[2017-07-28] Samantha Fox "Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box" 2CD/2DVD box set (Cherry Pop UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2017 2:45 pm

Description
Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box is the long-awaited, first-ever definitive retrospective of Samantha Fox’s musical career to date. Marking three decades since this undisputed icon of the 80s first topped the world’s charts. this lavish 2CD + 2DVD box set is replete with a fold-out double-sided poster, a set of button badges and a picture-packed 32-page booklet. This is an essential package for Sam’s army of Foxy fans and all self-respecting aficionados of 80s pop culture.

The definitive Samantha Fox singles collection, CD1 brings together every single released during her phenomenally successful Jive Records tenure for the very first time. From the unforgettable 1986 smash ‘Touch Me’ to the Stock Aitken Waterman favourite ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now’ and the Full Force classic ‘Naughty Girls’, the succession of global hits which made Sam the only British female to score a hat-trick of Top 10s on both sides of the Atlantic during the 80s are all present and correct. Successes from the years since, including the dance floor favourite ‘Santa Maria’ and an irresistible cover of Blondie’s ‘Call Me’ with fellow 80s icon Sabrina, bring the story up to date. An exclusive, previously unheard bonus track, ‘You’ve Got Me Believing In Make Believe’, direct from Sam’s personal archive, rounds out the selection.

CD2 features many sought-after and previously unavailable rarities from throughout Sam’s career. Always eclectic and never just a ‘model-turned-singer’, she convinced as a rock chick one moment and a trend-setting dance diva the next. Here, her choice of collaborations ranging from legendary space rockers Hawkwind to acid house pioneer DJ Pierre sit alongside covers of favourite acts such as The Beatles, Donna Summer and ABBA. With B-sides, remixes, an updated take on ‘Touch Me’ and another exclusive track, ‘It’s You’, there is plenty to discover for diehard fans and newcomers alike.

Play It Again, Sam also boasts all of Sam’s classic videos to date, many of them on DVD for the very first time. In the age of MTV, Sam’s early success as a model immediately translated to the small screen in a series of memorable promos, helping to consolidate her chart success worldwide. DVD1 gathers together Sam’s iconic original videos, with DVD2 featuring additional rare footage, including the seldom-seen early video ‘Rockin’ With My Radio’, extended and alternative takes, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

Sam is currently putting the finishing touches to her autobiography and a long-awaited new studio album. Following Cherry Pop’s bestselling Deluxe Edition reissues of her four Jive studio albums, ‘Touch Me’, ‘Samantha Fox’, ‘I Wanna Have Some Fun’ and ‘Just One Night’, we are delighted to continue our successful partnership with one of the best-loved British pop artists of the 80s.

Tracklist
[CD1: The Singles]
1. Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
2. Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)
3. Hold On Tight (Radio Mix)
4. I’m All You Need (Single Re-Mix)
5. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now
6. I Surrender (To The Spirit Of The Night) (7” Mix)
7. I Promise You (Get Ready)
8. True Devotion (New Mix)
9. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) (Single Edit)
10. Love House (7” Edit)
11. I Only Wanna Be With You
12. I Wanna Have Some Fun (7” Edit)
13. (Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On (Radio Edit – Sam Talks)
14. Another Woman (Harding/Curnow 7” Version)
15. Go For The Heart With Sox
16. Let Me Be Free
17. The Reason Is You (Radio Edit)
18. Santa Maria with DJ Milano
19. Angel With An Attitude
20. Call Me with Sabrina
21. You’ve Got Me Believing In Make Believe (Bonus Track)

[CD2: Rarities & Remixes]
1. I Should Have Known Better
2. Confession
3. Lovin’ Don’t Grow On Trees (Alternative Mix)
4. All I Wanna Do… with Full Force
5. Love To Love You Baby (Hip Hop Mix)
6. Even In The Darkest Hours (7” Edit)
7. Love House (7” Remix)
8. I Only Wanna Be With You (Special Single Edit)
9. Too Late To Say Goodbye (Original 12” Mix)
10. The Winner Takes It All
11. La Isla Bonita
12. A Question Of Honour
13. Midnight Lover
14. I Give Myself To You (Pete Hammond Remix)
15. Touch Me 2016 (Radio Edit)
16. It’s You (Nick Harvey Club Mix)
17. Gimme Shelter with Hawkwind
18. The Best Is Yet To Come (7” Mix)

[DVD1: The Videos]
1. Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
2. Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)
3. Hold On Tight
4. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now
5. I Surrender (To The Spirit Of The Night)
6. I Promise You (Get Ready)
7. True Devotion
8. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
9. Love House
10. I Only Wanna Be With You
11. I Wanna Have Some Fun
12. Hurt Me! Hurt Me! (But The Pants Stay On)
13. Another Woman
14. Just One Night
15. Go For The Heart With Sox
16. Let Me Be Free
17. The Reason Is You
18. Santa Maria with DJ Milano
19. Angel With An Attitude
20. Call Me with Sabrina

Disc Four (Dvd): Bonus Footage
1. Rockin’ With My Radio
2. I Surrender (To The Spirit Of The Night) (Unedited Version)
3. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) (Club Version)
4. Love House (Dance Mix)
5. I Only Wanna Be With You (Alternative Version)
6. All I Wanna Do… With Full Force
7. Touch Me With Gu¨Nther
8. Rockin’ With My Radio (Behind The Scenes)
9. 1987 Interview
10. 1989 Interview
11. 1991 Interview
12. Call Me With Sabrina (Behind The Scenes)

Amazon USA
Available soon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072PWQSPL/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072PWQSPL/?tag=imwan-21

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

The question is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, does she keep her clothes on in the videos (while in the 80's I did find her 1st couple albums a "guilty pleasure", she was best known for being a "Page 1" girl in the UK.

