Soul On Beatles
Soul On Beatles
This article is meant to provide a list of cover versions of Beatles' songs performed merely by black soul and jazz artists not reggae.
A Day In The Life
Grant Green – Green Is Beautiful – Lp Blue Note – 1970 (instrumental)
Otis Blackwell -
Chocolate Snow –
Tok Tok Tok -
A Hard Day’s Night
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – single (unissued) Roulette – 1964
The Supremes – A Bit Of Liverpool – Lp Motown 623 - 1964
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella In Hamburg – Lp Verve 711 027 – 1965
Billy Preston – Wildest Organ In Town – Lp Capitol 2532 - 1966
Otis Redding – Live At The Whiskey A Go Go – Lp Fantasy/Stax – 1968
The Unifics - Sittin' in at the Court of Love – Lp Kapp KS-3582 - 1968
Dionne Warwick – Soulful – Lp Scepter SPS573 – 1969
Duke Errol & his Lords Instant Funk – Instant Funk V – Lp RCA 13227- 1983 René Marie – Ray Nance – Body And Soul - Lp
Across The Universe
Indigenous Space People - Future Vision Fv001
All I've Got To Do
All My Loving
Little John Pattison – single - Give-A-Disc Lyn-510 – 1964
All You Need Is Love
The 5th Dimension – Live! – Lp Bell 9000 – 1971 Lynden David Hall – Love Actually OST - 2003
Larry D – The House Jacks –
And I Love Her
Roy Hamilton - single - RCA 8705 - 1965 Esther Phillips – And I Love Him – Lp Atlantic SD 8102 - 1965 The Vibrations – single - Okeh 7257 – 1966 Grady Tate – single Skye 458 – 1968 Friends Of Distinction – Grazin’ – Lp Rca-Victor 4149 – 1969 The Miracles – What Love Has…Joined Together – Lp Tamla TS301 – 1970 The Detroit Emeralds – single - Janus 61460120 – 1971 Bobby Womack – Understanding – Lp Right Stuff #29144 – 1972 A.C. Caldwell - single - Rim R 2029 - 1973 Sarah Vaughan – Songs Of The Beatles – Lp Atlantic SD 16037 – 1981 Alton Ellis – And I Love Her – Lp Island 12wip6748 – 1981 (reggae) Holmes Brothers – Promised Land – Cd Rounded 2142 - 1997 Terry Callier – Lookin’ Out – Lp Mr. Bongo 034 –
Brothaz By Choice -
And Your Bird Can Sing
Another Girl
Madeline Bell (?) – single – RCA Victor - 1973
Any Time At All
Ask Me Why
Baby's In Black
Baby You're A Rich Man
Back In The U.S.S.R.
Chubby Checker – single - Buddah 100 – 1969 Ramsey Lewis – Mother Nature’s Son – Lp Cadet 821 – 1969 (instrumental) Jimmy Powell & The Dimensions -
Because
Stanley Jordan – Standards Vol. 1 – Lp Blue Note bt85130 – 1986 (instrumental)
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Birthday
Blue Jay Way
Blackbird
Sisters Love – single - A&M MS59383 – 1970 Billy Preston - single - A&M 1411 – 1972 Sarah Vaughan – Songs Of The Beatles – Lp Atlantic SD 16037 – 1981 Terry Lyne Carrington -
Can’t Buy Me Love
Ella Fitzgerald – single Verve VS 519 – 1964 The Supremes – A Bit Of Liverpool – Lp Motown 623 - 1964 Mary Wells – Love Songs To The Beatles – Lp 20th Century Fox TFM/TFS-3178 – 1965
Come Together
