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1986 Jive Electro-Pop album Expanded & Remastered to a Double Disc Set in 2012 with 27 Bonus Tracks and Mark Shreeve contributing on 10 tracks!
‘Touch Me’ was the debut pop album of British model-turned-singer Samantha Fox, released in the autumn of 1986. The album was certified gold and featured four UK chart hits, two of which also charted in the USA.
‘Touch Me {I Want Your Body}’ was the first hit from the album and it became a worldwide hit, peaking at # 3 in the UK, # 4 in the United States (usually a tough market for international acts), and topping the Australian and Canadian charts. In Canada, the single stayed at # 1 for seven weeks. The single also stayed at the top of Sweden's music chart for eight weeks, succeeded by Fox's second single: ‘Do Ya Do Ya {Wanna Please Me}’.
In 2012 it’s available again, this time as a Double CD Set with the entire Remastered original album on the 1st Disc with 10 Bonus Tracks, and a 2nd CD featuring 17 Different Versions and Remixes.
A point of interest for Electronic Music fans is, strange but true, but Mark Shreeve wrote and played on several of Samantha Fox’s tracks (10 on ‘Touch Me’), and was partially to blame for her being signed in the first place :-)
Here’s the story straight from the horse's mouth…
From Sound On Sound Magazine: THE FOXY LADY: MARK SHREEVE ON SAMANTHA…
Not a lot of people know that Mark Shreeve was responsible for co-writing former Page 3 model Samantha Fox's biggest hit single: 'Touch Me {I Want Your Body}' peaked at No. 3 in the UK charts in March 1986 - yet it was a fluke of the grandest order that the song ever made it onto vinyl, as Mark explained: "I'm really tight with cassettes, so when I was doing demos for the album I recorded two tracks on a used cassette at home which I then took in to Roddy McKenna, ‘Legion’ Jive Electro's A&R man, to see if they were worth pursuing any further for my album. A couple of days later he rang back raving about a 3rd track, which he thought had a really commercial bass-line and chord structure. It turned out he'd listened past the two tracks I'd given him and latched onto the end of an old track that I'd recorded over!”
"It was originally a 13-minute piece of 'cosmic' music dating from 1982, knocked up on a Pro One, CS30 and a Dr Rhythm drum machine - the chords, bass-line and some of the phrases eventually became the basis of: 'Touch Me {I Want Your Body}', although the original was probably about 10bpm slower than the finished track.”
"I didn't know anything about the structure of pop music at all. Most of my compositions back then were about 15 minutes long. I don't get going until after about two minutes, by which time a pop song's nearly over!”
"Then, when I was doing the ‘Legion’ album, we started working up this track with all the others, but with the idea that we'd have some vocals on it. Roddy said I had to write some lyrics - and my lyrics were pretty much like my music. I think it was originally called 'And Still They Scream', a sort of blood and torture type of thing over this bouncy rhythm!”
"They called in John Astrop, a producer and writer who had also been in a pop band. He went downstairs and came back with the 'Touch Me {I Want Your Body}' words. I thought to myself, 'No-one is going to buy this stuff in a million years' -- boy, was I wrong!”
"The female guide vocalist that John hired in had been in the Eurovision Song Contest band BARDOT. She had an amazing voice, but in the end, the record company agreed with me that it was not quite in keeping with everything else on the ‘Legion’ album.
"Over the next six months Jive were just looking for singers. About 60 or 70 were auditioned, both over here and in New York. Finally, they heard Sam Fox was into singing, and must have thought what better song could she ask for than: 'Touch Me {I Want Your Body}'! The whole thing really came about through a series of chances."
SAMANTHA FOX: TOUCH ME Track List:
Disc 1:
01. Touch Me {I Want Your Body} [feat. Mark Shreeve]
02. I'm All You Need
03. Suzie, Don't Leave Me With Your Boyfriend
04. Wild Kinda Love [feat. Mark Shreeve]
05. Hold On Tight
06. Do Ya Do Ya {Wanna Please Me} [feat. Mark Shreeve]
07. Baby, I m Lost For Words
08. It's Only Love
09. He's Got Sex
10. Drop Me A Line
11. Tonight s The Night * Bonus Track *
12. Want You To Want Me * Bonus Track *
13. Rockin’ In The City * Bonus Track *
14. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again * Bonus Track *
15. Rockin' With My Radio * Bonus Track *
16. Aim To Win * Bonus Track *
17. Holding * Bonus Track *
18. Touch Me {I Want Your Body} [feat. Mark Shreeve - alternative version] * Bonus Track *
19. Hold On Tight [radio mix] * Bonus Track *
20. I'm All You Need [single remix] * Bonus Track *
Disc 2:
01. Touch Me {I Want Your Body} [feat. Mark Shreeve - extended version] * Bonus Track *
02. Do Ya Do Ya {Wanna Please Me} [extended version] * Bonus Track *
03. Hold On Tight [extended version] * Bonus Track *
04. I'm All You Need [extended version] * Bonus Track *
05. Suzie, Don't Leave Me With Your Boyfriend [single remix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
06. Wild Kinda Love [feat. Mark Shreeve - remix] * Bonus Track *
07. Touch Me {I Want Your Body} [feat. Mark Shreeve - blue mix] * Bonus Track *
08. Do Ya Do Ya {Wanna Please Me} [feat. Mark Shreeve - vixen mix] * Bonus Track *
09. Rockin' With My Radio [extended version] * Bonus Track *
10. Aim To Win [extended version] * Bonus Track *
11. Holding [extended version] * Bonus Track *
12. Suzie, Don't Leave Me With Your Boyfriend [extended version - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
13. Touch Me {I Want Your Body} [instrumental - feat. Mark Shreeve - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
14. Do Ya Do Ya {Wanna Please Me} [instrumental - feat. Mark Shreeve] * Bonus Track *
15. Hold On Tight [instrumental] * Bonus Track *
16. I'm All You Need [instrumental - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
17. Holding [dub mix] * Bonus Track *