Who wrote tainted love?

[Rmiller3500]

Who orginally wrote the song, "Tainted Love" that Soft Cell covered in the 80's?

[jenstar]

A bloke called Ed Cobb, about whom I know nothing beyond the fact that he wrote "Tainted Love" and (quite deservedly) made an awful lot of money off Soft Cell's version.

[mcmikeymike]

Ed Cobb wrote the song around the mid-60s with early versions by Gloria Jones and Ruth Swan.  The Gloria Jones version is a Northern Soul classic, the most played record at the legendary Wigan Casino.

[Barington]

Gloria Jones also married brit rocker marc boland of t rex fame, his son who grew up in america was totally unaware of his fathers fame untill his early twenties.

[Ray the DJ]

Barington, are you sure of that answer??

[Ray the DJ]

Marc Bolan lived with Gloria Jones but never married.

[magicdice]

"and (quite deservedly) made an awful lot of money off Soft Cell's version"

and my ruin's, and marilyn manson's...