Biggest selling Northern Record - Gloria Jones - Tainted Love ??

[Swifty]

Was just wandering actually how many label variants (including boots) there is of this record ? Out of interest just

googled and looked on images and gave up counting after 25 lol ! I know there's no way of knowing how many were

sold of each but if they were added together it must be 100's of thousands do you think ?

 

Cheers

Swifty

[Marty57]

I can remember reading back in 1975 ish proberly in blues & souls that if all the pressing's/ boots sales were put together it would have entered the top ten / pop charts. Perhaps why it's not played much today? Another reason maybe soft cell 's version . Also remember 1st time i heard soft cell i was having a shave at the time allmost cut me throat WTF .

[Winsford Soul]

Soft cell should have there throats cut for ruining a great record. 

Steve 

[Tomangoes]

Must have been a sensation when it first hit the Northern scene. Unique and almost Taylor made for the furious dance floors back then.

Ed

[Swifty]

22 minutes ago, tomangoes said:

Must have been a sensation when it first hit the Northern scene. Unique and almost Taylor made for the furious dance floors back then.

Ed

I bet whoever put a needle to it first thought 'kin 'ell !! lol as you say nearly tailor made for the scene back then

[Steve Foran]

3 hours ago, SWIFTY said:

I bet whoever put a needle to it first thought 'kin 'ell !! lol as you say nearly tailor made for the scene back then

Fairly certain it one of Richard Searlings finds.

[Swifty]

9 minutes ago, Steve Foran said:

Fairly certain it one of Richard Searlings finds.

Steve, do you know if Mr. Soussan  used to supply Richard or was this before that , if you know what I mean ?

 

Swifty

[Mal C]

don't agree Steve, that was one evil cover version by soft cell, and the testitiment to that is it sold millions and folk love it today as they did back then.... it's an awesome song and soft cells version is brilliant in my opinion, I love Gloria's original of course... there are more covers out there, and no one ever remembers those....

It's a Richard Searling spin for sure, he confirmed finding it at house of sounds in the USA and spun it first...

Edited July 31, 2017 by Mal C

[Steve Foran]

2 hours ago, SWIFTY said:

Steve, do you know if Mr. Soussan  used to supply Richard or was this before that , if you know what I mean ?

 

Swifty

Hi mate I don't think RS was on the SS supply list at the time. As far as I know RW was more likely to be on the SS list. Tainted Love was late Va Va's just before WC I think. RS found it whilst rooting around in the US as Mal C says.

[Swifty]

56 minutes ago, Steve Foran said:

Hi mate I don't think RS was on the SS supply list at the time. As far as I know RW was more likely to be on the SS list. Tainted Love was late Va Va's just before WC I think. RS found it whilst rooting around in the US as Mal C says.

[Monny1916]

On the dance floor it was more than a sensation it was a sensational sensation I still feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I think of the the awesome rythmic clapping

[Frankie Crocker]

On 29/07/2017 at 11:27, Winsford Soul said:

Soft cell should have there throats cut for ruining a great record. 

Steve 

Yet this cover version was acclaimed by the unwashed masses as a fantastic, chart-topping tune... Just goes to show how utterly brilliant, yet underappreciated the original version was. Nothing like the Soft Cell version to pack the floor with closet-soulies - request it at your next wedding do, and see what happens.

[Steve S 60]

5 hours ago, FRANKIE CROCKER said:

Yet this cover version was acclaimed by the unwashed masses as a fantastic, chart-topping tune... Just goes to show how utterly brilliant, yet underappreciated the original version was. Nothing like the Soft Cell version to pack the floor with closet-soulies - request it at your next wedding do, and see what happens.

Follow that up with Soft Cell's cover of What to really get the party started, just don't ask for the Marilyn Manson version of Tainted Love unless the bride is wearing black.

[Marty57]

Getting off the original question a bit , but, what about stampeed to dance floor when said record played 73/74 bit like standing outside exit to a tube station at rush hour !