or is Hank looking a bit Lennonish?

with long-ish hair there and, dare I say it, Cilla is looking a bit foxy in that clip.

Back to the matter in hand. Crap Beatles' cover versions don't come any crapper than William Shatner doing Lucy In The Sky

http://youtu.be/jMVYUgn8p0U

And that's without even trying...I actually found the OP's example weirdly compelling.

Anybody know why I'm having no luck embedding YouTube stuff, by the way?

due to her being the 23rd Beatle and an old mate of the band.

I'd forgotten about Marvin, Welch & Farrer, they were an attempt to reinvent the Shads for the 1970s as I recall. They always seemed to be backing Cliff or Olivia Newton-John.

...for your complete HJH covers hell experience, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBeatlesCovers

Currently grooving to 'Piggies' by Theodore Bikel...that's the rest of the afternoon shot. Thanks, OP!

I recall eventually tracking down the original of the lovely 'Take A Giant Step', written by Carole Bayer Sager and recorded by Taj Mahal on his Giant Step LP. The original, or so it seems, was recorded by the Monkees, and at six times the tempo. For once, the cover was better than the original.

again. Her version of 10CC's 'I'm not in love'. Too fast, and devoid of all the feeling the original had.

...a complete set of HJH covers on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/seamusr/playlist/34GzCs3wYBVaTUP1DhbSVE

and this has been posted before but.........

Justin Currie "Strawberry Fields"

In late 1963 or early 1964 I saw a Brian Epstein package tour at the City Hall in Sheffield. Gerry & the Pacemakers were the headliners and Cilla closed the first half. Also on the bill were Sounds Incorporated (who backed the solo artists as well as playing their own slot) and Tommy Quickly, an Epstein stable also-ran who had received a crumb from the Lennon & McCartney table in the shape of The Tip Of My Tongue. It was the first show of its kind I ever saw and my initial exposure to the then-new phenomenon of audience hysteria.

Cilla wore a full length pink chiffon ball gown and although her 20 minute set was hardly a walk on the wild side, she performed to deafening screams throughout, something I found incongruous at the time. Why were all those girls screaming at Cilla? All became clear when, in an accent so thick you could almost carve it, she introduced Love Of The Loved as "a song written by a couple of my mates in Liverpool, John and Paul” and the place went ballistic. Ah, so this was Beatlemania by proxy.

This was confirmed when The Pacemakers came on to close the show in collarless Beatle suits with cuban-heeled boots and played their hits amid a hail of jelly babies. Epstein was providing a touch of ersatz Beatle magic without actually giving us the real thing. It worked fine for a year or two, but by then the Beatles had pulled so far ahead of the pack that the façade could no longer be maintained and the rest of the Epstein stable were faced with a stark choice - family entertainment or obscurity.

Sammy Davis Jr's version of In The Ghetto really must be taken into consideration..

compiled a whole set of CDs of covers of Beatles albums, sequenced in the same order as the albums. It varies from the sublime (Ella Fitzgerald doing "Savoy Truffle") to the ridiculous (too many to list.) Rather nicely, they've included the originals of some of the Beatles' covers.

They're available on a torrent site near you - each album is titled "ReCovering..." followed by the album title (ie "ReCovering Please Please Me", etc.)

Oh, and perhaps I should add that I had nothing to do with the compilations - I just found them while searching for something else one day.

if only for the 'I'm counting in my head' dancing ...