Mary Wells – Come Together – Lp Jubilee – 1969 (released 1993) Ben E. King – Rough Edges – Lp - 1970 Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black? – Lp Twinight 1002 - 1970 Diana Ross - Everything Is Everything – Lp Motown 11178 - 1970 Ike & Tina Turner - single - Minit 32087 – 1970 The Phoenix Authority - Blood, Sweat & Brass - Mainstream MRL-303 – 1970 (instrumental) Holland, Dozier, Holland – The Picture Never Changes – Lp Hollang Holg 307 - 1972 Harrison Kennedy – single - Invictus 9119 – 1972 Hopeton Lewis – single - Dynamic Dyn436 – 1972 (reggae) Ice Man’s Band – single Mercury MELP-22 – 1972 Gladys Knight & The Pips - A Little Knight Music – Lp - 1975 The Meters – Kickback – Lp Sundazed 5081 – 1975/76 Brothers Johnson - Look Out For #1 – 1976 Liquid Pleasure – single - MIDSONG MS57856 – 1977 Sarah Vaughan – Songs Of The Beatles – Lp Atlantic SD 16037 – 1981 Isley Brothers – single - WB 4070 - 1989 Shalamar – single - Solar Zas 4009 – 1991
Counter Points – single – Ja-Wess – late 60s Hot City Bump Band – Come Together – Lp Wizard 207 – 1975 Mike Curb Congragation – Come Together – Lp Coburt 1002 – 1970
Cry Baby Cry
Professor Longhair – single - Specialty sp 749 ex The Ronettes ?
Day Tripper
J.J. Barnes - single - Ric-Tic 115 – 1966 Odell Brown & The Organ-izers – Raising The Roof – Lp Cadet – 1966 (instrumental) Otis Redding – EP - Stax 1008 - 1966 Vontastics - single - St.Lawrence 1014 - 1966 Tamiko Jones with Herbie Mann - A Mann & A Woman – Lp Atlantic 8141 - 1967 Geno Washington - Hipsters, Flipsters,… - 1967 Big Dee Irwin & Mamie Galore - single - Imperial 66359 - 1969 Jimi Hendrix with Noel Redding – single - Quality 1814 – 197?
Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones – single – Atlantic 2392 Glass Museum – Day Tripper – AGM 1030 Ramsey Lewis – (instrumental)
Dear Prudence
5 Stairsteps - single - Buddah 165 - 1970 [Hysear] Don Walker – Complete Expressions – Lp Brunswick LPBRUN754174 Graham Central Station – unissued Warner Bros track – 1976?
Dig A Pony
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Doctor Robert
Don’t Bother Me
Kendall Sisters Sound Experience
Don't Let Me Down
Ben E. King - Rough Edges – Lp Maxwell Ml-88001 – 1970 Donald Height – single - Jubilee 5671 ?? Phoebe Snow – It Look Like Snow – Lp Columbia 34387 - 1976 Marcia Griffiths – single – 1969-1974 (reggae) Trumains - single - Vigor 703 - Bobby Womack –
Baby Washington & The Hearts – single – Ace – 1970? Randy Crawford – Everything Must Change – Lp Warner – 1976 Lynn Long – single – Mercury 72454 Bobby Womack - Looking For Love Again – Lp EMD/Capitol 29968
Drive My Car
Black Heat - single Atlantic 10612 - 1975 Gary Toms Empire – single - Pickwick PIP 6509 – 1975
Eight Days A Week
Aretha Franklin - single - Atlantic 3200 – 1974
Eleanor Rigby
Richie Havens - Mixed Bag – Lp MGM SE-4698 - 1967 Diana Ross & The Supremes with The Temptations – T.C.B. – Lp Motown MS-682 - 1968 Ray Charles - A Portrait Of Ray – Lp ABC-Tangerine ABCS 625 - 1968 Big Maybelle - single - Rojac 121 – 1968 Gene Chandler - single - Brunswick 55413 – 1969 Four Tops – The Four Tops Now – Lp Motown MS-675 - 1969 Aretha Franklin - single - Atlantic 2683 - 1969 Bobby Taylor – Taylor Made Soul – Lp Gordy GLPS-942 - 1969 Jackie Wilson – Do Your Thing - Lp Brunswick BL-754154 - 1969 Kim Weston – single - People (probably unissued) - 1970 Crusaders – Scratch – Lp BTS 6010 – 1974 (jazz/instrumental) Side Effect - single - Elektra E-46637 - 1980 Soul Inheritors - single - JERHART 3021 – Goliath – ABC Paramount ??
