“baby don’t you like this beat? / i made it so you’d sleep with me”

TIL that The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” and UB40’s “Red Red Wine” have something in common: they were both written by Neil Diamond.

(IAB was day-job work as a Brill Building songwriter, while RRW was written for himself. And no, his version of RRW wasn’t remotely reggae—but it was covered by a Jamaican rocksteady singer, and it was that version that UB40 gave a pop-reggae cover, unaware that the credited N. Diamond wasn’t a local.)

---L.

Subject quote from HOT TO GO!, Chappell Roan.