Originals Week: Even Europop…
{Jun 03}
1960s gloria jones, originals week, soft cell No Comments
This one here is weird and probably the biggest one that you’ll say, “Really? That was a cover?” So far, we’ve done two songs that basically sounded the same and one that was just modernized really. This next one though…they are so far apart in tone, genre, and everything else that they’re barely comparable. But the newer version is still a cover.
I really don’t even know where to start with this one to be honest. There’s really not that much information to cover, but there also is just for the drastic upheval of the song. Where should we start? Well, the song was written by Ed Cobb, formerly one of the founding members of The Four Preps known mostly for their minor hit 26 Miles (Santa Catalina). After his career with them, he turned into a producer and songwriter responsible for some minor hits for mostly The Standells. He also wrote a few songs for an underage soul singer named Gloria Jones. Sadly, the soul singer never hit it big in America. It wasn’t until the mid-70s that she finally began to make a minor dent, but it was in the UK as part of the Northern Soul movement happening in the underground club circuit. It was here where two aspiring DJs heard the song a soulful expression of a failed relationship set to a bouncy melody that people could move and clap to that.
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