Yet another detailed set coming from the Cherry Red reissue specialists. This time around, under the title With a Little Help From My Friends: Covers of The Beatles 1967-1970, they have prepared a collection of Beatles covers other artists released from the period mentioned in the upcoming 3-CD collection. The release date is set for September 19, 2025, through their Strawberry imprint.
The collection presents 75 tracks recorded by such acts as Ike & Tina Turner, Billy Preston, Harry Nilsson, Jose Feliciano, Wilson Pickett and Richie Havens, and complements label’s 2023 successful set that spanned the band’s early years of 1962-1966. The new title is available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.
The new set looks at the continuing huge influence The Beatles had on a multitude of artists in disparate genres throughout numerous countries. Their impact was felt in almost every sphere of music with this compilation featuring artists working in genres such as rock, blues, country, soul, folk, classical, jazz, and more. This wild variety of musical styles not only illustrates the strength of the compositional skills of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison but also provides an engaging and eclectic listening experience that appeal to fans of The Beatles in particular as well as those who like popular music in general.
With a Little Help From My Friends: Covers of The Beatles 1967-1970 Track Listing
Disc One
- Dominique – Walter Penny Lane
- Richie Havens – Strawberry Fields Forever
- Arthur Lyman – With a Little Help from My Friends
- William Shatner – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- Living Daylights – Getting Better
- Jackie & Roy – Fixing a Hole
- Harry Nilsson – She’s Leaving Home
- The Soulful Strings – Within You Without You
- Claudine Longet – When I’m Sixty-Four
- Fats Domino – Lovely Rita
- Brian Auger – a Day in the Life
- Anita Kerr – All You Need Is Love
- The Hollyridge – Strings Baby, You’re a Rich Man
- Kenny Ball – Your Mother Should Know
- Lord Sitar – I Am the Walrus
- Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo – Fool on the Hill
- Herbie Mann – Flying
- Bud Shank – Blue Jay Way
- Supersession Workshop – Hello, Goodbye
- Cilla Black – Step Inside Love
- Cal Tjader – Lady Madonna
- The Underdogs – The Inner Light
- Roger Skinner and the Motivation – Sour Milk Sea
- Wilson Pickett – Hey Jude
Disc Two
- Head Shop – Revolution
- John Fred – Back in the U.S.S.R.
- The 5 Stairsteps and Cubie – Dear Prudence
- Arif Mardin – Glass Onion
- The Marmalade – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- The In-Betweens – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Bobby Bryant – Happiness As a Warm Gun
- Ambrose Slade – Martha My Dear
- Billy Preston – I’m So Tired
- Maggie MacNeal – Blackbird
- Mike Batt – Piggies
- Mickey Stevenson – Rocky Raccoon
- Family Four – Don’t Pass Me By
- Lowell Fulson – Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
- Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti – I Will
- Ramsey Lewis – Julia
- Lee Castle – Birthday
- Gryphon – Mother Nature’s Son
- Fats Domino – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
- Ramsey Lewis – Sexy Sadie
- Zebra – Helter Skelter
- Smacka Fitzgibbon – Honey Pie
- Mike Batt – Savoy Truffle
- Vaughan Thomas – Cry Baby Cry
- Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short – Good Night
- Joy Unlimited – All Together Now
Disc Three
- Bill Deal & the Rhondels – Hey Bulldog
- Journey – It’s All Too Much
- Harry J All Stars – Don’t Let Me Down
- Percy Faith Strings – The Ballad of John and Yoko
- Ike & Tina Turner – Come Together
- The Templeton Twins – Something
- The Bells Maxwell’s – Silver Hammer
- Hush – Oh! Darling
- Jackie Lee – Octopus’s Garden
- George Benson – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- We Five – Here Comes the Sun
- Gary McFarland – Because
- George Benson – You Never Give Me Your Money
- Percy Faith Orchestra – Sun King
- Jose Feliciano – She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
- Elis Regina – Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
- Charlie Byrd – Her Majesty
- Mortimer – on Our Way Home
- Tony Osborne – Across the Universe
- Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding – Let It Be
- KGB – I’ve Got a Feeling
- Day Costello – the Long and Winding Road
- Drummond – For You Blue
- Amen Corner – Get Back
- Farnborough Firework Factory – Too Many People
