The Beatnix - It's Four You (19 Lennon & McCartney Songs The Beatles Gave Away) (1995)

The Beatnix' It's Four You is the work of painstaking archivists who gathered all 19 Lennon/McCartney compositions that were given to other artists (like P.J. Proby, Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, Peter & Gordon, etc.) and never recorded for Beatles albums. The Beatnix perform these songs faithfully, in a strongly Beatlesque style that crosses the line from influence into imitation. But that's the point of the album -- giving power-pop fans a chance to hear what these songs probably would have sounded like had the Beatles kept them -- and in that sense, it accomplishes exactly what it set out to do.