Help [Import]

The Help | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD (December 14, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B0000259XM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great sequel to All you need is covers, April 12, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Help (Songs of the Beatles II) (Audio CD)

This set was compiled from the British labels Pye, Piccadilly, Transatlantic and Immediate, so is necessarily restricted in what it includes, yet such is the abundance of Beatles covers that there is plenty to enjoy in this compilation, which is even more eclectic than All you need is covers. The covers are presented in Beatles date order, although it does not follow that the actual covers were recorded in that order. Unlike All you need is covers, here Let it be follows the tracks from Abbey road. Also unlike All you need is covers, this set includes covers of post-Beatles songs, ending with Mull of Kintyre by the Alexander brothers, famous in Scotland but virtually unknown elsewhere.

There are also a few songs that the Beatles wrote but did not record themselves, one of these being Step inside love, a UK top ten hit for Cilla Black, but here covered by the Paper dolls, whose big hit was Something here in my heart keeps a-telling me no.

The big hit here is Ob-la-di ob-la-da, with which Marmalade had a UK number one. The Kestrels, who I described in my review of All you need is covers, open this set with Please please me.

Petula Clark, the most famous artist featured here, is represented here with Partir il nous faut, her French version of Nobody I know (a hit for Peter and Gordon), and also puts in other appearances with her covers of We can work it out and Maybe I'm amazed. Of the other names featured here, the ones with greatest recognition are Chris Farlowe (Yesterday), Todd Rundgren (Rain), PP Arnold (Eleanor Rigby), Anita Harris (Here there and everywhere), The Tremeloes (Good day sunshine), Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch (With a little help from my friends), Max Bygraves (When I'm 64), Acker Bilk (Fool on the hill), Kenny Ball (Lady Madonna), The Moments (Rocky Racoon) and Chairmen of the board (Come together).

Like its predecessor, these are not always the best covers of these songs, but most of them are very enjoyable, so this is an intriguing set for fans of Beatles covers.