NEW * Tainted Love - Gloria Jones {Stereo} 1964

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"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synthpop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists.
American artist Gloria Jones made the first recording of "Tainted Love" in 1964; the song was written and produced by Ed Cobb and arranged by Lincoln Mayorga. It was the B-side of her 1965 single "My Bad Boy's Comin' Home", which was a commercial flop, failing to chart in either the US or the UK. According to Nick Talevski, before Jones recorded the song, Cobb had offered it to the Standells, whom he managed and produced, but they rejected it. The Standells say that the song was never offered to them, and that they were not signed to Cobb's company Greengrass Productions until 1966, some two years after Jones's recording.
In 1973, British club DJ Richard Searling purchased a copy of the almost decade-old single while on a trip to the United States. The track's Motown-influenced sound (featuring a fast tempo, horns, electric rhythm guitar and female backing vocals) fit in perfectly with the music favoured by those involved in the UK's Northern soul club scene of the early 1970s, and Searling popularised the song at the Northern soul club Va Va's in Bolton, and later, at Wigan Casino.
Owing to the new-found underground popularity of the song, Jones re-recorded "Tainted Love" in 1976 and released it as a single, but it also failed to chart. This version was released on her album Vixen and was produced by her boyfriend Marc Bolan.
In 2014, NME ranked it number 305 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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smurfstoolsoldiesmusictimemach
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Glen Campbell played the guitar on this recording when he was one of studio musicians collectively known as the wrecking crew.

StringPassion.
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Gloria’s dancers 👯‍♀️ are metal heads 🤟🏻

randywilson
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... and I thought Soft Cell wrote this song. You learn something every day.

jerfacekilla
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This is amazing. I feel like I've just found buried treasure

robertridings
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Wouldn't you love to see pictures of all these people now? It's a reminder that everyone old has a past which we tend to forget when we look at them. These women were the height of cool in the day.

micaelapresti
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Holy sh*t. Mind blown. The cover is burned into my head but to know it was not the original rocked me. It's word for word. Cra-zay.

bw
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Holy crap! I never knew this was the original version. No wonder I liked it so much growing up, it was derived from a 60s hit

benedettogee
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I can't recall ever hearing this version.Always thought it was Soft Cells song.This is cool.👍🇨🇦

KellysClassics
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"Tainted Love"
(originally by Gloria Jones)

Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love

Now I know I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away, you don't really want any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you think love is to pray
But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love

Don't touch me, please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm gonna pack my things and go

Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love (oh)

Touch me, baby, tainted love
Touch me, baby, tainted love
Tainted love (oh)
Tainted love (oh)

Tainted love
Tainted love

josecendejas
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If like me you grew up listening to disco/funk in the 70s then it was possible to hear this version by G. Jones then later seen Soft cell on Top of pops
cover it
But if not into Soul back then you would not lnow
Depends on your musical taste way back then. I of course knew but i do get why not everyone knows. Main thing is listen to this mega track and Dance Dance Dance
Gem
Uk

christinetaylor
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Wow I never knew the Soft Cell version was actually a cover!

artboston
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Just watched Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex on Sky Arts and discovered this! Wow! All these years and most of us never knew eh? 😎

climbatize
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Love it! Back then Ms Jones would have been lip-synching, but she pulls it off. White teens following a beat? Nope. Fun times. Thanks for this!

goblinsnark
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I learned about this original listening to Kult FM in GTAV.

esjr
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This is a cool version too! 😎 Fun to watch all the dancers from "BackintheDay"!

BeatlesGirlKaren
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I've heard the song, but not the artist . I like, it's got a good tune lol. Thank you. ☺🎤🎶🎶💕

sandtalanders
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An absolutely rousing song and I only knew the version from Soft Cell so far! Always a pleasure to watch these videos from the good old days - many thanks Sammy, have a really happy Sunday! Cheers, E.H.

nothingbutoldies
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Learning right now that this was not soft cells song.

veggigoddess
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This is a new treat for me Sammy 16 likes now, nice job buddy!

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