Soon after, program director Guy Zapoleon of Phoenix-based KZZP placed the full version, including Astro's "rap", on the station's playlist, and it soon became the station's most popular song. In 1988, UB40 performed the song at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1983 and No. The UB40 version adds a toasted verse by Astro, opening: "Red Red Wine, you make me feel so fine/You keep me rocking all of the time," which was edited from the single that reached No. UB40's version features a lighter, reggae-style flavor compared to that of Diamond's somber, acoustic ballad. Astro told the Financial Times, "Even when we saw the writing credit which said 'N Diamond,' we thought it was a Jamaican artist called Negus Diamond." According to UB40 member Astro, the group's former vocalist and trumpet player, the band were only familiar with Tony Tribe's version and did not realize that the writer and original singer was Neil Diamond. UB40 recorded a version of "Red Red Wine" for their album of cover versions, Labour of Love. Vic Dana's cover became his last Hot 100 hit, peaking at No.It became Trojan Records' first chart hit. Jamaican-born singer Tony Tribe recorded a reggae version of the song in 1969 that reached No.In 1968, Dutch singer Peter Tetteroo (from the band Tee-Set) had a hit with a version that reached No.Several artists covered the song shortly after Diamond's recording was released: A review of the original 1996 release of this box set show Diamond also released a live version on Hot August Night (but not as a single.) However, according to the liner notes in the booklet included in the 1996 box set In My Lifetime, the version of "Red Red Wine" erroneously indicates it is “from Bang single 556” but it is really the original, non-overdubbed mono album master of the track. Billboard described the single as a "compelling, original folk-flavored ballad." Cash Box called it a "softie featuring a melancholy tale by a figure drowning his sorrow" with "dramatic vocal performance in a neatly styled arrangement." Ī live version was released on Diamond's The Greatest Hits (1966–92), but the 1968 single version has never been issued on a vinyl album or CD. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. For the "Red Red Wine" single, Bang added a background choir without Diamond's involvement or permission. When Diamond left the Bang Records label in 1968, the label continued to release his singles, often adding newly recorded instruments and background vocals to album tracks from his two albums for Bang. It was rereleased in 1988 and went to No. 1 in the UK and was moderately successful in the United States. UB40 recorded a cover version in 1983 that went to No. The lyrics are written from the perspective of a person who finds that drinking red wine is the only way to forget his woes. " Red Red Wine" is a song originally written, performed and recorded by American singer Neil Diamond in 1967 that appears on his second studio album, Just for You.
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