More NJ Beatles covers, via ‘Garden State Sound’

by JAY LUSTIG
The cover of Count Basie album, "Basie's Beatle Bag."

The cover of Count Basie album, “Basie’s Beatle Bag.”

On Monday, I did a post about New Jersey musicians covering Beatles songs. Unbeknownst to me, Evan Toth had opened the most recent edition of his WFDU.FM radio show, “Garden State Sound,” with a segment devoted to the same topic.

None of the material overlapped, though we did both include The Smithereens.

Here are the five songs Toth played; interestingly, four of the five come from albums devoted exclusively to Beatles covers.

Count Basie: “All My Loving” (from Basie’s Beatle Bag, 1966)
Sarah Vaughan: “The Fool on the Hill” (from Songs of the Beatles, 1981)
John Pizzarelli: “Get Back” (from John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles, 1998).
Bucky Pizzarelli: “Yesterdays/Yesterday,” a medley of Jerome Kern’s “Yesterday” and The Beatles’ “Yesterday” (from Flashes — A Lifetime in Words and Music (Solo 7-String Guitar, Vol. 3, 2006)
The Smithereens: “Hold Me Tight” (from Meet the Smithereens, 2007).

You can listen to “Garden State Sound” at evantoth.com or thevinyldistrict.com.

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