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1987 Jive Electro-Pop album Expanded & Remastered to a Double Disc Set in 2012 with 20 Bonus Tracks and Mark Shreeve contributing on 4 tracks!
‘Samantha Fox’ was the 2nd full-length album from British model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. It was released by Jive in September 1987 and charted in the UK at # 22, United States at # 51 (gold), Canada at # 40 (platinum), Australia at # 86, and Germany at # 16. After her first album went gold, Samantha returned to the studio to record her self-titled album. She enlisted help from producers and music group Full Force, who were helping Lisa Lisa at that time, to produce some of the songs on the album. This album combines rock with freestyle and pop. She had hits with: ‘Naughty Girls {Need Love Too}’, ‘Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now’, a cover version of the Rolling Stones' ‘{I Can't Get No} Satisfaction’, ‘I Promise You {Get Ready}’, ‘True Devotion’ - her first ballad, and the rock song: ‘I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night}’.
In 2012 it’s available again, this time as a Double CD Set with the entire Remastered original album on the 1st Disc with 7 Bonus Tracks, and a 2nd CD featuring 13 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 (4 on ‘Samantha Fox’), 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: SAMANTHA FOX Track List:
Disc 1:
01. I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night}
02. I Promise You {Get Ready}
03. Naughty Girls {Need Love Too}
04. True Devotion [feat. Mark Shreeve]
05. {I Can't Get No} Satisfaction
06. Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now
07. If Music Be The Food Of Love
08. That Sensation
09. Dream City
10. The Best Is Yet To Come
11. Even In The Darkest Hours [extended version - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
12. Right Stuff [previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
13. Hot Tonight [previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
14. I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night} [feat. Mark Shreeve - original mix - unreleased] * Bonus Track *
15. Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now [Jump & Jive mix] * Bonus Track *
16. {I Can t Get No} Satisfaction [Bastone radio mix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
17. Naughty Girls {Need Love Too} [Jon's Savage edit] * Bonus Track *
Disc 2:
01. Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now [extended version] * Bonus Track *
02. I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night} [feat. Mark Shreeve - extended & unreleased] * Bonus Track *
03. I Promise You {Get Ready} [extended version] * Bonus Track *
04. Naughty Girls {Need Love Too} [special extended version] * Bonus Track *
05. {I Can't Get No} Satisfaction [extended version - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
06. I Promise You {Get Ready} [Stan Shaw mix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
07. Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now [Cub mix] * Bonus Track *
08. Naughty Girls {Need Love Too} [Full Force Naughty House mix – unreleased] * Bonus Track *
09. {I Can't Get No} Satisfaction [She's Gotta Have It mix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
10. I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night} [feat. Mark Shreeve - 12" remix - unreleased] * Bonus Track *
11. Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now [instrumental - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
12. I Surrender {To The Spirit Of The Night} [instrumental - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
13. I Promise You {Get Ready} [instrumental] * Bonus Track *