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* 12 Bar Blues (Jack Butwell - NRBQ also sometimes turns this into the "11 Bar Blues")
* All By Myself (Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Burnette & the Rock 'n' Roll Trio)
* All Mama's Children (Carl Perkins)
* Baby Be Mine (The Davis Sisters)
* Batman theme (Neal Hefti)
* Be My Love (Mario Lanza, Sammy Cahn)
* Beautiful Sunday (Daniel Boone)
* Blues Stay Away from Me (The Delmore Brothers, Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, etc.)
* Bonanza theme (Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
* Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
* Bugler's Holiday (Leroy Anderson)
* Bye-Ya (Thelonious Monk)
* C'mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran)
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| - The following songs were originally performed by other artists, but have been covered by NRBQ or its members.
* 12 Bar Blues (Jack Butwell - NRBQ also sometimes turns this into the "11 Bar Blues")
* All By Myself (Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Burnette & the Rock 'n' Roll Trio)
* All Mama's Children (Carl Perkins)
* Baby Be Mine (The Davis Sisters)
* Batman theme (Neal Hefti)
* Be My Love (Mario Lanza, Sammy Cahn)
* Beautiful Sunday (Daniel Boone)
* Blues Stay Away from Me (The Delmore Brothers, Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, etc.)
* Bonanza theme (Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
* Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
* Bugler's Holiday (Leroy Anderson)
* Bye-Ya (Thelonious Monk)
* C'mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran)
* C'mon If You're Comin' (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
* Caroline, No (The Beach Boys)
* Chicken Hearted (Roy Orbison)
* Come On, Let's Go (Ritchie Valens)
* Come Softly To Me (The Fleetwoods)
* Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie (The Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra & His Arkestra)
* Derby Town (The Clovers, traditional)
* Didn't It (The Drifters)
* Dig (Nervous Norvus)
* Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave (Charlie Rich)
* Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
* Escape (The Piña Colada Song) (Rupert Holmes)
* Everlovin' (The Davis Sisters)
* Feels So Good (Chuck Mangione)
* There Is A Mountain (Donovan)
* Get a Job (The Silhouettes)
* Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash)
* God Bless Us All (The Four Lads)
* God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
* Hello, Dolly! (Louis Armstrong)
* Hey! Baby (Bruce Channel)
* Hey, Doll Baby (The Clovers, The Everly Brothers)
* Hold Me Tight (The Beatles)
* Holy Cow (Lee Dorsey)
* Honey Hush (Big Joe Turner, Johnny Burnette & the Rock 'n' Roll Trio)
* Humph (Thelonious Monk)
* I Feel Good (Shirley & Lee)
* I Got A Rocket In My Pocket (Jimmy Lloyd)
* I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)
* In the Mood (Glenn Miller & His Orch.)
