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We're looking at 50 of them, from metal to jazz to classical to country (and even barbershop quartet).

As the oft-told story goes, Paul McCartney woke up with the melody in his head. More than twenty years later, he teamed up with Merle Haggard to record it again, as a follow-up to their Pancho & Lefty album.

It was arranged and conducted by Dick Hyman.

 

Judy Collins (2007)

Judy Collins first covered the Beatles when she mde "In My Life" the title track for a 1966 alum. George Harrison, who often played a Gretsch Chet Akins Country Gentleman guitar in the band's early days, wrote the liner notes.

 

Vince Guaraldi (1969)

Best remembered for his music on the Peanuts television specials, Vince Guaraldi had a celebrated career as a jazz pianist.

When it came to her songs, she was known for being uninterested in half measures. Toots Thielemans, a legend on the harmonica, closed out the record with "Yesterday."

 

Jason Falkner (2008)

Jason Falkner is a power-pop legend, having played with the Three O'Clock, Jellyfish and the Grays, while recording several solo albums.

If that wasn't surreal enough, the cover art was drawn by Gerald Scarfe, who famously did the illustrations for Pink Floyd's The Wall.

 

Sarah Vaughan (1966)

Pop Artistry found jazz great Sarah Vaughan recording a dozen songs from the side of the pop charts that owed a debt to Tin Pan Alley, including a pair of Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs and Petula Clark's "I Know a Place." The album was kicked off by "Yesterday."

 

Liberace (1967)

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Remarkably, Gaye would take a huge leap the following year, with the release of What’s Going On.

Linda Jones – Yesterday (The Beatles cover)

One of the lesser known members of the 27 Club, Linda Jones died of complications from diabetes when she was still just getting warmed up.

There are millions of songs like 'Michelle' and 'Yesterday' written in Tin Pan Alley." Still, in May 1970, he and George Harrison went into a New York studio with some session pros (including Al Kooper) and cut a handful of songs, including "Yesterday." The recordings have never been officially released.

 

Elvis Presley (1970)

Elvis Presley's residency at the International Hotel in Las Vegas was about seven months old when he recorded On Stage in February 1970.

"Yesterday" was called by its working title, "Scrambled Egg."

 

Cathy Berberian (1967)

Cathy Berberian, the opera singer mocked by Steely Dan in "Your Gold Teeth," released an entire album of Beatles songs as arias in 1967. But the sounds found on The Revolutionary Piano of Nicky Hopkins were far removed from the bluesy rock he made with the likes of the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and the Who.

Instead, it's an orchestrated, easy-listening collection of standards, including "Yesterday."

 

The Band of Irish Guards (1966)

The Irish Guards are one of regiments whose job is to protect the British royal family, and its band often supplies the music at ceremonial functions.

It appeared on 1965's Today's Great Hits.

 

 

Xavier Cugat (1970)

Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat, known for conducting his orchestra with a chihuahua under his arm, recorded "Yesterday" in 1970.

 

Ras Attitude (2013)

There have been numerous compilations of Beatles songs performed by reggae artists over the years, including 2013's Hemp! That one begins with UB40's Ali Campbell and the famous rhythm section of Sly & Robbie performing "A Hard Day's Night" Ras Attitude takes honors on "Yesterday."

 

Puddles Pity Party (2017)

Mike Geier has been making videos of himself singing a variety of songs while dressed as a sad clown named Puddles since 2013.

So now we arrive at “Yesterday” by the Beatles, a song they recorded four days before Paul McCartney turned 23.

Within a couple of years, it had risen to the level of a standard, with numerous pop singers and jazz musicians taking a shot at it alongside treasures from the Great American Songbook.

If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. However, in the name of sonic diversity, we've discovered some renditions by lesser-known acts. Paul did chide Gaye and others like him who changed “I said something wrong” to “I must have said something wrong” (“They’re not owning up!”), but he and we know that this is true art–straying from the original melodically as well as lyrically, but retaining and expanding on the song’s feeling.

He gave it the working title "Scrambled Eggs" but eventually came up with a less-whimsical lyric. Robinson."

 

En Vogue (1992)

En Vogue bridged '60s girl-group harmonies with a '90s sound with multi-platinum success. This is soul with a strong, strong heart.

Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson – Yesterday (The Beatles cover)

Willie Nelson recorded “Yesterday” for a 1966 live album.

His cover of "Yesterday" appeared on 1969's The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi.

 

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1987)

Later retitled The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Beatles, 1987's Beatlephonic was the famous London orchestra's second album of Beatles songs.

Nelson had previously released a version on a 1966 live album.

 

Ray Charles (1968)

Ray Charles put his oft-imitated-never-duplicated stamp on the Beatles classic in 1967. Instead, it consisted of his versions of songs like "Yesterday," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary," Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" and Del Shannon's "Runaway."

 

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It was a symbiotic relationship: The Beatles earned a degree of credibility for their growing compositional skills while the established stars showing that they, too, had their ears tuned to the new generation.

With so many versions to choose, we've restricted our list to only 50, with acts that are mostly famous.