Glory Box


"Glory Box" is a song by English electronic band Portishead. It was released on 2 January 1995, as the third and final single from their 1994 debut album Dummy. The song samples "Ike's Rap II" by Isaac Hayes and the bassline from the Wallace Collection song "Daydream".

Music video

The music video is set in the 1950s, featuring lead singer Beth Gibbons as a jazz singer at a club while various office workers watch her perform. Sexual tension begins to rise between certain characters, as eventually, all of the workers, as separate couples, attend the club where Beth is performing. Apart from the band members, the entire cast of the video appears in drag.

In popular culture

The song can be heard in several films, such as Stealing Beauty, When the Cat's Away, The Craft, B. Monkey, Tout pour plaire, Lord of War, Claudine's Return and Wild. The song has also been used in a variety of TV shows, such as Daria, Rescue Me, Numb3rs, Ringer, American Horror Story, Trigger Happy TV, Lucifer, and The Vice. The song also features in one of the episodes of the third season of the Italian TV series "1992".
The song featured in a Levi's jeans advertisement, and a French TV advertisement for :fr:Candia |Candia milk in the early 2000s.
In 1998, British folk and blues musician John Martyn adapted the song for his covers album The Church with One Bell. The instrumental backbone of the original song has since been sampled in Alessia Cara's 2015 song "Here".
It was covered by Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman for a 2019 Children in Need charity album titled Got It Covered.

Track listings

CD single
  1. "Glory Box"
  2. "Toy Box"
CD maxi
  1. "Glory Box"
  2. "Toy Box"
  3. "Scorn"
  4. "Sheared Box"
12"
Side one
  1. "Glory Box"
  2. "Scorn"
  3. "Sheared Box"
Side two
  1. "Strangers"
  2. "Wandering Star"

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