Gloria Jones 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, California, at the age of seven, where she first started singing. Jones' first taste of fame came at
Roots (1977 miniseries) and Ralph Waite ("The Waltons"), were cast against type as slave holders and traders. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, and the soundtrack album was released on the A&M label in 1977. Allmusic's Richard S. Ginell said "Quincy Jones has been threatening to write a long tone poem sketching the history of black music for decades now, and he has yet to do it. This project, rushed out in the wake of the 1977 TV mini-series "Roots", is about as close as he has come. A brief (28 minutes) immaculately-produced and segued suite, Roots quickly