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Samantha Fox / Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box / four-disc collection

Early eighties glamour model Samantha Fox launched a musical career in 1986 that was surprisingly successful, for about four years. Her first single Touch Me (I Want Your Body) was a top ten hit virtually everywhere (including America) and reached number one in six countries. She had seven further top 40 hits in the UK and more success stateside. Cherry Red are preparing a 2CD+2DVD box set for July release, called Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box.

Fox signed to Jive Records in 1986 and hits included the aforementioned Touch Me which was the title track of her debut album. For her second long-player (Samantha Fox) she worked with Stock Aitken Waterman who delivered a decent pop hit with Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now and Full Force, who were perhaps best known for their work with Lisa Lisa.

Sam would work with both SAW and Full Force again and in the end she released four albums for Jive – all of which have already been reissued as 2CD deluxe editions by Cherry Red in 2012.

For this new box set CD 1 delivers every single released for Jive, plus an unheard track “direct from Sam’s personal archive”, You’ve Got Me Believing In Make Believe. The second CD contains various rarities, with plenty of seven-inch edits.

The remaining two discs are both DVDs, with the videos on disc three and ‘bonus footage’ on the final disc which includes interviews from the day and alternative and unedited videos.

This looks like a clamshell box affair and comes with a double-sided poster, a set of button badges and a “picture-packed” 32-page booklet.

Play It Again, Sam: The Fox Box is released on 28 July 2017.

Disc: 1

  1. TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY)
  2. DO YA DO YA (WANNA PLEASE ME)
  3. HOLD ON TIGHT (RADIO MIX)
  4. Iâ™M ALL YOU NEED (SINGLE RE-MIX)
  5. NOTHINGâ™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 – SAMANTHA FOX with SOX
  16. LET ME BE FREE
  17. THE REASON IS YOU (RADIO EDIT)
  18. SANTA MARIA – SAMANTHA FOX with DJ MILANO
  19. ANGEL WITH AN ATTITUDE
  20. CALL ME – SAMANTHA FOX with SABRINA
  21. YOUâ™VE GOT ME BELIEVING IN MAKE BELIEVE (BONUS TRACK)

Disc: 2

  1. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
  2. CONFESSION
  3. LOVIN♠DONâ™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. ITâ™S YOU (NICK HARVEY CLUB MIX)
  17. GIMME SHELTER – SAMANTHA FOX with HAWKWIND
  18. THE BEST IS YET TO COME (7âMIX)

Disc: 3

  1. TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY)
  2. DO YA DO YA (WANNA PLEASE ME)
  3. HOLD ON TIGHT
  4. NOTHINGâ™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 – SAMANTHA FOX with SOX
  16. LET ME BE FREE
  17. THE REASON IS YOU
  18. SANTA MARIA – SAMANTHA FOX with DJ MILANO
  19. ANGEL WITH AN ATTITUDE
  20. CALL ME – SAMANTHA FOX with SABRINA

Disc: 4

  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 DOâ| – SAMANTHA FOX with FULL FORCE
  7. TOUCH ME – SAMANTHA FOX with GÃ1/4nther
  8. ROCKIN♠WITH MY RADIO (BEHIND THE SCENES)
  9. 1987 INTERVIEW
  10. 1989 INTERVIEW
  11. 1991 INTERVIEW
  12. CALL ME (BEHIND THE SCENES) – SAMANTHA FOX with SABRINA

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