did ashford and simpson record any beatles songs?
A particularly good music database is the All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com If you go to that site and look up Ashford & Simpson, you can look up their entire catalog. I’ve looked them up, and found that they recorded very few songs other than their own compositions: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aifuxqw5ldae~1~T31C As for your question about “Norwegian Wood,” you can also look up individual songs on All Music Guide. I did, and found that there have been at least a couple of dozen cover versions recorded of “Norwegian Wood.” Many of them by artists you’ve likely never heard of: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:1091899 Just for fun, I checked another source. There’s a l
The Fiery Furnaces, Jan and Dean Acker Bilk, Buddy Rich, Herbie Hancock, P. M. Dawn, Colin Hay, Victor Wooten, Mia Doi Todd, Milton Nascimento, Sérgio Mendes and Cornershop; Cornershop’s version, from their album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, is entirely in Punjabi. It was played live during U2’s Vertigo Tour. Artist Frank Zappa recorded a version satirising the sex scandal involving Jimmy Swaggart, but it is only available on bootleg recordings. The Alan Copeland Singers’ recording of the lyrics of “Norwegian Wood” to the tune of the Mission: Impossible theme song won a 1969 Grammy for “Best Contemporary Pop Performance, Chorus”. Neil Young used the guitar lick of Norwegian Wood in live performances of Cinnamon Girl http://www.google.com/musicad?aid=CLRPaHF97_E I don’t see any Beatles songs in their discography. I like them a lot though and had kind of forgotten them, so I have downloaded Solid from Amazon
