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Dave Ball, one half of TAINTED LOVE hitmakers Soft Cell, dies, aged 66
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| Oct 23
| Sky News
Posted on 10/23/2025 6:48:41 AM PDT by RandFan
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RIP
Who remembers their hit from the 80s, then?
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posted on
10/23/2025 6:48:41 AM PDT
by
RandFan
To: RandFan
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posted on
10/23/2025 6:50:49 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: RandFan
RIP Mr. Ball, but now I’m going to have that tune in my head all day.
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posted on
10/23/2025 6:52:51 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: HombreSecreto
Good memory
40 odd years ago. Crazy.
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posted on
10/23/2025 6:53:04 AM PDT
by
RandFan
To: DallasBiff
I had to capitalize it. Seemed appropriate
And yeah it was catchy
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posted on
10/23/2025 6:57:26 AM PDT
by
RandFan
To: DallasBiff
I can only hear Dan Akroyd singing it as a conehead…
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:00:37 AM PDT
by
Skywise
To: RandFan
Condolences to family and friends of David Ball.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:01:38 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: All
One of the most horribly overplayed songs of the 1980’s.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:02:36 AM PDT
by
MplsSteve
To: RandFan
"Tainted Love" was composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of the Four Preps, and was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH4yq-goqiA&list=RDEH4yq-goqiA&start_radio=1
Almost twenty years later, Soft Cell did a great cover of it.
To: Skywise
I can only hear Dan Akroyd singing it as a conehead…I'd rather have his version as an earworm than the original.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:17:31 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: T.B. Yoits
Wow! That Gloria Jones version is great.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:22:22 AM PDT
by
sevlex
To: T.B. Yoits
Wow! That Gloria Jones version is great.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:22:41 AM PDT
by
sevlex
To: RandFan
One of my favorites from that genre. RIP.
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:34:43 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(We are all Charlie Kirk now)
To: RandFan
I’m not one to start threads (let other FReepers do that!)
But a cool thread would be, “Name cool 80s one hit wonders!”
This song would be one.
Another couple of nice one hits would be:
Ship of Fools - World Party
Welcome to the Boomtown - David and David
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:34:57 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: MplsSteve
One of the most horribly overplayed songs of the 1980’Add "Amy" to that list
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:35:39 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Keep buggering on!)
To: RandFan
The song was not written by them. It was released in 1964 in the U. A. written by Edward Cobb and sung by Gloria Jones as a pseudo Motown track. In the late sixties and seventies it was very popular in the UK even though it had never been a big hit originally. Jones even re-released it in about ‘76 in the UK, so even re-released it in about 76 while she was dating Mark Bolan from T-Rex.
To: RandFan
Apparently Dave Ball was grossly overweight.
To: RandFan
To: llevrok
To: nickcarraway
PPL, “Amie”
Meh... whatchya gonna do?
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posted on
10/23/2025 7:50:48 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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