Season 23, Day 3 - "In Vino Veritas"
It's Red week, and today's quiz is inspired by “Red Red Wine.”
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“Red Red Wine”
“Even when we saw the writing credit which said 'N Diamond,' we thought it was a Jamaican artist called Negus Diamond.”
“Red Red Wine” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the British reggae band UB40. A cover of a minor UK chart hit by Jamaican rocksteady singer Tony Tribe, it was originally released in 1983. However, it did not reach the top of the charts in the U.S. until 1988, after UB40 played the song at Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert and a Phoenix radio station put it into rotation. It became extremely popular in the region, spurring the record label to rerelease the track to the American market. And not many people were happier about this turn of events than Neil Diamond, who had first written and recorded the song back in 1967. When performing live, Diamond has often played UB40’s reggae take on “Red Red Wine” rather than his original melancholy ballad. UB40 took its name from an unemployment form (it stands for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40). But don’t call them a one-hit wonder; they actually made it back to the top of the Hot 100 in 1993 with a cover of the Elvis Presley song “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Other reggae songs that reached #1 on the Hot 100 include “I Can See Clearly Now” by Johnny Nash, “Here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze, “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel” by Shaggy, “Get Busy” by Sean Paul, “Beautiful Girls” by Sean Kingston, “Rude” by Magic!, and “Cheerleader” by OMI.