Artist:Dawn Penn
Song:You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Album:No, No, No
\Jamaican singer Dawn Penn first covered the R&B classic You Don't Love Me in 1967. After leaving the music business in the 70s, she returned in the 90s to score a worldwide hit with a Dancehall version of the same song. She was born Jan. 11, 1952 in Kingston, Jamaica. She recorded a few singles at Studio One with producer Coxsone Dodd. You Don't Love Me was released in 1967. The song was written and recorded in 1960 by Willie Cobbs. When it was claimed that the song was based on Bo Diddley's 1955 song She's Fine, She's Mine, Diddley got a songwriting credit. Dawn added some elements for her version so she got a songwriting credit too. That record was a hit in Jamaica and so was Dawn's reggae cover of To Sir, With Love. Dawn then quit the music business and moved to the Virgin Islands. She worked office jobs there. After performing You Don't Love Me with Dancehall producers Steely & Clevie (Wycliffe Johnson & Cleveland Browne) backing her up at a 1992 Studio One anniversary show, they asked her to record You Don't Love Me for a Studio One tribute album they were producing. When You Don't Love Me got radio play in England, Sly Dunbar got Dawn a record deal at Atlantic's Big Beat label. Dawn's very first album No, No, No was released in 1994. Steely & Clevie produced most of the album. Dunbar was among the producers who helped out. You Don't Love Me charted worldwide. It reached #3 on the British Singles chart and it reached #58 on the Billboard Hot 100. So it did well for a surprise hit single. The record has been sampled by Eve and Ghostface Killah among others and Beyonce covered it in 2019. Dawn has since released three albums and she performed You Don't Love Me on the 2013 BET Awards broadcast. Here's the video for You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) by Dawn Penn.
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