Every Little Thing
Everybody's Got Something To Hide ( Except For Me and My Monkey )
Fats Domino – single – Reprise Rv 20205 – 1968 (or 1969)
Fixing A Hole
Little Joe Richie - Little Joe Sure Can Sing – Lp Brunswick BL-54135/BL-754135 – 1968
Fool On The Hill
Four Tops – The Four Tops Now – Lp Motown MS-675 - 1969 Shirley Bassey - single United Artists Up 35156 – 1970
For No One
For You Blue
From Me To You
Lou Gossett? – From Me To You - LP B.T. PUPPY 1013 - 1971 Stairsteps - single - Dark Horse 10005 - 1975 Keni Burke – single – Dark Horse DRC8474 - 1977
Get Back
Chris Clark - C.C. Rides Again – Lp [...] WS-801 – 1969 Shirley Scott – Shirley Scott & The New Saxes – Lp Atlantic – 1969 (instrumental) Deirdre Wilson Tabac – single – Jazzman - 1970 Doris Troy – single Apple 1824 - 1970 The Phoenix Authority - Blood, Sweat & Brass - Mainstream MRL-303 - 1970 Al Green - Green Is Blues – Lp Hi Shl 32055 - 1972 Ike & Tina Turner - The World Of Ike & Tina live – Lp UA LA064-G2 - 1973 The Main Ingredient – 20th Century Masters / Tribute To The Beatles – 1998 Herculoids – single - Herculoids
Getting Better
Girl
Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight
David Morris (Carry That Weight) - single - Jamie 1415 George Benson – The Other Side Of Abbey Road – Lp - 1969 Carmen McRae (Carry That Weight) - single - Atlantic 2776 - 1970 Lou Rawls - Live At The Century Plaza – Lp MGM 4895 - 1973
Good Day Sunshine
Little Linda Divine (aka Linda Tillery) – single - Columbia 4-44954 – 1969
Good Night
Mabel Mercer
Got To Get You Into My Life
Chris Clark - Soul Sounds – 1967 Carmen Mcrae - single - Atlantic 2421 - 1967 Baby Dolls - single Hollywood 1111 – 1968? Four Tops - Soul Spin – Lp Motown Ms695 - 1969 Lou Rawls – Natural Man – Lp MGM Se4771 - 1971 Earth Wind & Fire - single CBS 6553 - 1978 Jeanette Baker - single - JD 1 - Cole Brothers - single - Jamie 1348 Ella Fitzgerald Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker -
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Hello Goodbye
Hello Little Girl
Help!
Clara Ward - single - Verve 10391 David Porter - Victim of the Joke? - 1971 Roy Meriwether - Popcorn and Soul - 1966 Four Tops - At The Top - 1966 The Crusaders - Vocal Album - 1979 Isaac Scott - Big Time Blues Man – 1983
Charlie Whitehead – ?? Herb Johnson - ??
