Lady Madonna - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Fats Domino covered the song in 1968. McCartney says he may have told record producer Richard Perry that it was "based on Fats," leading to Domino's version.
• Gary Puckett and the Union Gap did a cover version of the song on their 1968 album, Young Girl.
• Romanian band Phoenix performed this song on their first EP, Vremuri ("Old times", 1968), because the Electrecord studios did not trust the sales success of the band's own songs ("Vremuri" and "Canarul"). This was a common practice in communist countries and the predominant way western music was reaching there officially.
• Paul Mauriat performed an instrumental version of the song on his 1968 album Rain and Tears.
• Cal Tjader performed this song on the album Cal Tjader Plugs In (1969) with a cool jazz approach.
• Richie Havens covered the song in 1969 on his album Richard P. Havens, 1983.
• Elvis Presley covered the song in 1971.
• Caetano Veloso covered the song in his 1975 album Qualquer Coisa.
• Buck Owens covered the song in his 1976 album Buck 'Em.
• Øystein Sunde's song "Onkel'n til Per-Erik" on his 1976 album På sangens vinger uses the melody of Lady Madonna with Norwegian lyrics unrelated to the original song.
• A cover version of the song performed by Aretha Franklin was used as the theme song for the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire from 1993 until 1996. The syndicated run of the series used the 1996-98 opening as its theme song.
• Rajaton released an a cappella cover version in their 2001 album Boundless and later also in Out of Bounds.
• Assembly of Dust perform the song on their 2011 live album Found Sound.
• The arcade Bomb Jack, which was released in 1984 by Tehkan (known today as Tecmo), features the song during round 2 of game play.