Gloria Jones Singers for a 1984 reunion album "The Cogic's". She has since worked as a musical supervisor for films. Gloria Jones Gloria Richetta Jones (born October 19, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She recorded the 1965 hit song "Tainted Love", later covered by the British synthpop duo Soft Cell. She was the girlfriend of glam rock artist Marc Bolan of the band T. Rex until his death in 1977, and was a member of the band, as a keyboardist and backing vocalist, from 1973 to 1976. Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles,
Ease on Down the Road Consumer Rapport. Produced by Stephen Y. Scheaffer and "The Wiz" musical arranger Harold Wheeler, the Consumer Rapport version hit the "Billboard" Soul Singles chart, peaking at #19 and the Hot 100, peaking at #42. In 1977, "Ease on Down the Road" was recorded as a duet between Diana Ross and Michael Jackson and released as the theme song of the 1978 film adaptation of "The Wiz". As with the rest of the music in the film, the film version of "Ease on Down the Road" was produced by Quincy Jones. The recording was one of Jackson's first collaborations with Quincy