Keely Smith seen here with her husband Louis Prima was the first to cover Lennon & McCartney songs for an entire album.Following suit was Helen Merrill,Count Basie,the Ramsey Lewis Trio and Ella Fitzgerald.Labels like Atlantic,Warner Brothers and Blue Note issued CDs of their Beatles interpretations
More recently came an American band called BEATLEJAZZ who cut 3 CDs of Beatles music.
Ironically the Beatles themselves were no lovers of jazz!
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