List of songs covered by the Beatles

This article is a list of cover versions recorded and released by the Beatles as a band or solo artists.

The Beatles

Solo

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John Lennon

• "Ya Ya" (Lee Dorsey) - Walls and Bridges, 1974
• "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (Gene Vincent) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Rip It Up"/"Ready Teddy" (Little Richard) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "You Can't Catch Me" (Chuck Berry) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Ain't That a Shame" (Fats Domino) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Do You Wanna Dance?" (Bobby Freeman) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Slippin' and Slidin'" (Little Richard) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Peggy Sue" (Buddy Holly) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Bring It On Home to Me"/"Send Me Some Lovin'" (Sam Cooke/Lloyd Price) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Bony Moronie" (Larry Williams) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Just Because" (Lloyd Price) - Rock 'n' Roll, 1975
• "Hound Dog" (Big Mama Thornton) - Live in New York City, 1986
• "Angel Baby" (Rosie Hamlin) - Rock 'n' Roll, 2004 reissue
• "To Know Her Is to Love Her" (Phil Spector) - Rock 'n' Roll, 2004 reissue
• "Since My Baby Left Me" (Arthur Crudup) - Rock 'n' Roll, 2004 reissue
• "Just Because (Reprise)" - Rock 'n' Roll, 2004 reissue
• "Mucho Mungo" (Harry Nilsson) - The Lost Sleepy Blind Lemon Lennon Album, 1990
• "Be My Baby" (Phil Spector) - Lost Weekend, 1973-1974

Paul McCartney

• "Lonesome Town" - (Ricky Nelson)
• "Twenty Flight Rock" - (Eddie Cochran)
• "Blue Jean Bop" - (Gene Vincent)
• "All Shook Up" - (Elvis Presley)
• "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" - (Chuck Berry)
• "Be Bop a Lula" - (Gene Vincent)

For Paul McCartney's 1988 Снова в СССР album (released worldwide in 1991), formed only of rock, blues and jazz classics and including some of those mentioned above:

• "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" - (Lloyd Price)
• "I'm in Love Again" - (Fats Domino)
• "Bring It On Home to Me" - (Sam Cooke)
• "Lucille" - (Little Richard)
• "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - (Duke Ellington)
• "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" - (Fats Domino)
• "That's All Right" (under the title of "That's All Right, Mama") - (Elvis Presley)
• "Summertime" - (George Gershwin)
• "Ain't That a Shame" - (Fats Domino)
• "Crackin' Up" - (Bo Diddley)
• "Just Because" - (Nelstone's Hawaiians, The Shelton Brothers, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee)
• "Midnight Special" - traditional

George Harrison

• "Got My Mind Set on You" - (James Ray)
• "If Not for You" - (Bob Dylan)
• "Absolutely Sweet Marie" - (Bob Dylan)
• "Anna Julia" - (Los Hermanos)
• "True Love" - (Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly)
• "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry)
• "Hong Kong Blues" (Hoagy Carmichael)
• "I Really Love You" (Leroy Swearingen)
• "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)

Ringo Starr

Starr's 1970 solo debut album, Sentimental Journey, consists entirely of standards:

• "Sentimental Journey"
• "Night and Day"
• "Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)"
• "Bye Bye Blackbird"
• "I'm a Fool to Care" - (Les Paul and Mary Ford)
• "Stardust"
• "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" - (Louis Armstrong)
• "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"
• "Dream"
• "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
• "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"
• "Let the Rest of the World Go By"

Later covers by Ringo:

• "You're Sixteen" (1973), Ringo, Bob Sherman/Dick Sherman
• "Husbands and Wives" (1974), Goodnight Vienna, Roger Miller
• "Only You (And You Alone)" (1974), Goodnight Vienna, Buck Ram/Ande Rand
• "No No Song" (1974), Goodnight Vienna, Hoyt Axton/David Jackson
• "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" (1976), Ringo's Rotogravure, Carl Groszman
• "Hey! Baby" (1976), Ringo's Rotogravure, Margaret Cobb/Bruce Channel
• "Drowning in the Sea of Love" (1977), Ringo the 4th, Kenny Gamble/Leon Huff - (Joe Simon)
• "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley" (1977), Ringo the 4th, Allen Toussaint
• "Bad Boy" (1978), Bad Boy, Lil Armstrong/Avon Long
• "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" (1978), Bad Boy, Toussaint
• "Heart on My Sleeve" (1978), Bad Boy, Gallagher and Lyle
• "Where Did Our Love Go" (1978), Bad Boy, Eddie Holland/Lamont Dozier/Brian Holland
• "Monkey See – Monkey Do" (1978), Bad Boy, Michael Franks
• "You Belong to Me", Stop and Smell the Roses, Pee Wee King/Redd Stewart/Chilton Price
• "Sure to Fall" (1981), Stop and Smell the Roses, Carl Perkins/Quinton Claunch/William Cantrell
• "She's About a Mover" (1983), Old Wave, Doug Sahm
• "I Keep Forgettin'" (1983), Old Wave, Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
• "Golden Blunders" (1992), Time Takes Time, Jonathan Auer/Kenneth Stringfellow
• "Don't Be Cruel" (1992), Time Takes Time, Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley
• "Love Me Do" (1998), Vertical Man, Lennon–McCartney
• "Drift Away" (1998), Vertical Man, Mentor Williams
• "Winter Wonderland" (1999), I Wanna Be Santa Claus, Felix Bernard/Richard B. Smith
• "The Little Drummer Boy" (1999), I Wanna Be Santa Claus, Harry Simeone/Henry Onorati/Katherine K. Davis
• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1999), I Wanna Be Santa Claus, Johnny Marks
• "Blue Christmas" (1999), I Wanna Be Santa Claus, Bill Hayes/Jay Johnson
• "White Christmas" (1999), I Wanna Be Santa Claus, Irving Berlin
• "Think It Over" (2012), Ringo 2012, Buddy Holly/Norman Petty
• "Rock Island Line" (2012), Ringo 2012

External links

• The Roots of the Beatles