List of songs covered by the Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group is often considered the most influential band of the rock era.[1] While active between 1960 and 1970, the group recorded hundreds of songs, with their "main catalogue" consisting of 213 songs, which include 188 originals and 25 covers. Since their break-up, a further 41 covers the Beatles recorded as a group have been released.
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Ringo Starr
Song | Year | Album | Original artist | Ref. |
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"Sentimental Journey" | 1970 | Sentimental Journey | Les Brown | |
"Night and Day" | Fred Astaire | |||
"Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)" | Erskine Hawkins | |||
"Bye Bye Blackbird" | Sam Lanin | |||
"I'm a Fool to Care" | Ted Daffan | |||
"Stardust" | Hoagy Carmichael | |||
"Blue, Turning Grey Over You" | Louis Armstrong | |||
"Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing" | The Four Aces | |||
"Dream" | The Pied Pipers | |||
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" | The Mills Brothers | |||
"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" | Gene Autry | |||
"Let the Rest of the World Go By" | Morton Downey | |||
"Loser's Lounge" | Beaucoups of Blues | Cal Smith | ||
"Have You Seen My Baby" | 1973 | Ringo | Randy Newman | |
"You're Sixteen" | Johnny Burnette | |||
"Husbands and Wives" | 1974 | Goodnight Vienna | Roger Miller | |
"Occapella" | Lee Dorsey | |||
"Only You" | The Platters | |||
"Hey! Baby" | 1976 | Ringo's Rotogravure | Bruce Channel | |
"Drowning in the Sea of Love" | 1977 | Ringo the 4th | Joe Simon | |
"Can She Do It Like She Dances" | King Floyd | |||
"Sneaking Sally Through the Alley" | Lee Dorsey | |||
"Bad Boy" | 1978 | Bad Boy | Lil Armstrong | |
"Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" | Benny Spellman | |||
"Heart on My Sleeve" | Gallagher and Lyle | |||
"Where Did Our Love Go" | The Supremes | |||
"Hard Times" | Peter Skellern | |||
"Tonight" | Small Faces | |||
"Monkey See – Monkey Do" | Michael Franks | |||
"You Belong to Me" | 1981 | Stop and Smell the Roses | Joni James | |
"Sure to Fall" | Carl Perkins | |||
"She's About a Mover" | 1983 | Old Wave | Sir Douglas Quintet | |
"I Keep Forgettin'" | Chuck Jackson | |||
"When You Wish Upon a Star" | 1988 | Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films | Cliff Edwards | |
"Honey Don't" | 1989 | Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band | Carl Perkins | |
"Act Naturally" | Buck Owens | |||
"Golden Blunders" | 1992 | Time Takes Time | The Posies | |
"Don't Be Cruel" | Elvis Presley | |||
"Boys" | 1993 | Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Volume 2: Live from Montreux | The Shirelles | |
"Brandy" | 1994 | Stop and Smell the Roses Reissue | The O'Jays | |
"Lay Down Your Arms" | 1995 | For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson | Harry Nilsson | |
"Drift Away" | 1998 | Vertical Man | Mike Berry | |
"Winter Wonderland" | 1999 | I Wanna Be Santa Claus | Richard Himber | |
"The Little Drummer Boy" | Trapp Family | |||
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | Gene Autry | |||
"Blue Christmas" | Doye O'Dell | |||
"White Christmas" | Bing Crosby | |||
"Think It Over" | 2012 | Ringo 2012 | The Crickets | |
"Rock Island Line" | Lead Belly | |||
"Hey, Would You Hold it Down?" | 2018 | King of the Road - A Tribute to Roger Miller | Roger Miller | |
"Grow Old with Me" | 2019 | What's My Name | John Lennon | |
"Money (That's What I Want)" | Barrett Strong | |||
"Rock Around the Clock" | 2021 | Change the World | Sonny Dae and His Knights | |
"See You Later, Alligator" | Songs from Quarantine: Vol. 2 | Bobby Charles |
See also
References
External links
- The Roots of the Beatles
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performances
- 1960 Johnny Gentle Tour
- Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour
- 1963 Roy Orbison Tour
- The Ed Sullivan Show appearances
- 1964 world tour
- The Beatles' 1964 tour of Australia
- 1964 North American tour
- 1965 European tour
- 1965 US tour
- 1965 UK tour
- 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines
- 1966 US tour
- Our World performance
- Rooftop concert
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companies
places
- 10 Admiral Grove
- 12 Arnold Grove
- 20 Forthlin Road
- 251 Menlove Avenue
- 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone
- Abbey Road, London
- Ad Lib Club
- The Bag O'Nails
- Beatles Ashram
- Beatles-Platz
- Blue Angel
- Casbah Coffee Club
- Candlestick Park
- Carnegie Hall
- The Cavern Club
- Cavern Mecca
- Comiskey Park
- The Jacaranda
- Kaiserkeller
- Kinfauns
- London Palladium
- Penny Lane, Liverpool
- 3 Savile Row
- The Scotch of St. James
- Shea Stadium
- St Peter's Church
- Stanley Street
- Star-Club
- Strawberry Field
- Tittenhurst Park
- The Top Ten Club
- Wigmore Street
- The Beatles Anthology
- The Beatles: The Authorised Biography
- A Cellarful of Noise
- I, Me, Mine
- Lennon Remembers
- Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
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