Dental Floss Tycoon · 16 Oct 2007

Geff R. wrote:

The question is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, does she keep her clothes on in the videos (while in the 80's I did find her 1st couple albums a "guilty pleasure", she was best known for being a "Page 1" girl in the UK.

Actually it's "Page 3" girl. Reminded me instantly of this:

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Dental Floss Tycoon wrote:

Geff R. wrote:

The question is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, does she keep her clothes on in the videos (while in the 80's I did find her 1st couple albums a "guilty pleasure", she was best known for being a "Page 1" girl in the UK.

Actually it's "Page 3" girl. Reminded me instantly of this:

I had a suspicion the "1" was wrong. When I was in b&m retailing in the 80's, she was the only "artist" we sold nude photo books of!

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

Oh my god, yet another new low in re-issued music ! :sigh:

I couldn't help notice she did a song with Hawkwind ! Struth ! would have liked to be a fly on the wall at that session.

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

The Hawkwind/Sam Fox collaboration is a cover of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and was one of a number of charity singles to raise money for the homeless. Hard to fault them for good intentions.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

That really would be interesting to hear!

Jeff · 05 Oct 2006

Honestly I would never have imagined she did anything worth collecting. :lol:

Other than "Tonight's the night" and "Naughty Girls" I don't think I've ever heard anything she did. Those songs were, to my crowd at least, just slutty make-out songs. But I'm old, perhaps she's become more recognized as an icon of the decade over the years.

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

A thread with not one Page 3 pic? :shock:

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I worked at a record shop around 87 and I can vividly remember selling color pic 12" vinyls of one of Samantha Foxes 'forgettable' tunes, the vinyl had a pic of her topless. Many a young bloke brought these, especially to hear the elaborate chord changes.

Note to op: Sorry Linda......I need some distraction to the flowing tears for Gregg Allman.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59410

I'm also amazed that they had enough material for this release. I knew of three songs, maximum, and assumed she'd been forgotten along with Sabrina, Vanity 6, Apollonia, and a small army of other half-naked 80's singers who seemed to populate the top 40 in the late 80's.

I thought she'd be working in a fish & chip shop in Leeds by now or something. Shows what I know, I guess.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

I enjoyed her music in the 80's; but than I drank ALOT at the time!

Kid Bailey · 16 Jul 2006

Jeff · 05 Oct 2006

Simon wrote:

I'm also amazed that they had enough material for this release. I knew of three songs, maximum, and assumed she'd been forgotten along with Sabrina, Vanity 6, Apollonia, and a small army of other half-naked 80's singers who seemed to populate the top 40 in the late 80's.

I thought she'd be working in a fish & chip shop in Leeds by now or something. Shows what I know, I guess.

Two of your examples were Prince proteges who would never have had a career in any decade if he didn't write their songs and promote them.

But your point is still valid.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Again, she was pretty famous in the UK before recording or performing anything. Musically she basically was a puppet with very good producers & excellent promotion.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

She was a good friend of Lemmy's and apparently they recorded together.

Old Man Of Oy · 13 Jan 2014

Heh-heh, 'long-awaited'. By Ms Fox's accountant, they mean.

Kid Bailey wrote:

Good Lord, I remember the very ill-considered tv broadcast of a commercial for that er, 'classic' during the break in a genuinely harrowing soap opera episode about a rape, and the contrived 'media storm' that followed. The gutter-trawling Murdoch-owned tabloid newspaper that she regularly appeared topless in was never so conflicted in it's reporting. "Our Sam Sparks Outrage But We Still Love Her Don't We Lads But It Crossed A Line Didn't It But What About Them Argies We Showed 'Em Eh". To be fair the broadcast was nothing to do with her, but then she did record the damn thing in the first place.

Lemmy of course had a long history of involvement with Page 3 girls, he was merely undertaking research for his memoirs.

kennynd · **Joined:** 27 Jul 2014 **Posts:** 13

Seriously... Are the dvds region 2 or region 0? I see conflicting info. Thanks

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I believe it's 34D somewhere in that region

ARK · **Joined:** 23 Mar 2013 **Posts:** 1323

4 big US hits...

Touch Me
Naughty Girls
I Only Wanna Be With You
I Wanna Have Some Fun

[2017-07-28] Samantha Fox "Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box" 2CD/2DVD box set (Cherry Pop UK)

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