Helter Skelter
Here Comes The Sun
Richie Havens - single/Alarm Clock - 1971 Charles Wright – Rhythm & Poetry – LP Warner - 1972 Smokey Roberts Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun - 1971 George Benson – The Other Side Of Abbey Road – Lp - 1969 Womack & Womack - Radio M.U.S.C. Man - 1985 Lou Rawls
Here, There and Everywhere
Little Anthony & The Imperials – 1969 ?? Gloria Lynne – Here There & Everywhere – Lp Fontana 67577 Carmen McRae
Hey Bulldog
Hey Jude
Wilson Pickett - single - Atlantic 2591 - 1968 Dennis Coffey – Hair & Thangs - Maverick MAS-7002 - 1969 Ella Fitzgerald – Live In San Francisco – MPS/Jazzclub – 1969 O.C. Smith – For Once In My Life – Lp CBS 63544 - 1969 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Four In Blue – Lp Tamla TS297 - 1969 Steel Image – single – Fontana 1678 - 1969 Supremes – Cream Of The Crop – Lp Motown STML11137 - 1969 Temptations - Puzzle People – Lp Tamla TML 11133 - 1969 Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers – Doin’ What We Wanna – Lp Atlantic – 1970 Overton Berry Trio - Live at the Double Tree Inn Tukwila, WA. - 1970 Johnny Canales feat. TJ Perry - single - Guti 102 The Brothers Johnson - All This and World War II - 1976 Super Eagles – Senegambian Sensation - RETRO17CD
I Call Your Name
Byrd Pressley - single - Voor 3902
I Saw Her Standing There
Phil Flowers single Dot 17154 1968 Little Richard The "Rill" Thing 1970
I Should Have Known Better
Mary Wells - single 20th C. Fox 6119 - 1965 Sly & Bobbie 60s, '70s + '80s = Taxi 1981
I Wanna Be Your Man
Bobby Moore & Rhythm Aces - single - Checker 1193
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Al Green – single – 1969 (Lp Cover Me Green (HI 107) Lakeside –single - Solar 48001 Supremes Nancy Butts – single – Flaming Arrow 19
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Anthony Wilson Trio George Benson – The Other Side Of Abbey Road – CTI - 1969 Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames & Guitar Thangs – Lp Warner – 1973 Sarah Vaughan
I’m A Loser
The Staple Singers (?) - single Stax 0093 - 1971
I've Got A Feeling
The Diplomats? single Wand 1965 Four Tops? Single Motown 1104 1967 Arthur Conley? More Sweet Soul 1969
If I Fell
Reparata & The Delrons Whenever a Teenager Cries 1993
In My Life
Jerry Butler & Patti Austin - single CTI 7 - 1973 Roni Hill - single Roulette 7211 - 1977 Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo Lena & Gabor
Jealous Guy
Donny Hathaway 1972
Lady Madonna
Fats Domino – single – Reprise 0763 – 1968 Richie Havens - 1969 Junior Parker - single - CAPITOL 2951 – 1970 Swamp Dogg - 1972
Let It Be
Aretha Franklin - single - Atlantic 2751 - 1970 Frank Motley – Let It Be – Lp Paragon ALS 323 - 1970 Clarence Carter Gladys Knight & The Pips Billy Paul (“Let Em In”) Bill Withers
Love Me Do
Chanels single Epic 075H100
Lovely Rita
Fats Domino single 1968
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Richie Havens - Natalie Cole - single - Capitol 4623
Mother Nature's Son
Jon Lucien CD
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Arthur Conley - single - 1969
Oh! Darling
George Benson Little Junior Parker Towanda Barnes (?) single Groovy 3003
Old Brown Shoe
Paperback Writer
R.B. Greaves single ATCO 6839
Please Please Me
Mary Wells - single - 20th C. Fox 619 - 1965
Rocky Raccoon
Lena Horne/Gabor Szabo - Lena & Gabor - 1969 Richie Havens - 1972
Savoy Truffle
Ella Fitzgerald - Reprise
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Ike & Tina Turner - The World Of Ike & Tina - 1973
She Loves You
Sweet Younguns – single – Pulsar 2420
She's A Woman
Betty Davis Count Basie & Sammy Davis Jr. Nate Williams – single – Rapda 102 Power Pack – Soul Cure – Lp Polydor – 1969 (instrumental)
She's Leaving Home
Al Jarreau All Fly Home 1979 Richie Havens Syreeta
Something
James Brown b-side of "Think" 1973 Dionne Warwick I'll Never Fall In Love Ernie Andrews single Phil L.A. 343 Shirley Bassey Bloodstone Rev. James Cleveland James Govan single Fame Musiq Soulchild O’Jays Lou Rawls Martha Reeves/Vandellas Sarah Vaughan Al Green single Hi 2322 1977 Phyllis Dillon Flame & The Sons Of Darkness - single
Strawberry Fields
Richie Havens Ben Harper
Sue Me, Sue You Blues
Jesse Davis single ATCO 1972
Taxman
Little Junior Parker
Tell Me Why
Stairsteps single Dark Horse 10009 1976 Conya Doss ? – Billy Taylor ? –
The Inner Light
Soulful Strings Little Junior Parker wit Jimmy McGriff
The Long And Winding Road
Diana Ross Everything Is Everythin 1970 Ray Charles single PRO 539 1971 Cissy Houston single PYE Inter. 25545 1971 Clydie King single Lizard 21005 Melba Moore single Buddah 568 New Birth - single – Warner 8217 - 1976
There's A Place
The Galations (?) single Red Coach 900 1975? The Gospel Six (?) single Checker 1262 1974?
