
Artist
Gloria Jones
Gloria Jones is a soul artist formed in 1945. 12 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 12
- Releases
- 1973–2025
- Active years
- 1945
- Formed

Artist
Gloria Jones is a soul artist formed in 1945. 12 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Tainted Love (Franksen Remix)
Single · 2025

Tainted Love (Future Rave)
Single · 2025

Tainted Love (Dance Remake)
Single · 2024

Tainted Love 2024
Single · 2024

Tainted Love 2024 (Celebrating 60 Years)
Single · 2024

Give God What's Due
Single · 2015

Tainted Love: The Original Single
Single · 2015

Kingdom Come Forever Records
EP · 2011
Gloria Jones (born 19 October 1945, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer. She first recorded the 1964 northern soul classic Tainted Love, later a hit for the British synth-pop duo Soft Cell in 1981. Gloria Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 7, where she first started singing. Gloria’s first taste of fame came at the age of 14, when, while still at school, she formed with Frankie Kahrl and Billy Preston the successful gospel group the Cogic Singers. Although she remained with the group for some four years, she soon found herself drawn into the Los Angeles pop scene. In 1964, Gloria Jones, in her late-teens, was discovered by hit songwriter Ed Cobb. Signing with Cobb’s Greengrass Productions, Gloria recorded her first hit record, “Heartbeat Pts 1 & 2,” which Cobb wrote and produced. She toured the country, performing on several American TV shows, footage of which still exists. One memorable performance occurred at a Rock and Soul show in Disneyland in the summer of 1965. “Heartbeat” became a classic rhythm and blues tune which later was recorded by Dusty Springfield, Spencer Davis and many other artists who attempted to capture the Glor…