Various members of the nrbq-news internet mailing list recently began a discussion about the numerous cover songs NRBQ has performed over the course of their career. Before too long, the list began to take on a life of its own. We think we've got a healthy list here but as with anything 'Q' related, the unknown is a given.
The list below represents the group effort as of 2/5/01. Notice, there is also a submission form so that if you think of a song that has not made it to the list yet or you can help to identify a song's writer, we'd love for you to add it. PLEASE check the list BEFORE you make your submission!! Tthe list below is a testament to the unbelievable musicality of the NRBQ. Just take a look for yourself.
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12 Bar Blues: Jack Butwell
1-2-3: Len Barry
300 Pounds of Joy: Howlin' Wolf
Accentuate the Positive: Johnny Mercer
Achey Breaky Heart: Billy Ray Cyrus
Ain't It Good
Ain't Nice to Talk Like That: Carlisles
Ain't She Sweet: ????
All By Myself: Rock 'n Roll Trio
All Is Fair (When You Gamble With Love)
All Mama's Children: Carl Perkins
All That Is Left Is to say Goodbye: ????
Alone Again (Naturally): Gilbert O'Sullivan
Angel Baby: Rosie & the Originals
Arrivederci, Roma
Away In The Manger
Baby Be Mine: Davis Sisters
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-lues Are ( aka Bolivar Blues): Thelonious Monk
Bargains: ????
Batman Theme: Neil Hefti
Beautiful Sunday: Daniel Boone
Bemsha Swing: Thelonious Monk
Big Hurt: Toni Fisher
Blue Monk: Thelonious Monk
Blue Rondo a la Turk: Dave Brubeck
Blues Stay Away From Me: Rock 'n Roll Trio
Bonanza theme: ????
Boppin' The Blues
Bye Bye Love: Everly Brothers
Bye-Ya: Thelonious Monk
C'mon Everybody: Eddie Cochran
C'mon If You're Comin: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee
California Dreaming: Mamas & Papas
Call Me: Petula Clark
Can you Hear Me: Lee Dorsey
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles
Cecilia: Jimmy Durante
Chicken Hearted: Roy Orbison
Christmastime is Here (Charlie Brown Christmas): Vince Guaraldi
Come On Let's Go: Ritchie Valens
Con Alma
Daddy Gonna Tell You No Lies: Cosmic Rays
Daddy-O
Daddy Loves Mommy-O
Daddy's Home: Shep and The Limelighters
Dedicated Follower of Fashion: Kinks
Deep In the Heart of Texas: Andy Starr
Derbytown
Diddley Daddy: Bo Diddley
Didn't It: Drifters
Dig Nervous: Norvous
Do-Wa-Diddy
Double Shot of My Baby's Love: Swinging Medalions
Down at the Zoo: ???? (Meters- Dey All Asked For You)
Down In My Heart: ????
Dragnet theme: ????
Drinkin Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee: Sticks McGee
Duke of Earl: Gene Chandler
Dummy Song: Louis Armstrong?
Escape ( the Pina Colada Song): Rupert Holmes
Everlovin': Davis Sisters
Everybody Loves Somebody ( karaoke): Dean Martin
Fate In a Pleasant Mood: Sun Ra
Finger Poppin' Time: Hank Ballard
Get A Job: Silhouettes
Get On the Right Track Baby: Ray Charles
Get Rhythm: Johnny Cash
Ghost Albert: Ayler
Ghost Riders In the sky: ????
Girls Are Made To Love: Everly Brothers
Girls Girls Girls: Elvis Presley
God Bless Us All
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Gonna Get Along Without You Now: Skeeter Davis
Good Good Lovin': James Brown
Goofus
Gotta Be Loose: ????
Great Balls of Fire: Jerry "the killer" Lee Lewis
Grown Up Wrong: Rolling Stones
Hanky Panky: Tommy James & the Shondells
Hearts of Stone: Jewels
Here Comes the Whistleman: Roland Kirk
Hey Baby: Bruce Channel
Hey Doll Baby: Everly Brothers
Hey Good lookin': Hank Williams
Hold Me Tight: Beatles
Holy Cow: Lee Dorsey
Homeward Bound: Simon & Garfunkel
Honeyhush: Big Joe Turner
Huggin' Bug
Hush Oh Hush: Roosevelt Sykes
I Feel Good: Shirley & Lee
I Found A Love: Falcons
I Get the Blues When It Rains: Buster Brown
I Just Called To Say I Love You (karaoke)
I Love Lucy Theme: Adamson/Daniel
I Love You Only
I Mean You: Thelonious Monk
I Think We're Alone Now: Tommy James & The Shondells
I Tried: Mickey Rooney
I Want To Know (I Just Got To Know)
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: ????
I Write the Songs: Barry Manilow (written by Bruce Johnston)
I'll Be Forever Loving You: The El Dorados
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter: Fats Waller?
I'm Sorry
In the Mood: Glen Miller
In Walked Bud: Thelonious Monk
It's A Sin to Tell A Lie: Fats Waller
It's All In the Game: Tommy Edwards
It's Not Unusual: Tom Jones
It's The End Of The World: Skeeter Davis
Jamaica Farewell: Harry Belafonte
James Bond Theme
Java: Allan Toussaint
Jimmy Crack-Corn: ????
Johnny B. Goode: Chuck Berry
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Jump Man Jump: Piano Red
Just the Way you Are (karaoke): Billy Joel
Just to Hold My Hand: Paul Perryman
Knock Three Times: Tony Orlando & Dawn
Le Ronde Suite: Modern Jazz Quartet
Leavin' It All Up To You: Don & Dewey
Let It Be Me: Everly Brothers
Let the Good Times Roll: Shirley & Lee
Let's Go Get Stoned: Ray Charles
Let's Make Love ( Not War): Charles Wright
Life Gets Tee-jus, Don't It?: Tex Williams or Walter Brennan
Limbo Rock: ????
