Top 60 Cover Versions

Neil’s Top 60 Cover Versions

This one is big – so big that we have decided to let Neil select his 60 – that’s right, 60 – best cover versions. Songs that were previously released by another band or artist, given a second (or third!) life by someone else. In part it’s the quality of the song, but mostly it’s the performance that gives these songs their place in the list.

How many of these would you include in your list?

  1. You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling – Long John Baldry (with Kathi Macdonald)
  2. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Marcia Hines
  3. Jealous Guy – Roxy Music
  4. Dear Prudence – Doug Parkinson
  5. Crying – Don McLean
  6. The Sound Of Silence – Disturbed
  7. A Song Of Joy – Miguel Rios
  8. The Wonder Of You – Elvis Presley
  9. Over The Rainbow – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
  10. Living Next Door To Alice – Smokie
  11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Elton John
  12. Superstar – Colleen Hewett
  13. Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede
  14. Fire And Rain – Marcia Hines
  15. The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury
  16. All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
  17. A Groovy Kind Of Love – Phil Collins
  18. Turn The Page – Jon English
  19. You’re My World – Daryl Braithwaite
  20. Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt
  21. I Got You Babe – UB40 & Chrissie Hynde
  22. One – Johnny Farnham
  23. Knock Knock Who’s There – Liv Maessen
  24. Venus – Bananarama
  25. Yellow River – Jigsaw
  26. California Girls – David Lee Roth
  27. Funky Town – Pseudo Echo
  28. Just A Gigilo / I Ain’t Got Nobody – David Lee Roth
  29. Don’t Be Cruel – Cheap Trick
  30. Somethin’ Stupid – Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman
  31. When You Walk In The Room – Paul Carrack
  32. Angel Of The Morning – Juice Newton
  33. Eleanor Rigby – Zoot
  34. Macarthur Park – Donna Summer
  35. Breaking Up Is hard To Do – The Partridge Family
  36. Cherish – David Cassidy
  37. With A Little Help From My Friends – Joe Cocker
  38. You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine – Ringo Starr
  39. Cry – Lisa Edwards
  40. We’ve Got Tonight – Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton
  41. Don’t Leave Me This Way – The Communards
  42. In The Summertime – The Mixtures
  43. He’s Gonna Step On You Again – Party Boys
  44. Help – John Farnham
  45. I Only Want To Be With You – The Tourists
  46. Suspicious Minds – Fine Young Cannibals
  47. Ti Amo – Laura Branigan
  48. Hazy Shade Of Winter – The bangles
  49. Little Sister – Ry Cooder
  50. Hole In My Shoe – Nigel Planer (as Neil)
  51. On Broadway – George Benson
  52. True Love Ways – Peter and Gordon
  53. Woodstock – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
  54. (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet – Mental As Anything
  55. Concrete And Clay – Martin Plaza
  56. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Elvis Presley
  57. Love Is All Around – Wet Wet Wet
  58. Nowhere Man – Sherbet
  59. Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
  60. Hey Paula – Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale

The next 10 cabs off the rank if we had taken it to number 70 – in chronological order:

  • Que Sera Sera – Normie Rowe – 1965
  • If Not For You – Olivia Newton-John – 1971
  • Please Mr Postman – The Carpenters – 1975
  • Black Is Black – La Belle Epoque – 1978
  • Love You More Than I Can Say – Leo Sayer – 1980
  • You Can’t Hurry love – Phil Collins – 1983
  • Always Something There To Remind Me – Naked Eyes – 1983
  • The Horses – Daryl Braithwaite – 1991
  • American Pie – Madonna – 2000
  • Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows – 2003