This Week’s One-Hit Wonder (OHW) is ‘Tainted Love’ by Soft Cell (#1 1982). ‘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 are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo consisted of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.
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