kula Shaker covers album.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Ray Charles' version of Elennor Rigby

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Search:

The Five Stairsteps' version of "Dear Prudence." I've never seen it on an American best of for the 'Steps, but it was included on a collection from the Sequel label in the UK. It's a killer.

― James, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)

I second Stevie Wonder's take on "We Can Work It Out." Al Green's version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is a lot of fun. I love the intro bit ("Shut up, Al Green!).

― D. Bachyrycz, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Al Green otm.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

stevie wonder can work it out, thirded.

also search:

the jam, "start!"
chemical brothers, "setting sun"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

aretha's "eleanor rigby"

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Billy Ocean's "The Long and Winding Road"

― uccellaccio (uccellaccio), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Stevie's version of "We Can Work It Out" fourthed! And what about Joe Cocker's version of "With A Little Help From My Friends"?

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Brothers Johnson "Come Together"

― Particle Ranger (particle ranger), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Ella Fitzgerald's "Got To Get You Into My Life" (surprisingly funky). In a similar jazzy-funk vein, Grant Green's "Day In The Life" and "Something" by Charles Earland.

seconding Wilson Picket's Hey Jude and Aretha's Eleanor Rigby.

ooh, just remembered "Hey Jude" by King Curtis - one of my favourite Beatles covers.

― bracestower, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Aretha cut a nice version of "Let It Be," too.

― James, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

also:

"Drive My Car" by Black Heat
"Day Tripper" by Ramsey Lewis
"Come Together" by The Meters
"Norwegian Wood" by Hugh Masekela (more jazzy then soul though)

Quincy Jones did a great Beatles cover, but without the album in front of me I can't remember if it was "We Can Work It Out" or "Ticket To Ride".

― bracestower, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

A whole album for ya:

ihttp://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/B/bookerT_mclf.jpg

... that's Booker T & the MG's "McLemore Avenue" (never heard ittho)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Bobby Womack - And I Love Her

(Quite nice)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

ah...that reminds me - "Michelle" and "Lady Madonna" by Booker T & The MGs (on "The Booker T Set")

― bracestower, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I just got the Booker T. Set recently, but my record player is busted, so I haven't listened to it yet. Has anyone heard McLemore Avenue?

I'm sure they haven't been mentioned due to obviousness, but Otis Redding's cover versions ("Day Tripper" and "A Hard Day's Night") are pretty great too, especially live.

This thread is just crying out for some YSIs.

― D. Bachyrycz, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

"Come Together" is so obviously Stax/Volt-influenced I am kind of surprised there haven't been more R&B covers of it.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

""Come Together" is so obviously Stax/Volt-influenced I am kind of surprised there haven't been more R&B covers of it."

Ike and Tina covered that one quite well. You're right - I don't know of any others r/b versions. The only other cover I know of is Aerosmith's.

― James, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

What about the Chuck Berry version? Oh wait.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Jazz cover of a Beatles solo track that probably belongs here:
S: "Cold Turkey," by Freddie Hubbard

― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2010 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Bill Withers' "Let It Be" turns it into the gospel rave-up it always wanted to be.

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

― condaleeza spice (The Reverend), Monday, 4 January 2010 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

This Stax album is worth seeking out:

http://blackgrooves.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/stax.jpg

― Darin, Monday, 4 January 2010 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

David Porter's cover of "Help!" is really nice.

― Darin, Monday, 4 January 2010 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEC_97p3C0k

the guy still has it. but the 1971 versions show him at his furious best.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYw12i2gR1w

― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

on this comp called "Memphis 60" Wee Willie Walker does "Ticket to Ride." Goldwax '67. def one of the worst such covers in history, since they forget the big chord change going into the chorus and that fucks up the whole thing. Esther Phillips did "And I Love Him" well, Esther Phillips could do anything anyway.

― ebbjunior, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXui4YUQ9HA

― Mr. Big STFU (ojo), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

The Impressions "Fool On The Hill"

as mentioned upthread, Isaac Hayes "Something"

― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 07:21 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwtVkoim2zg

Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo - Rocky Raccoon(1969)

― Goldfoot, Sunday, 28 February 2010 10:21 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YKfu5sD24&feature=kp

― Darin, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:08 (twelve years ago)

Junior Parker's cover of Tomorrow Never Knows:

http://youtu.be/z1YKfu5sD24

― Darin, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)

did I miss his version of Taxman being noted upthread??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjPd28KegM

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:36 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0T-6r91CQ

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 09:49 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Well, yeah, these songs.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 December 2019 06:07 (six years ago)

some good picks here (robert palmer's "not a second time" and james brown's "something" are good deep picks) - i didn't realize dylan had done "things we said today", it's a good fit for old dylan

anyway, this is, uh, kind of an interest of mine (still looking for a version of "what goes on", but that's the only one left); i won't rehash the whole list here, but i will point out that the first post in this thread is WRONG w/r/t "yesterday", where PP Arnold's is one of the only good covers, and i will also point out that ray charles' version of "the long and winding road" is what the song was obviously intended to be all along and it's a source of continuing confusion to me that nobody seems to know it exists

― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:29 (six years ago)

Junior Parker's cover of Tomorrow Never Knows:
http://youtu.be/z1YKfu5sD24

want to give an extra shoutout to this, bc it is fucking incredible

― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:47 (six years ago)

actually i bet dylan could do a really good version of "what goes on", even though Nobody Sings Ringo Like Ringo

― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:52 (six years ago)

big fan of the Ramsey Lewis LP of White Album covers Mother Nature's Son, have dropped his version of "Cry Baby Cry" into a few DJ sets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Apo8XLmPs8

― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:53 (six years ago)

oh damn!

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:54 (six years ago)

my one-liner on that is "People keep saying there's one good albums inside the White Album - turns out it's this one"

anyway yeah charles stepney was a fucking genius and i hope a recording of "Cohesion" turns up at some point

― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Friday, 27 December 2019 16:39 (six years ago)

was just listening to this when i saw this thread bumped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfXOJhMAx9g
michael white - "get back"

not sure how i feel about it, it's interesting at least, and the coincidence compels me to post

rush otm re: charles stepney

― budo jeru, Friday, 27 December 2019 17:02 (six years ago)

four years pass...

D: every version of "Yesterday"
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier),

i am currently reeling from smokey robinson and the miracles' version of yesterday. the wrings all the bittersweetness from the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8paDZ7obMMU

― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 14:56 (two years ago)

The 5th Dimension's cover of "Ticket to the Ride" almost ruins the otherwise brilliant "Magic Garden" album.

― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:06 (two years ago)

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