>Pickett was completely disinterested in recording the Beatles song, but eventually acquiesced at the insistence of Duane Allman. The session went smoothly enough, with the Wicked Pickett giving his usual 100% to the vocals, but a problem arose in the mastering stage. >Producer Rick Hall noticed during the final playback that Pickett was not actually singing the title "Hey Jude" -- in fact, he was singing "Hey Jew". Thinking Wilson had intentionally sabotaged the recording, Hall called him late at night and demanded an explanation. The befuddled singer innocently replied, "What, isn't that what it's called?">Atlantic released the single anyway, with most listeners none the wiser.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plFySgtV6Uk
Dionne Warwick covered Hey Jude as well on her Soulful album.
>>124475602>post wrong songfuck offhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8Q2PATVyI
The Best of Wilson Pickett Vol. II [Atlantic, 1971]"A Man and a Half" is the quintessential Pickett title from this period--he's always striving to become more than he has any reason to expect to be. Yet for all the overstatement of "Born to Be Wild" or "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (the Box Tops did a better job on that one) he got there pretty often--in screaming tandem with Duane Allman on "Hey Jude," in voluble tandem with Gamble-Huff on "Engine Number 9," in can-you-top-this tandem with his own greatest hit on "I'm a Midnight Mover." And on "She's Lookin' Good" he matched the ease of "Don't Fight It," which was probably hardest of all. A
>>124475673Oh fuck me. I wanted to use the mono versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byVnIYkxb6E
>>124475648https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nID1YZQsekDionne was always very understated and monotone, very different from Pickett's "HEEYYYEAHHHHHHHHH!!!" singing.
>>124475648Everybody and their grandmother covered Hey Jude in the 18 months after it came out. It became an instant MOR album filler standard.
>>124475673This rules because it's clear he says "Jew" from the very first time. Based Wilson
>>124475794https://secondhandsongs.com/work/1454/versions>Bing Crosby>Ella FitzgeraldHow do you do fellow kids?
>>124475937Ella could sing anything and it'd be nice.
>>124476350This was when she tried doing soul vocals and covering rock material to look more modern and it didn't entirely bake.
>>124476726I actually like what she did with Can't Buy Me Love