Little Liza Jane: Huey Smith & the Clowns
Little Rootie Tootie: Thelonious Monk
Louie Louie
Love Me Tender: Elvis Presley
Lucille: Little Richard
Made to Love: Everly Brothers
Mambo Jambo: Perez Prado
Mare Take Me Home: Wildweeds
May Tomorrow Be A Perfect Day: Donnie & Marie
May You Never Be Alone: Hank Williiams, Sr.
Michael Row the Boat: Brothers Four
Misty: Erroll Garner
Monday Monday: Mamas & Papas
Money (That's What I Want): Barrett Strong
More On Ode to Billie Jo: Teri & the MSR Singers
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
Mule In the Corn: Jad Fair
Music Goes Round and Around: Tommy Dorsey
Music Music Music: Teresa Brewer
Mustang Sally: Wilson Pickett
My Baby Came Back: Louvin Brothers
My Blue Heaven: Fats Domino
My Girl: Temptations
My Heart Cries For You
My Hometown: Bea Taylor / Clara Edwards
My Old Kentucky Home
Mysterioso: Thelonious Monk
North To Alaska: Johnny Horton
Oh Lonesome Me: Don Gibson
One for the Road: Frank Sinatra
One-Sided Love Affair: Elvis Presley
Only You: The Platters
Our Day Will Come: Ruby & the Romantics
Over the Hill: Mickey Rooney?
Palisades Park: ????
Pannonica: Thelonious Monk
Paris: Moondog
People: Barbra Streisand
Petticoat Junction: ????
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: Fats Waller
Precious Memories: ????
Ramrod: Duane Eddy
Rats In My Room
Redman: Charlie Rich
Reeling In The Years: Steely Dan
Remember Your Name & Address: ????
Right or Wrong: Bob Wills?
Right String Wrong Yo Yo: Piano Red ,Carl Perkins
Rip It Up: Little Richard
Rocket #9: Sun Ra
Rocket In My Pocket: Jimmy Lloyd
Rockin' in Rhythm: Duke Ellington
Ruby My Dear: Thelonious Monk
S'posin': Fats Waller
Same Old Thing: Sherlie Matthews
Scarlet Ribbons: Wayne Newton ( on Bonanza), Les Paul & Mary Ford, the Browns, Brothers Four
Sea Cruise: Frankie Ford
Shake Rattle & Roll: Big Joe Turner
Shake That Thing: ????
Shimmy Like Kate: The Olympics
Simpson's Theme: Danny Elfman
Sink the Bismark: Johnny Horton
Sitting In the Park: Billy Stewart
Skip To My Lou: Bonanza cast !!!
Sleepwalk: Santo & Johnny
Slow Poke
Sonnymoon for Two
Sorry Charlie: Carl Perkins
South: Piano Red
Speedo: Cadillacs
Spinning Wheel / And When I Die: Blood Sweat & Tears
St. Thomas: Sonny Rollins
Step Aside: Carl Perkins
Sticks & Stones Ray Charles
Streets of Laredo: Marty Robbins
Such a Night: Dr. John
Suite Judy Blue Eyes: Crosby, Still, Nash
Summertime Summertime: Jamies
Sure to Fall: Carl Perkins
Swingin' The Alphabet: The 3 Stooges
Take This Hurt Off Me: Don Covay
Tear In My Beer: Hank Williams
Teenager In Love: Dion
Tenderly
Tennessee: Carl Perkins
Thanks For the Memories: Bob Hope
That's All: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ruth Brown
The College Crowd: Abner Jay
The Entertainer
The In Crowd: Ramsey Lewis
The Twist
There Should Be a Book: Lee Dorsey
There's A Kind of Hush: Herman's Hermits
Things Are Getting Better: Cannonball Aderley
Things We Like to Do: Chipmunks
This Boy: Beatles
This Guy's In Love With You: Bert Bacharach
This Here: Cannonball Aderley
This Old House: Rosemary Clooney
Tiger By the Tail: Buck Owens?
Time & Place: ????
Tom Dooley: Kingston Trio
Tonight You Belong to Me: Patience & Prudence
Too Much: Elvis Presley
Twist & Shout: Isley Bros., Beatles
Two Bass Hit: Dizzy Gillespie
Two Sides To Every Story
Volare
Venus: Frankie Avalon
We Got A Party Tonight: Party Boys
We Travel the Spaceways: Sun Ra
Welcome Back (Theme from Welcome Back, Kotter): John Sebastian
Well Oh Well: Tiny Bradshaw
Well You Needn't: Thelonious Monk
Wham: Lonnie Mack
When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along: Al Jolson
When Will I Be Loved: Everly Brothers
Whistle While you Work: Seven Dwarves
White Lightnin': George Jones
Whiter Shade Of Pale (Instrumental Version)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: ????
Who's On First: Abbott & Costello
Why: Lonnie Mack
Wild Weekend: Rockin' Rebels
Wichita Lineman: Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell
Woman With a Shovel: Jack Butwell
Won't you Come Over to My House: ????
Wooly Bully: Sam the Sam & the Pharoahs
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Gordon Lightfoot
Yeah Yeah: Georgie Fame
You & I & George: ????
You Can't Judge A Book By Looking at the Cover: Bo Diddley
You're So Beautiful: Charles Wright
You're So Fine: Hank Ballard?
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