Hot Chocolate – RAK Singles

31,90

This 4 CD clam shell box set features every A and B-side they issued on the seminal RAK Records label, all 36 singles.

Release: 17 Sept, 2021

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Description

Hot Chocolate – RAK Singles

4-CD Holland
Dance / Soul
Clamshell Box, Box Set

• With 12 UK Top 10 singles, 29 Top 40 hits and a combined 280 weeks (over 5 years!) in the UK charts Hot Chocolate are one of THE most successful chart acts of all time

• This 4 CD clam shell box set features every A and B-side they issued on the seminal RAK Records label, all 36 singles

• ‘So You Win Again’ was the band’s sole No.1 single but they scored Top 10 hits with ‘Love Is Life’ (No.6), ‘I Believe In Love’ (No.8), ‘Brother Louie’ (No.7), ‘Emma’ (No.3), ‘A Child’s Prayer’ (No.7), ‘You Sexy Thing’ (No.2), ‘Put Your Love In Me’ (No.10), ‘No Doubt About It’ (No.2), ‘Girl Crazy’ (No.7), ‘It Started With A Kiss’ (No.5) and ‘What Kinda Boy You’re Lookin’ For Girl’ (No.10)

Hot Chocolate chalked up at least one hit single every year between 1970 and 1984, a rare achievement and they are among the Top 200 most successful UK chart artists of all time.

Unlike many UK ‘pop’ acts of the day they scored chart success in the USA where ‘Emma’ (No.3), ‘Disco Queen’ (No.28), ‘You Sexy Thing’ (No.3), ‘So You Win Again’ (No.31), and ‘Every 1’s A Winner’ (No.6) were all Billboard Top 40 hits.

24 of these singles were also chart entries in Germany while eight of them went Top 20 in Australia, the band scoring hits across most of Europe as well.
The booklet comes complete with detailed notes on each single by 1970s expert Phil Hendriks and is fully illustrated with sleeves from across the globe

Tracklist

CD1

  1. Love is Life
  2. Pretty Girls
  3. You Could’ve Been a Lady
  4. Everybody’s Laughing
  5. I Believe (In Love) 6 Caveman Billy
  6. Mary-Anne
  7. Ruth
  8. You’ll Always Be a Friend
  9. Go Go Girl
  10. Brother Louie
  11. I Want To Be Free
  12. Rumours
  13. A Man Needs a Woman
  14. Emma
  15. Makin’ Music
  16. Changing World
  17. Bump and Dilly Down

CD2

  1. Cheri Babe
  2. Sexy Lady
  3. Blue Night
  4. You Sexy Thing (B-Side Version)
  5. Disco Queen
  6. You’re a Natural High
  7. A Child’s Prayer
  8. Everything Should Be Funky
  9. You Sexy Thing
  10. A Warm Smile
  11. Don’t Stop It Now
  12. Beautiful Lady
  13. Man To Man
  14. Eyes of a Growing Child
  15. Heaven is In the Back Seat of My Cadillac
  16. Sex Appeal
  17. So You Win Again
  18. A Part of Being With You

CD3

  1. Put Your Love In Me
  2. Let Them Be the Judge
  3. Every 1’s a Winner
  4. Power of Love
  5. I’ll Put You Together Again (From Dear Anyone)
  6. West End of Park Lane
  7. Mindless Boogie
  8. Don’t Turn It Off
  9. Going Through the Motions
  10. Stay With Me
  11. No Doubt About It
  12. Gimme Some of Your Loving
  13. Are You Getting Enough of What Makes You Happy?
  14. I’ve Got You On My Mind
  15. Love Me To Sleep
  16. The Girl is a Fox
  17. Losing You
  18. Children of Spacemen

CD4

  1. You’ll Never Be So Wrong
  2. Robot Love
  3. Girl Crazy
  4. Bed Games
  5. It Started With a Kiss
  6. Emotion Explosion
  7. Chances
  8. A Night To Remember
  9. What Kinda Boy You’re Lookin’ For (Girl)
  10. Got To Get Back To Work
  11. Tears On the Telephone
  12. It’s My Birthday
  13. I’m Sorry
  14. Love is a Good Thing
  15. I Gave You My Heart (Didn’t I)
  16. Jeannie
  17. Heartache No. 9
  18. One Life

Additional information

Weight 0,450 kg