Things We Said Today
Sonny Curtis Irene Reid LP 2002
Think For Yourself
Temptations single Atlantic 3461 - 1977
This Boy
Joe Bataan
Ticket To Ride
Fifth Dimension The Magic Garden “Wee” Willie Walker single Goldwax 329 1967 Gwen Guthrie – Ticket To Ride – Lp 4TH & B'WAY 4007
Tomorrow Never Knows
Little Junior Parker – single – Capitol 2951
We Can Work It Out
Maxine Brown - Wand LP 684 - 1967 Dionne Warwick - Scepter LP 573 - 1969 Stevie Wonder - single - Tamla 52402 - 1971 Sam & Dave – single – Contempo 7004 - 1977 Chaka Khan - single - WB 49759 - 1980 Brass Construction – Conversations – Lp Capitol - 1983 Valerie Simpson Keith Washington - single - Qwest 0041 Vontastics Candi Staton - single - WB 8112 Otis Jackson -
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Danny Cox Together LP 1969 Jimmy Ponder Cadet LP 50048 1974 Kenny Lattimore Joe Louis Walker
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Lowell Fulsom - single - Jewel 802 - 1969 Midnight Movers – Do It In The Road – Lp Elephant
With A Little Help From My Friends
Richie Havens 1983 1969 Ike & Tina Turner - The World Of Ike & Tina - 1970 Undisputed Truth - single Gordy 7122 - 1973 Shirley Alston - single - Prodigal 10008 - 1975 Bettye Lavette - single - Karen 1545 Jay Jackson & The Heads of Our Time - single - Mr G 822 Lu Elliott – With A Little Help From My Friends – Lp ABC 637
Within You, Without You
Soulful Strings - single - Cadet 5576 Four Tops - single -Tamla Motown 850
Yellow Submarine
Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - WB LP 1741 - 1968
Yer Blues
Lucky Peterson
Yesterday
Supremes - I Hear A Symphony - 1966 Ray Charles - single - Stateside 2071 - 1967 Monk Higgins - single - Chess 2036 - 1967 Linda Jones - single - Loma 2099 - 1968 Ruth Brown - single - Skye 4521 - 1969 Impressions - ABC LP 668 - 1969 Smokey Robinson/Miracle - Special Occasion - 1968 Marvin Gaye Harold Melvin/Blue Notes??? ???? Lou Rawls Vicki Anderson - single - King 6377 Carstairs - single - Okeh 7329 Roosevelt Grier - single - MOM 13698 Cletus Marland - single - Terry 110 David Newman - single - Atlantic 2554 Raymond & Eddie - single Lou Rawls Temptations Carla Thomas Sarah Vaughan Young-Holt Trio Tyree Glenn Jr & The Fabulous Imperials – single - Sue 109
You Can't Do That
Supremes Doris Willingham ???
You Never Give Your Money
George Benson Sarah Vaughan
You Won't See Me
Madeline Bell Bell’s A Poppin’
Your Mother Should Know
Damita Jo Ranwood LP R-8057 1969
Sources
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