Ed Cobb

USA, 1956–1999

American songwriter and producer who sang with the clean-cut Four Preps and then wrote some of the most durable songs of the other side of the 1960s: 'Dirty Water' for the Standells, 'Every Little Bit Hurts' for Brenda Holloway, and 'Tainted Love' for Gloria Jones — a 1964 flop that became a Northern Soul record, then a worldwide hit for Soft Cell seventeen years later.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Ed Cobb and 1 artist Ed Cobb influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Ed Cobb influence?

• Soft Cell — 'Tainted Love' is Cobb's song, written for Gloria Jones in 1964. It flopped, became a Northern Soul record, and Soft Cell took it to number one around the world seventeen years later.