Other Mixes By Kostas
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Alternative - Indie Rock
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Alternative - Indie Rock
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Theme
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Theme
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Alternative - Indie Rock
R & Beatles
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| Artist | Song | |
| Otis Redding |
Day tripper 
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| The Four Tops |
Eleanor Rigby
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| Cissy Houston |
The long and winding road
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| Billy Preston |
I've got a feeling
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| Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Something | |
| The Supremes |
Come together
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| Aretha Franklin |
Let it be
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| Ramsey Lewis |
Sexy Sadie
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| Joe Cocker |
With a little help from my friends
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| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| The 5 Stairsteps | Dear Prudence | |
| Al Green | I want to hold your hand | |
| The Detroit Emeralds | And I love her | |
| Stevie Wonder |
We can work it out
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| Marvin Gaye |
Yesterday
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| Booker T. & The MG's |
Lady Madonna
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| Doris Troy |
Get back
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| Nina Simone |
Here comes the sun
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| Wilson Pickett |
Hey Jude
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Comment:
18 R&B covers of 18 songs by The Beatles, made to fit a 60min cassette (or CD). The rules are simple (as exemplified by Nick Hornby): no artist appears twice, each song is covered once, you can't have black music and white music together unless white music sounds like black music (hence the Joe Cocker and the Stax house band additions). To this I add one more: only covers that add something to the original appear here (The Supremes covering "Can't buy me love" and Fats Domino covering "Lady Madonna" are almost identical to the originals save the accent). Enjoy!Feedback:
Screw Nick Hornby! You can have ANYthing in a mix, no matter if it's black, white, red, yellow or brown. You just gotta know how to put it together . . . ;) Nice one, btw.
The Beatles wrote some great Motown! Hard to beat. Did Hornby really write that third rule? What a load of horseshit.
Yep, I just looked it up, its on p. 69 (for a moment I thought I have gone stark mad and begun making things up). Yet I get your point. It doesn't sound that good, but its just a book, nothing to be taken too seriously... or not?
Yeah, I guess it is just a fictional character's opinion. Still horseshit.
Course the character also files his albums chronologically by date of purchase. That ought to tell you something. We all have rules. And if they float your boat they are good. Might try to follow up with another Beatles covers someday...
Great stuff here. I would have had a hard time picking an Eleanor Rigby cover, Aretha and Ray Charles both had killers, also.
This works very well, by crikey! Fab!
You beat me to this! I've been trying to assemble "The Black Beatles" for several months now. In addition to most of your picks, I've included Bob Marley's "And I Love Her," The Bar-Kay's "Hard Day's Night," Natalie Cole's live version of "Lucy In The Sky," Peter Tosh's "Here Comes The Sun," Shirley Bassey's "Something," The Persuasions' "Let It Be," Tina Turner's "Help," and Randy Crawford's "Imagine." I guess mine will be shelved for a while while I search for more candidates to replace those you've already used.