Various Artists – Come Together (Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney) CD

Various Artists – Come Together (Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney)

The songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney were frequently covered in all fields of music. It was inevitable that many of the best covers would emerge from a genre of popular music that was so important to all four Beatles. "Come Together" presents a cross-section of Lennon & McCartney covers from artists as diverse as hard-core bluesman Lowell Fulson and supreme exponents of "sweet soul", the Moments, via such stellar names as Al Green, Chubby Checker, Little Richard, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. The range of repertoire covers virtually the entire recording and songwriting career of Lennon & McCartney, and embraces both their first big US hit I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and their last,The Long And Winding Road'. Many of the inclusions will possibly come as complete surprises even to those who think they know their Beatles covers inside out. This is a collection that is essential for both serious soul collectors and the still-vast legion of admirers that simply have to have every note of music associated with any of the Beatles.

Tracklist:
1. I Want To Hold Your Hand - Al Green
2. Back In the Ussr - Chubby Checker
3. We Can Work It Out - Maxine Brown
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey -
5. Ticket To Ride - Wee Willie Walker
6. Good Day Sunshine - Roy Redmond
7. Please Please Me - Mary Wells
8. Eleanor Rigby - Gene Chandler
9. And I Love Her - the Vibrations
10. Come Together - Chairmen of the Board
11. Blackbird - Billy Preston
12. Paperback Writer - R.B. Greaves
13. Rocky Racoon - the Moments
14. Drive My Car - Black Heat
15. Lady Madonna - Junior Parker
16. Help - David Porter
17. Yesterday - Linda Jones
18. Day Tripper (Previously Unissued Alt Take 4) - Otis Redding
19. Why Don't We Do It In the Road - Lowell Fulson
20. I Saw Her Standing There - Little Richard
21. Don't Let Me Down - Donald Height
22. Get Back - the Main Ingredient
23. The Long and Winding Road - the New Birth
24. Let It Be - Aretha Franklin

Label: ACE RECORDS 
Released: 2011