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American artist Gloria Jones made the first recording of "Tainted Love" in 1964. Glen Campbell played lead guitar. [4] 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", [5] which was a commercial flop, failing to chart on either the US or the UK.
She recorded the 1965 hit song "Tainted Love" and has worked in multiple genres as a Motown songwriter and recording artist, backing vocalist, and as a performer in musicals such as Hair. In the 1970s, she was a keyboardist and vocalist in Marc Bolan's glam rock band T. Rex. She and Bolan were also in a committed romantic relationship and had a ...
The song's instrumental composition is built around a prominent sample of "Tainted Love", which was originally written by Ed Cobb in 1965 and popularised by English synthpop duo Soft Cell, when they released their cover version in 1981.
After the chart failure of "Memorabilia", Phonogram Records allowed Soft Cell to record a second and final single in an attempt to score a chart success. The band opted to record a cover version of "Tainted Love", an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones (the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death) and written by Ed Cobb of the Four Preps.
Cobb wrote the song "Tainted Love" for Gloria Jones, which Soft Cell reworked into one of the biggest pop hits of the 1980s. [2] He also wrote a number of songs for the American rock band The Standells. He wrote their top ten hit "Dirty Water" and multiple other songs for the band. He is credited for Rihanna’s song “SOS.”
"Panic" and "Tainted Love" are songs recorded by British experimental music band Coil. These were released in 1985 through Some Bizzare in the UK and Wax Trax! Records in the US respectively, as the band's first [ 2 ] [ 3 ] single, [ a ] and the sole one from their 1984 debut studio album, Scatology .
"Tainted" is a song by American hip hop group Slum Village, released on July 2, 2002 as the lead single from their third studio album Trinity (Past, Present and Future) (2002). It features American singer Dwele. Produced by Karriem Riggins, the song contains a sample of "The Jam" by Graham Central Station.
The song "Four Rusted Horses" had an alternate version used in trailers for the video game Fear 3. A remix of the song "Tainted Love" appears in the debut trailer for the 2010 video game, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and in the launch trailer of the 2012 video game Twisted Metal. Manson's song "The Beautiful People" was featured in WWE