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No Googling........guesses to the most covered song of all time.....and I'll give you a clue..its from the 60's and comes off an album that has been rated in the top 5 greatest album of all time

Eleanor Rigby

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which is the wrong answer......

oh really pythagoras? Look I back myself to remember the answers to pub quizzes because they repeat questions and I have a poor man's photographic memory for mundane 5h1t.

 

So you force me to turn to google, or our slightly more credible friend, wikipedia.

 

BOOM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_Beatles_songs

I think we can all agree that this is as credible a source as we're going to get.

 

 

Eleanor Rigby - 50 versions

Yesterday - 54 versions.

 

It is so covered, even the king of coverees has done a version (I'm talking about Robert Zimmerman). but it was close, I'll let you off the hook here.

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Eleanor Rigby

 

 

Well done....did you cheat? Lol

 

 

Nope, unless spending an entire life acquiring useless information is considered cheating.......

 

I'm going to side with Shebeen on this one. Yesterday has surely been covered by more artists than Eleanor Rigby. Sketch, what was your source?

 

Agreed, Revolver was a better album than Help! but I have seen estimates of Yesterday being covered by thousands to millions of artists... to quote Eleanor Rigby "no one comes near" :whistling:

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oh really pythagoras? Look I back myself to remember the answers to pub quizzes because they repeat questions and I have a poor man's photographic memory for mundane 5h1t.

 

So you force me to turn to google, or our slightly more credible friend, wikipedia.

 

BOOM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_Beatles_songs

I think we can all agree that this is as credible a source as we're going to get.

 

 

Eleanor Rigby - 50 versions

Yesterday - 54 versions.

 

It is so covered, even the king of coverees has done a version (I'm talking about Robert Zimmerman). but it was close, I'll let you off the hook here.

 

Closer than the internet reference I found:

 

Eleanor Rigby: 131 versions

Yesterday: 3000+

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/20811/quick-10-10-most-covered-songs-ever

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This http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=most+covered+songs+of+all+time

 

takes you to this

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-10-most-covered-songs-1052165.html

 

although some other sources say yesterday - so it may very well depend on the method of counting what defines a valid cover version

 

so the two most covered songs of all time are yesterday and Elanor rigby

 

Happy mr calculus?

Edited by Stretch

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