"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" by Urge Overkill

 Of all the cover songs that Mrs. Mia Wallace has danced around to while overdosing on heroin, Chicago, Illinois band Urge Overkill's toy piano-laden version of New York City songwriter Neil Diamond's 1967 single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" is by far my favorite.

Speaking of girls becoming women soon, now seems as good a time as any to gently remind everyone that nearly a million dollars have been spent thus far for FBI agents to work late nights and overtime in redacting the Epstein Files.

Gee, I wonder which name required a cumulative 4,700 + hours to scrub from those reports?

Release the files in full and without redactions, you cowardly fascist scumbuckets.

For more Diamond covers, the Wychwood version of "Cracklin' Rosie" can be found here, and the UB40 version of "Holly Holy" can be found here.

For a cover by Neil Diamond, his version of "Monday, Monday" can be found here.

"Cracklin' Rosie" by Wychwood

 

Happy birthday to my younger sister!

She's always had an affinity for the dynamic 1970 soft rock song "Cracklin' Rosie" by Neil Diamond, which is also in my top twelve or so songs that's presumably about hookers.

Here's obscure as all hell London, UK folk band Wychwood with their countrified take on the classic.

For another cover of Diamond, UB40's version of "Holly Holy" can be found here.

For a cover by Neil Diamond, his version of "Monday. Monday" can be found here.

"Holly Holy" by UB40

 

Neil Diamond's 1969 gospel infused single "Holly Holy" was reworked in a dub reggae style by Birmingham, UK rags to riches group UB40.

UB40 derived their name from an unemployment benefits form used in England, as the eight founding members of the band were all state dependents prior to their meteoric rise to stardom.

They were aided in this journey to fame on the strength of a few cover songs.... the most popular being another from Neil Diamond, their 1983 version of "Red, Red Wine."

For a cover by Neil Diamond, his version of "Monday, Monday" can be found here.

"Monday, Monday" by Neil Diamond

 

Highly prolific New York City, New York singer songwriter Neil Diamond earned a spot in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984.  (Just a couple of years after the release of "Heartlight" for the E.T. soundtrack.)

But, as a fledgling artist in the mid '60s, he had to develop those wings by covering other artists, among them Los Angeles, California folk vocal group The Mamas and The Papas.

On this Monday morning, here is his 1966 version of their sunshine pop single "Monday, Monday."