Wikipedia says: “According to the Guinness Book of Records, “Yesterday” has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone.”

Here are a few famous covers and the original. Which do you like best? Is there a great cover of this song that we missed?

Here’s Paul McCartney playing the original:

Frank Sinatra does Yesterday

Marianne Faithful does Yesterday

Tom Jones does Yesterday

Bob Dylan does Yesterday

- Alive by Pearl Jam
- Pretty Young Thing by Michael Jackson
- Don’t Tell Me by Madonna
- Violet Hill by Coldplay
- Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
- Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton
- Blackbird by The Beatles
- Silent All These Years by Tori Amos
- Staying Alive by The Bee Gees
- Buddy Holly by Weezer
- Fields of Gold by Sting
- Maggie May by Rod Stewart
- Skinny Legs by Lyle Lovett
- Womanizer by Britney Spears (which also makes an appearance on the next playlist: Dancing to Stay Awake)

Everyone’s got their own ideas of what the best sing-along-songs for the car are, and we’d love to know yours. Did we miss something obvious? There are still a lot of miles to go before home!