Neil Diamond reggae covers

[q2222]

What Neil Diamond songs have been covered by reggae artists?

I know of Solitary Man, I Am I Said ("Well I'm Jamaican born and
raised"), Sweet Caroline, Holly Holy and of course Red Red Wine.

Are there versions of You'll Be A Woman Soon, Shiloh, Thank the Lord for
the Night Time, You Got to Me, or Brother Love's Travellin' Salvation
Show? Can anyone give me artists, CD or lp names, or 45 labels?

The covers I've heard work well, much more interesting than the
originals. Any ideas on why they work so well?

Also, what's the fascination in Jamaica with Jim Reeves?

Thanks,

Reggae Novice

[sle...@oanet.com]

In article <362EBA94...@earthlink.net>,

q2...@earthlink.net wrote:
> What Neil Diamond songs have been covered by reggae artists?

Looks like you know more than me about Neil's music, but I have another
question for the RMR massive. Tony Tribe cut a killer version of "Red Red
Wine" in 1970 - is this the version that UB40 based their cover on, or was
there another?

> The covers I've heard work well, much more interesting than the
> originals. Any ideas on why they work so well?

Ol' Neil didn't have enough BASS!

Mick Sleeper

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[Suzanne B Butler]

q2222 <q2...@earthlink.net> wrote in article
<362EBA94...@earthlink.net>...

> What Neil Diamond songs have been covered by reggae artists?

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From: Suzanne B Butler <SBBU...@prodigy.net>
To: q2...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Neil Diamond reggae covers
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 11:51 AM

I am also a big Neil Diamond fan and would appreciate the artist names of
the songs you mentioned. You know that two of Neil's band members are
from
the Caribbean. Vince Charles (steel drums) is from the Virgin Islands and
King Errisson (Congos) is from the Bahamas. But Neil had a strong
Afro/Caribbean influence even before they joined his band around 1974.
The
Taproot Manuscript LP (circa 1970) is an excellent example. Also listen
to
Reggae Strut and The Last Picasso on the Serenade album from 1974. And
Primitive is also very danceable. I have been trying to convince my local
reggae band to do some Neil Diamond covers but they look at me as if I'm
crazy when I suggest it. I have been planning to make them a tape of stuff
mostly from the 60's (thank the lord for the nighttime, cherry cherry, the
boat that i row, and you got to me). Vince Charles has a reggae version of
Sweet Caroline on his CD, soliloquy and King Errisson has a cover of
Mountains of Love on his CD, Man. And of course, Neil covered Don't Turn
Around (Aswad, Ace of Bass) which sounds like an answer to Turn Around from
the Primitive CD (mid 1980's). The first time I heard Junkanoo in the
Bahamas, I got excited thinking Neil Diamond was about to come on stage
and
do Soolaimon. Dancing to Neil and to reggae are very much the same moves.

[r.lam]

Dancing to Neil and to reggae are very much the same moves.

...oh yes? i don't really know much about diamond's music...
**********

[Papa Lee]

These are the Neil Diamond songs I know about:

Red Red Wine - UB40, Tony Tribe, Ken Boothe, Immortals

Holly Holy - John Holt (twice - once for Studio One, once for Prince Buster),
Fabulous Flames

Sweet Caroline - Bunny Clarke

Play Me - Marcia Griffiths and Lloyd Charmers

Soolaimon - John Holt

I Am I Said - Bunny Clarke (produced by Lee Perry)

One Love,
Lee O'Neill

[ma...@dlc.fi]

In article <19981025133533...@ng25.aol.com>,

pap...@aol.com (Papa Lee) wrote:
> These are the Neil Diamond songs I know about:

> Sweet Caroline - Bunny Clarke

Hubert Lee also record this song for Coxsone (Mr. Dodd). Label was Bongo Man
or Money Disc.

Juha Vaahtera
http://www.dlc.fi/~maple/