{"id":3068,"date":"2023-09-05T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2023-09-05T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:09:32","slug":"tainted-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3068","title":{"rendered":"Tainted Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1981 &#8220;Soft Cell,&#8221; a British synth-pop duo consisting of\u00a0Marc Almond\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Ball, hit number 1 in the UK with an electronic cover of &#8220;Tainted Love,&#8221; a song originally released by the American soul singer Gloria Jones in 1964.  The song also topped the charts in a number of other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While often thought of as a one-Hit Wonder, Soft Cell had a number of other hits in the UK but Tainted Love was their only number 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Official Music Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZVpR3Pk-r8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1981 &#8220;Soft Cell,&#8221; a British synth-pop duo consisting of\u00a0Marc Almond\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Ball, hit number 1 in the UK with an electronic cover of &#8220;Tainted Love,&#8221; a song originally released by the American soul singer Gloria Jones in 1964. The song also topped the charts in a number of other countries. While often thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-soft-cell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}