Tainted Love Song

No frills no remix just the song as originally released by soft cell with a jpg of the album art.

Tainted love song. Tainted love soft cell lyrics. Hope you enjoy singing to the music. Jones song was a b side to my bad boy s comin home a motown single that flopped. 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.

Soft cell s record label chose to release tainted love on july 7 1981 as the band s second single their first was memorabilia which did not. Soft cell s 1981 synth pop hit tainted love is a remake of a 1964 gloria jones song. Tainted love composed by ed cobb and firstsung by gloria jones attained worldwide fame after being covered by soft cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous other groups and artists. Buoyed by the then dominant synth pop new wave sound of the time and a memorable.