* In The Still Of The Nite (The Five Satins)
* In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk)
* Instant Karma! (John Lennon)
* It Was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra)
* It's a Sin To Tell a Lie (Fats Waller & His Rhythm)
* It's All Right (Solomon Burke)
* It's The Girl Who Gets The Blame (The Davis Sisters)
* I've Got a Tiger By The Tail (Buck Owens)
* Java (Al Hirt, Allen Toussaint)
* Jimmy Crack Corn (Big Bill Broonzy, The Sons of the Pioneers, Pete Seeger, Traditional)
* Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
* Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) (John Fred & His Playboy Band)
* Jump Man Jump (Piano Red)
* Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel)
* Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers)
* Let's Make Love Not War (Charles Wright)
* Little Rootie Tootie (Thelonious Monk)
* Little Liza Jane (Traditional)
* Lucille (Little Richard, The Everly Brothers)
* Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (The Beatles)
* May Tomorrow Be a Perfect Day (Donny & Marie)
* Michael, Row The Boat Ashore (The Highwaymen, Lonnie Donegan, The Weavers, Harry Belafonte; traditional slave song)
* Misty (Erroll Garner, Johnny Mathis)
* Monday, Monday (The Mamas & The Papas)
* Mule In The Corn (Jad Fair)
* Music Goes 'Round and 'Round, The (competing versions: The Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong & His Orch., Frank Froeba & His Swing Bang, Hal Kemp & His Orch. Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven [Edythe Wright, vocal] )
* My Sharona (The Knack)
* New York, New York (Frank Sinatra, originally Liza Minnelli)
* Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The (The Band)
* Norman (Sue Thompson - NRBQ performed this as "Norma")
* North To Alaska (Johnny Horton)
* Ode to Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry)
* Palisades Park (Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon)
* Paris (Moondog)
* People (Barbra Streisand)
* Petticoat Junction theme (Curt Massey)
* Qué Rico El Mambo (aka Mambo Jambo) (Pérez Prado)
* Quiet Village (Les Baxter)
* Rains Came, The (Sir Douglas Quintet)
* Ramrod (Al Casey)
* Remember Your Name and Address (Tiny Tim and others)
* Right or Wrong (Milton Brown)
* Right String But The Wrong Yo-Yo (Piano Red)
* Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus (Sun Ra & His Arkestra)
* Rockin' in Rhythm (Duke Ellington & His Orch.)
* Rollin' (In My Sweet Baby's Arms) (Traditional)
* Ruby, My Dear (Thelonious Monk)
* Same Old Thing (Joe Williams)
* Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (Harry Belafonte, The Browns, many others)
* Shake, Rattle And Roll (Big Joe Turner)
* Shop Around (The Miracles)
* Sitting in the Park (Billy Stewart)
* Sleep Walk (Santo & Johnny)
* South (original instrumental: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch., redone by Piano Red; vocal version: Ray Charles)
* Spinning Wheel / And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
* S'posin' (Fats Waller & His Rhythm)
* Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
* Sure To Fall (Carl Perkins)
* Tenderly (Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, many others)
* That Lucky Old Sun (Frankie Laine)
* That"ll Be The Day (Buddy Holly)
* That's All (Etta James)
* The End Of The World (Skeeter Davis)
* Thelonious (Thelonious Monk)
* There Is A Mountain (Donovan)
* There Should Be A Book (Lee Dorsey)
* There's a Kind of Hush (All Over The World) (Herman's Hermits)
* There's a Tear In My Beer (Hank Williams)
* Things We Like To Do (The Chipmunks, under the original title "Chipmunk Fun")
* This Boy (The Beatles)
* This Old House (Rosemary Clooney)
* Three Hundred Pounds of Joy (Howlin' Wolf)
* Time And Place (Floyd Dixon)
* Tom Dooley (The Kingston Trio)
* Tonight You Belong To Me (Patience & Prudence)
* Too Much (Elvis Presley)
* Tweedle Dee (LaVern Baker)
* Twist and Shout (The Isley Brothers, The Beatles)
* Volare (Dean Martin, Domenico Modugno)
* We Travel The Spaceways (Sun Ra & His Arkestra)
* Welcome Back (John Sebastian)
* What Does It Take (To Win Your Love For Me)? (Junior Walker & His All-Stars)
* When Will I Be Loved? (The Everly Brothers)
* Whistle While You Work (Snow White [Adriana Caselotti] & the Seven Dwarfs)
* White Horse (Laid Back)
* White Lightning (George Jones)
* Wild Weekend (The Rockin' Rebels - NRBQ added lyrics and a bridge to create "It's a Wild Weekend")
* Won't You Come Over To My House? (Irving Gillette [aka Henry Burr], released in 1906 on an Edison cylinder! though Al Anderson told one fan he thought NRBQ had learned it from a children's record)
* Woolly Bully (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
* Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)
* Wham! (Lonnie Mack)
* Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames)
* Yesterday (The Beatles)
* You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (The Lovin' Spoonful)
* You Gotta Be Loose (Wailin' Bill Dell)
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