James Cleveland – spoken voice and choir director (5).Tamara Matoesian, now Tamara Champlin – backing vocals (1, 9).
Roger Linn – drum synthesizer programming (4).James Newton Howard – synthesizers (1-4, 7, 9, 10), vocoder (2), synthesizer programming (4, 10), string arrangements and conductor (6, 7, 8), Fender Rhodes (8), Hammond organ (11).Elton John – lead vocals, vocal solo (1), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 9), pianos (1, 3, 5), acoustic piano (2, 6–11).Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album. All the videos were conceptualised by Keith Williams and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The video for "Elton's Song", which dealt with the story of a teenage boy's admiration for another teenage boy he yearns for, but who is too shy to confront his feelings, was excluded from the UK video release because the public school it was filmed in objected to the theme of the song. The collection was also released on RCA's CED video disc and Laserdisc, a precursor to the DVD, but has not been released since. It is notable as one of the first long-form video releases of an album. Visions, released on VHS in 1982, is a video of all ten songs recorded for The Fox album. "Je Veux De La Tendresse" (French version of "Nobody Wins")
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However, since the album's release, Elton would perform "Carla/Etude" on his 1986 world tour with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and on subsequent solo tours, plus on a set of 2004 shows with the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra, making it the only song off the album that was performed up to 2010 on a tour with Ray Cooper.Since then, however, Elton has also stopped performing that song. While "Chloe", "Just Like Belgium" and "Nobody Wins" have never been performed again since that tour, "Elton's Song" was performed a few times on a solo tour in 1999. After 1981, only "Chloe", "Just Like Belgium", "Nobody Wins" and "Elton's Song" would be included in Elton's Jump Up tour in 1982."Tendresse" was the original French version of the song which Osborne wrote English lyrics for, thus transforming the song into "Nobody Wins". French and Quebec releases of the album included "J'Veux de la Tendresse" in place of "Nobody Wins".On the 2003 reissue and remaster (and European) CD, Carla/Etude, Fanfare, and Chloe are combined into one track, making it a nine-track album. In 2003, Mercury/Universal and The Rocket Record Company reissued the album on CD, remastered by Gary Moore.Heart in the Right Place, Carla/Etude, Fanfare, Chloe, and Elton's Song were recorded in August 1979 to March 1980 and produced by John and Clive Franks.