Gloria Jones In Conversation

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, returns for its fourth season. Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s. Support KCRW’s original programming like Lost Notes by donating or becoming a member.

This season of Lost Notes kicked off with the story of “Tainted Love” – and, more specifically, the story of its original singer, Gloria Jones. Despite a fascinating and wide-ranging career that stretched over decades, Gloria largely suffered the indignity of being a one-hit wonder who never even enjoyed having that one hit for herself. But as anyone who heard our episode knows, Gloria Jones was responsible for so much amazing music … with a life story to match.

Now, we conclude our season by hearing it all from Gloria herself, from the original recording of “Tainted Love” to her songwriting career at Motown and her life with Marc Bolan of T. Rex – as well as the 60th anniversary of that legendary and iconic song. Gloria sat down with Michael Barnes at KCRW in July of 2024.

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0:00.0	Hey Michael. Hey, Novena. Ever feel like you've been someplace before? Well, if you mean
0:09.5	deja vu more than a few times, but if you're talking about lost notes from KCRW, something about
0:15.5	this moment does seem familiar and a bit foggy. It seems we've come full circle with this season. It's been quite a
0:22.5	journey, my friend. And I do want to say that it's been a blast spending it with you. Oh, thank you.
0:27.9	It has been one of the great pleasures of my life to host this show with you and created with our team.
0:33.9	Same here, my friend. But before we depart, how about one last dance today in fact we have an amazing special guest
0:44.0	although the music might have given it away maybe just maybe we are in fact ending the season just as we began it
0:51.6	with the story of gloria j But this time, we actually have
0:55.8	Gloria Jones in person. This is truly amazing. What a perfect way to wrap things up. As we said in
1:02.6	our very first episode this season, Gloria is an absolute legend. And if you joined us midstream or
1:09.0	haven't gone back to that one, you absolutely must check it out.
1:13.3	In fact, I think you should go do that right now if you haven't yet.
1:16.3	Oh yeah, totally agree.
1:17.4	Go on.
1:17.9	Listen to that episode.
1:19.4	We'll wait right here for you.
1:21.8	Still waiting.
1:22.4	Waiting.
1:23.2	Still waiting.
1:23.6	But for real, as proud as we are of the work we did telling her story,
1:30.6	there's nothing quite like hearing it all from Gloria herself.
1:32.9	From the original recording of T-Tained love,
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