When was tainted love first released

To date, Soft Cell's Tainted Love has sold more than 1. It still gets plenty of love in - last week it was streamed over half a million times. View privacy policy. American artist Gloria Jones recorded the original version of "Tainted Love" in ; the song was written and produced by Ed Cobb and arranged by Lincoln Mayorga.

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 , some two years after Jones's recording. 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 s, 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 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. English vocal-and-synth duo Soft Cell became aware of the song through its status as a UK " Northern soul " hit.

In , DJ Ian "Frank" Dewhirst recalled he put "Tainted Love" on when Marc Almond, the duo's singer who worked as a cloakroom guy, came to ask if it was Jones' recording, before asking to tape it.

Some time after, Soft Cell began performing the song in their live setlist, choosing it instead of Frankie Valli 's " The Night ". There, Soft Cell's version was recorded in a day and a half with Almond's first vocal take being used on the record. It was good for the dance floor, but I didn't like the record The Soft Cell recording features a slower tempo than Jones' version and is in the key of G rather than the original C to match Marc Almond's lower voice.

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