GLORIA JONES- “TAINTED LOVE“ (1964)

New GLORIA JONES video channels!: ABOUT THIS VIDEO: The undercurrent of change is challenge. In the 50’s, the Beats, the Ban The Bomb movement, and Rock’n’Roll challenged the status quo of America as limiting and oppressive. The early 60’s continued this with the advent of young idealist JFK, the folk music boom, and most importantly the ongoing Civll Rights struggle. History’s biggest generation was poised on the brink of the future. They were discovering that their fathers said one thing and did another. The struggle between their optimism and the system’s hypocrisy is still raging today... About Gloria Jones: She was an American soul singer who peaked with this steller tune in ’64. It never quite made the mainstream, but was big abroad. She eventually, like Jimi and P.P. Arnold and so many others, found better support and fame in England. In the early 70’s she met Marc Bolan of . They were steadfast partners