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American Idol Season 7 - The Songs

Tainted Love

By Bill Lamb, About.com Guide

First recorded as a soul single in the 1960's, this song came to be a defining song of electronic new wave in the 1980's.

Performers

Danny Noriega - March 4, 2008

Songwriter

Ed Cobb

Notable Recorded Versions

Key Lyric Phrase

This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all

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