Dawn Penn - "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)"

[Pet Shop Boy]

God I LOVED this. Unlikely smash hit for the ancient reggae singer.

UK: #3
USA: #58

"No no noooo, You don't love me and I know now..."

Pure Summer!

[complex_simplicity21385]

What a HOT reggae track! I still listen to this song...in fact, I have it on a reggae mix CD I made a year ago! FIYAAAH!!

[mst3k]

I have the CD single... I don't love it, but it's good.

[reception]

Here's a clip. Gets lots of airplay here.

[busyboy]

It's a perfect song for a hot, torrid summer afternoon. I always dig it out when July comes and play it occasionally for a few weeks, it's like a ritual...

[WotUNeed]

Oh man, haven't heard this one in forever. Great song!

[Verisimilitude]

Jam! Love how slow her tone is with the reggae beat.

[Live Your Life]

Classic.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Yes, I remember this song!!! My dad used to play this song when I was little. Classic song. Rihanna later covered this song.

[disman00911]

I'm not much of a fan of dancehall/reggae but this is a good song.  I heard it on a 90s R&B internet station that I listened to years back.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

#454 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The apex of forlorn rocksteady balladry, Dawn Penn’s seminal “You Don’t Love Me” harnessed the ’90s Stateside dancehall boom and turned that energy into a cutting breakup anthem so sharp that even Beyoncé and Rihanna have delivered their own renditions over the years.

Who Put the Bomp: Bo Diddley. Penn’s track is a redo of Willie Cobbs’ “You Don’t Love Me,” which, in turn, heavily borrows elements of Diddley’s “She’s Fine, She’s Mine” (1955).

The Sun Always Shines on T.V.: During the first episode of the first season of Big Little Lies, “You Don’t Love Me” plays softly in the background as Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) and Nathan (James Tupper) converse after a yoga class — a sly allusion to the show’s overarching theme of performative love that everyone operates under but never names