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[ComicMike]

It would never have occurred to me, that 'Tainted Love' wasn't an original song from the 80s. The version by Karsten Kohler is rocky and the original version by Gloria Jones is fast-paced and sounds incredibly fresh and modern.

[profh0011]

As far as I remember, The British Group, Soft Cell recorded the first remake of "Tainted Love" in late 1976 or 1977.  It had become a big hit on The British Northern Soul Club Scene, for a few years and made its way to some offshore pirate radio station, where they heard it, and liked it. 

WOW!  Your post is the kind of thing I love to see.

It's funny, I first heard rockabilly, then I heard another rockabilly, before finding out it was a big hit in "new wave" style.  THEN I found the original, which definitely sounded "Motown".

JUST looked it up on Second Hand Songs... GEEZ!!!!!  They list 206 versions.  Soft Cell is the 4th.  I think it's safe to say they're the ones who made it popular.   

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/646/versions#nav-entity

[The Australian Panther]

Prof, thanks for that link.
Gonna send it on to some music sharing sites I frequent.

Here is Gloria Jones telling the story behind the song.

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViWAVwY7LtU

Danke!

[Robb_K]

Ha!Ha! - even her Motown colleague, Martha Reeves sang "Tainted Love" very late in her career, in 2015!  Her voice wobbled all over the place.  She sounded like Mrs. Miller singing it!     I wonder how she found the time to record that, being Mayor of Detroit at the time?

Here is Gloria's big monster hit, "Heartbeat" (also written and produced by Ed Cobb, from several months later, in 1965:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBIO5uUvItE

Here's the much more "Motownish" "A" side of "Tainted Love", "My Bad Boy's Coming Home:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KYRBNPtsOk

Here's Gloria's 1965 re-make of The Del Vikings' big 1957 hit "Come Go With Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OCNQIAocY

Here's Gloria's most "Motownish" cut, "Run One Flight Of Stairs" also from 1965:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_nNYHveTU

This one was clearly written in 1964, while Ed Cobb was writing songs and producing for Motown, and this was written with The Supremes in mind.  He quit Motown in a dispute over producer credits and producer pay, so he didn't send several songs to Motown's Jobete Music Company for their approval for purchase, and kept them for his own independent productions.  He had his artists, Gloria Jones, Sandy Wynns (AKA Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.

[Captain Audio]

Tough to beat.
"Unchained Melody", the Righteous Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY

[paw broon]

I'm quite taken with the Gloria Jones tracks.  Thanks Robb. I'm not a fan of the Soft Cell version of Tainted Love.  He never sounds quite on key. This one is much more enjoyable.
I'm putting in my tuppence worth here.  Jay and The Americans,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKfASw6qoag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuujYPiTYjw&list=RDIuujYPiTYjw&start_radio=1
And here's the Walker Bros. version, which is good but not quite as exciting as Jay Black's original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-CXkhik9iI
From the first time I heard this next one, I've loved it.  Joey Dee and The Starliters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSCDR5vrVEU

[profh0011]

Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.

Man, I really got you guys started!

When I was in Houston in the summer of '71, "Stick Up" by The Honey Cone was one of the songs played in regular rotation on the radio.  A few years ago, I assembled a CD comp of songs from that year, recreating a cassette my brother had recorded from the radio station KNUZ, including that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKG5Fx4H2tM

[Robb_K]

Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.

Man, I really got you guys started!

When I was in Houston in the summer of '71, "Stick Up" by The Honey Cone was one of the songs played in regular rotation on the radio.  A few years ago, I assembled a CD comp of songs from that year, recreating a cassette my brother had recorded from the radio station KNUZ, including that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKG5Fx4H2tM

I like Edna best as Sandy Wynns - here she is singing another Ed Cobb song, later sung by Brenda's little sister, Patrice Holloway, and also Marvin Gaye - "The Touch of Venus":   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARAVbZZZAw

Here's Edna singing another Ed Cobb song originally written for Motown, but he kept when he left, "Love Belongs To Everyone":   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIUeFdAMVQ

I like the original "This Magic Moment" by The Drifters best:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacBKKgc4Uo

[FraBig]

Here's one of my favourite songs of all time, performed by The Highwaymen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Omtt1xC-o

Plus, a song that fits the weather (at least where I live) from an underrated album (Take Me To Tomorrow) by my favourite musician ever, John Denver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSSZM5i9gk

[The Australian Panther]

This would probably be my favorite Weather song. Very powerful.


