Interest accrues monthly and is paid when the holder cashes the bond. For bonds issued before May 2005 the rate of interest is recomputed every six months at 90% of the average five-year Treasury yield for the preceding six months. Bonds issued in May 2005 or later pay a fixed interest rate for the life of the bond (0.10% in November 2016).
Gloria Jones version (1965) American artist Gloria Jones recorded the original version of Tainted Love, which was written and produced by Ed Cobb. It was the B-side of her 1965 single My Bad Boy's Comin' Home, which was a commercial flop, failing to chart in either the US or the UK.
However, as Soft Cell wrote neither Tainted Love nor Where Did Our Love Go (the 7 B-side track), they lost the opportunity to make a greater sum of money from songwriting royalties stemming from one of the most popular songs of the 1980s.