Tainted Love Again

[Guest Noggin]

Sorry if this has already been discussed but I did try searching. 

Obviously, an original and even 2nd pressing of Tainted Love is quite expensive, so if I wanted it just for listening pleasure, what should I buy? Would a Champion boot or one of the other labels have the best sound quality?

 

thanks in advance.

[Mal C]

Original isn't that expensive is it? sure you could find a Champion one pretty cheap, quality wise always go for the one thats been licensed properly, they will on the whole have access to the masters/tapes etc.. boots generally dubbed from records I guess...and sound like it..

 

 

here's a good one, both sides: https://www.ebay.com/itm/GLORIA-JONES-Tainted-Love-SANDY-WYNNS-A-Touch-Of-Venus-Northern-Soul-7-45-/181534302717?pt=UK_Records&hash=item2a4449a1fd

 

chap that did it is on here in fact....so I'm sure he can vouch for the sound quality...

 

Mal

Edited September 26, 2014 by Mal C

[Guest Noggin]

Cheers Mal. The geunine Champion pressings I have seen (2nd press) are around £50 which is too expensive for me. 

[Tobytyke]

there was a tainted love/ come go with me. released for this years record store day. sound quality excellent and cheap. Could be worth seeking out.

[Guest Noggin]

Thanks Toby, sounds perfect.

[Neil Rushton]

We mastered the Inferno release from a "Tainted Love" mixdown master tape sent over from AVI Records (who owned Champion) in LA and it was crystal clear. They also sent as a bonus a tape of Gloria's version of "A Touch Of Venus", done in the mid 60's, not the later re-record. Halfway through Gloria's starts giggling and the track grinds to a halt. Unfortunately the tapes went missing from a studio in Brownhills, near Walsall around 1981. But the Inferno single is superb sound quality.