John Martyn. Bless The Weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8z1XZu2Nc


Bless The Weather - LIVE 78 - JOHN MARTYN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonNSNB3kxI

[bowers]

 One of my all-time faves has to be an updated old 50's favorite:     
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+sandman+dolly+parton+linda+ronstadt+
Three angelic voices blending perfectly! Cheers, Bowers

[FraBig]

Mr. Sandman by Dolly Parton, amazing!

Speaking of updated songs, here's the super talented Alison Krauss singing a great classic by the legend Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjP7bSEqiV4

[bowers]

AWESOME pick, FraBig! Never heard this one before. Always liked Allison and Union Station. Have you ever seen the George Clooney movie, "O Brother Where Art thou"? Union Station's guitarist/ mandolin player Dan Tyminski sang lead vocal for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", my favorite song in the movie. Cheers, Bowers

[FraBig]

I know that movie, but I've never watched it, it's still in my watchlist! I'm really into old country music, and many people suggested it.
I really like Alison Krauss & Union Station too! I didn't know one of the members sang a song for the soundtrack of that movie!

I'll be sure to watch that movie soon

[ComicMike]

Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat - 1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzwbYyvWiU&ab_channel=hollowmoor

[ComicMike]

Johnny Tillotson - It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' - 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8PYneCf5g&ab_channel=JohnnyTillotson-Topic

[ComicMike]

A Special Version Of An Old Song 

Have Fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYBIKpfQDww&ab_channel=TheRottenEggs-Topic

[profh0011]

I have so many "favorites"... but what's STUCK in my head at any given moment keeps changing.  The last month or so, it's been almost all the songs from the non-LP Moody Blues comp, "PRELUDE"... including "A Simple Game".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Ngeqzr98

[ComicMike]

I occasionally hear new songs that I like. Yesterday I heard this song on a Swiss radio station.

I found practically nothing on the net about 'Twone', it's either a Swiss or French duo (?), consisting of Sandrine Ott (?) and Jean Michel Genin (?).

In any case, a beautiful song. 

Twone - Faim, un peu - 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTnygchT3U&ab_channel=MASQMusic

[paw broon]

Being in the mood for something a bit more exciting I can share this with you:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzRpMHx6Ew
and:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmtwq5F_tU

[The Australian Panther]

Paw, thanks for the RnB. Seminal bands. 
Well, if we are in a retro mood, when I clicked on those links, my Youtube AI loaded the following links, so here are some 60's WestCoast favorites of mine.

It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird - 7/7/1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q918fs4RAto&list=RDEMl8nGP9YS98v00_x89FDbOA&start_radio=1

The Byrds - Eight Miles High - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE

and just for you Paw, from the movie Blow UP
1966 - Yardbirds - Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys

Have a beautiful day!

[bowers]

 Great choices, indeed, Panther! I think I nearly wore out my "It's a Beautiful Day" vinyl before someone swiped it! "White Bird" was sooo mellow and "Hot Summer Nights" was hauntingly beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yoijmlSpg
Saw the "Byrds" twice in my hometown of Spokane Washington, once with "Jefferson Airplane" The  local gendarmes closed down the show during the second encore. (Maybe we were all having too good of a time?) The "Byrds" drummer, Michael Clark was a hometown boy and was given a raucous welcome home!
Saw Page with "Led Zeppelin" in Spokane, 1968 before their first album landed. This was the first time they were recorded live. The local paper advertised them as "Len Zeffelin"!
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/led-zeppelin-captured-live-for-the-first-time-in-spokane-gym
Cheers, Bowers

[ComicMike]

Jolly Boys - Bitter Cassava Killed Joe Brown - 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGKlHYnD9I&ab_channel=1970RudeBoy

The Jolly Boys are a music group from Port Antonio, Jamaica. The band, which was founded in 1945 (!) plays Mento, Jamaica's traditional folk music.

[The Australian Panther]

Comickraut,
Thank you!
You have made my morning!

Right back at you!

Hog Inna Mi Minty - The Jolly Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8rKvVHnJw

THE JOLLY BOYS"Banana"- Live @ SZCZECIN MUSIC FEST 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBT46IJLuY&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=2

The Jolly Boys - Ring of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAh-gxDPMWQ&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=5

The Jolly Boys - Passenger (Iggy Pop) (Live at Sydney Festival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKS0mLzJBA

THE JOLLY BOYS---------Perfect Day [lou reed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hMHEzURkRc&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=3

Cheers!

[ComicMike]

You're welcome  and it's my pleasure to return the compliment, as your selection of Jolly Boy songs is superb.

I really like listening to folk music, world music, especially Irish folk and especially the Dubliners.

Here are the Dubliners with a fairly well known song , in a modern lyrics version, as far as I know, written by the Scottish-Australian songwriter Eric Bogle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kfmlB5LiFc&ab_channel=TheDubliners