SOUL ON BEATLES

'Soul On Beatles'
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This article is meant to provide a list of cover versions of Beatles' songs performed merely by black soul and jazz artists not reggae.
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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 Weed 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
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Sources
http://gemm.com
http://www.raresoulman.co.uk
http://www.recordsbymail.com
http://www.dustygroove.com
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09:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)