Among the other U.K. artist covers to surface was Billy Fury's "Baby Do You Love Me" (Parlophone 5658; also on U.S. Mala 595), B-side to his 1967 single, "Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt." Fury takes an honest shot but ends up sounding like Bill Murray's "Saturday Night Live" lounge swinger crooning such lines as "Don't you believe../That I'm caught in the tangled web you weave/I know I still can't break away" over a ridiculously glitzy Vegas arrangement. Also covered by British artist Keith Shields on Decca UK.
British white blues artist Duffy Power also cut a Newman cover in 1967, the droll "Davy O'Brien (Leave That Baby Alone)" (Parlophone 5631). Power later recalled wanting to drop the character's name in favor of the parenthetical title so it might stand a better chance commercially; the single promptly disappeared regardless. The song's narrator watches as Davy, a middle-aged letch, dances with a girl "as young as his own sister"; the punchline comes after the narrator offers to protect the "young mother of tomorrow" by taking her home: "You ain't no better than I used to be myself, Dave/Don't think I don't know what's on your mind...and I'm two years older than you." The cover's weakness may have been its odd arrangement (medieval horns?), particularly since Newman's own demo has a catchy ringing quality to it. A far more successful version (with some terrific vocal harmonies) was cut by the U.S. group Saturday's Children on Dunwich -- see 1991 CD compilation Oh Yeah! -- The Best Of Dunwich Records, Sundazed SC11010 in U.S.