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    Who was the first person to do a cover version a Lennon/McCartney song?

    Question #123043. Asked by serpa. (Aug 14 11 5:23 PM)


    mctavish99

    		Kenny Lynch. The 1963 song was "Misery".

    " Lynch is most famous for a flop single he issued the same year. That was "Misery" the first cover version of a Beatles song to be released. In early 1963, Lynch had been on the same bill as the Beatles on the group's first British tour; John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "Misery" in January 1963, in the hopes that the artist on top of the bill, Helen Shapiro, would record it. Shapiro's record producer turned it down, but Lynch took the composition and gave it a much more pop oriented arrangement than the Beatles would use when they recorded "Misery" themselves on their debut album, Please Please Me."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Lynch#Career

    Aug 15 11, 1:52 AM

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