Ok speaking of Shocking blue, what the actual fuck:

It’s My Life’ – No Doubt / Talk Talk

Soft Cell – Tainted love

original

Gloria Jones – Tainted love

Yes - Starship Trooper (the Würm portion) started out as Bodast - Nether Street:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKftiJS30Cs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6Y8d0FycM

...and Yes, I was todays years old when I learned that little music history nugget.

Wow, had no idea.

Kids be like, that Westlife song, you know the one...


Ah, no...

You're only supposed to be putting things you didn't know about TH, surely there has to be a few of those...;)

If we don't know about it then how can we know about it in order to make a post in this thread about now knowing about it

I don't know.

Okay then. For a very long time I believed this to be the original.


But it's not.

that's Johnny Mathis singing a song originally written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film of the same name. Nina Simone also covered it in 1966.