Who is in the song tainted love?

Answer 1

Selected list of recorded versions

1964 Gloria Jones, northern soul

1976 Gloria Jones with Marc Bolan, glam rock

1981-82 Soft Cell, synthpop

1985 Coil, gothic/industrial

1986 Boppin' Kids on the album Go Wild!, Rockabilly

1990s Tainted Cash, rave music

1993 Inspiral Carpets

1990s Jon K, freestyle music

1990s Señor X

1991 Marc Almond (with Soft Cell)

1992 Flying Pickets, a cappella version

1995 Shades Apart, punk Rock on their Save It album

1999 The Living End, rockabilly-punk rock

1996 Bluekilla, skapunk

1998 Atrocity on album Werk 80, industrial metal

1999 Club 69, electro-house remixes

1999 My Ruin, alternative metal

2000 Mark 'Ruff' Ryder - Joy (Strictly Underground Records, Garage)

2000 Wild Strawberries on album Twist

2000 Head Like A Hole on the album Honky Tonk Jukebox

2001 Marilyn Manson, industrial metal, on album Not Another Teen Movie O.S.T. and Lest We Forget: The Best Of Marilyn Manson. Also as a bonus track on The Golden Age of Grotesque

2001 La Unión, on album Rock en español

2003 Anandi, on album Forever Days

2004 The Hormonauts covered the song for their Stayin' Alive single.

2005 The Pussycat Dolls, Pop

2006 Rihanna samples Soft Cell's cover of "Tainted Love" on the single "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" from her 2006 album A Girl Like Me

2006 Milk Inc., Dance

2006 John B, electrostep version

2006 Lil Scrappy samples a very little bit of the song on his song "Money In The Bank" that featured Young Buck

2006 Paul Young, on album Rock Swings - On the wild side of swing Selected list of recorded versions

1964 Gloria Jones, northern soul

1976 Gloria Jones with Marc Bolan, glam rock

1981-82 Soft Cell, synthpop

1985 Coil, gothic/industrial

1986 Boppin' Kids on the album Go Wild!, Rockabilly

1990s Tainted Cash, rave music

1993 Inspiral Carpets

1990s Jon K, freestyle music

1990s Señor X

1991 Marc Almond (with Soft Cell)

1992 Flying Pickets, a cappella version

1995 Shades Apart, punk Rock on their Save It album

1999 The Living End, rockabilly-punk rock

1996 Bluekilla, skapunk

1998 Atrocity on album Werk 80, industrial metal

1999 Club 69, electro-house remixes

1999 My Ruin, alternative metal

2000 Mark 'Ruff' Ryder - Joy (Strictly Underground Records, Garage)

2000 Wild Strawberries on album Twist

2000 Head Like A Hole on the album Honky Tonk Jukebox

2001 Marilyn Manson, industrial metal, on album Not Another Teen Movie O.S.T. and Lest We Forget: The Best Of Marilyn Manson. Also as a bonus track on The Golden Age of Grotesque

2001 La Unión, on album Rock en español

2003 Anandi, on album Forever Days

2004 The Hormonauts covered the song for their Stayin' Alive single.

2005 The Pussycat Dolls, Pop

2006 Rihanna samples Soft Cell's cover of "Tainted Love" on the single "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" from her 2006 album A Girl Like Me

2006 Milk Inc., Dance

2006 John B, electrostep version

2006 Lil Scrappy samples a very little bit of the song on his song "Money In The Bank" that featured Young Buck

2006 Paul Young, on album Rock Swings - On the wild side of swing

Answer 2

The song was written by Ed Cobb, and performed by Gloria Jones for her 1965 single My Bad Boy's Comin' Home. The single and B-Side were both commerical failures until 1973 when it was adopted by UK Northern Soul disco scene. It then became so popular that Jones re-released, again failing to chart.

In 1981 Soft Cell took the song and made the hugely successful cover to the song, it too was not meant to be a main track, and was a melody with another cover, The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go. From there it has been covered by numous bands and groups. These include (as taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_Love);

1965: Gloria Jones, original version

1976: Gloria Jones, on the album Vixen (produced by Marc Bolan)

1981: Soft Cell, on the album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

1985: Coil, on the 12" single Panic/Tainted Love

1992: The Flying Pickets, on the album The Warning

1992: Inspiral Carpets, on the album Ruby Trax

1994: David Benoit, on the album Lost and Found[5]

1995: Shades Apart, on the album Save It

1997: Atrocity, on the album Werk 80

1998: Country Teasers, on the album Back to the Future, or Brideshead Revisited Revisited

1998: The Living End, as a B-side to the single "All Torn Down"

1999: My Ruin, on the album Speak and Destroy

2000: Wild Strawberries, on the album Twist as an unnumbered track

2000: Mark Ruff Ryder sampled Soft Cell's version for his 2-step track Joy.

2001: Marilyn Manson, on the album Not Another Teen Movie Soundtrack

2001: Max Raabe, on the album Superhits Nummer 2

2002: Prozac+, on the album Miodio

2002: Night Shift, on the album Undercovers

2005: The Pussycat Dolls, on the album PCD

2006: Rihanna sampled Soft Cell's version for her third single "SOS"

2006: Milk Inc., on the album Supersized

2006: Alejandra Guzmán, on the soundtrack of the Mexican film "Cansada De Besar Sapos"

2007: Killwhitneydead, on the album Nothing Less Nothing More

2008: Danny Noriega performed the song on American Idol

2008: The Lost Fingers, on the album Lost in the 80s

2009: David Guetta and Akon use similar melody in their song "Sexy Bitch"

2009: My Brightest Diamond, on the album Guilt by Association Vol. 2

2009: The Pigeon Detectives, as a one-off single for the charity "Cash for Kids"

2009: Blackmailers, on the album Contrafact

2010: Flo Rida sampled Soft Cell's version for "Zoosk Girl" (featuring T-Pain)

Answer 3

Gloria Jones recorded the original version of "Tainted Love" in 1965 but this failed to hit the charts, the most well known verision was recorded by Soft Cell with lead singer Marc Almond in 1981.

Answer 4

Gloria Jones - 1965

Answer 5

Marilyn Manson

Answer 6

John Fairy