Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon Mccartney & Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon Mccartney & CD

2016 collection. The highly anticipated second volume of songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison is no less potent than 2011's Come Together. The compositions of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison were no less appreciated by their black American peers than they were by their fellow pop and rock acts. Here are 22 reinterpretations of Beatles classics that frequently take the songs in new directions, but never lose sight of the original intention of the writers. We welcome back a few artists from Come Together but the majority of acts here have not been featured previously. Four of the songs are reprised from the previous volume and offer a really fascinating comparison as they are heard here in very different arrangements. While many familiar names are on board there are some who you might not expect to hear covering a Beatles song.

1. Eleanor Rigby - Aretha Franklin 2. Dear Prudence - the 5 Stairsteps 3. Got to Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind and Fire 4. Do You Want to Know a Secret - Mary Wells 5. The Fool on the Hill - Four Tops 6. Lovely Rita - Fats Domino 7. Here Comes the Sun - Nina Simone 8. Ob la Di Ob la Da - Arthur Conley 9. A World Without Love - the Supremes 10. Tomorrow Never Knows - Junior Parker 11. Don't Let Me Down - Randy Crawford 12. With a Little Help from My Friends - the Undisputed Truth 13. A Hard Day's Night - Screamin' Jay Hawkins 14. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - Ike ; Tina Turner 15. For No One - Maceo ; All the King's Men 16. It's Only Love - Gary Us Bonds 17. We Can Work It Out - Dionne Warwick 18. Hey Jude - the Temptations 19. In My Life - Boyz II Men 20. Savoy Truffle - Ella Fitzgerald 21. Something - Isaac Hayes 22. Let It Be - Bill Withers