Tantalizingly Hot

{{Infobox album

| name = Tantalizingly Hot

| type = studio

| artist = Stephanie Mills

| cover = Tantalizinglyhot.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 17, 1982

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Soul

| length =

| label = Casablanca

| producer = {{flatlist|

• James Mtume
• Reggie Lucas
• Ashford & Simpson}}

| prev_title = Stephanie

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = Love Has Lifted Me

| next_year = 1982

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Tantalizing Hot

| type = studio

| single1 = Last Night

| single1date = 1982

| single2 = Keep Away Girls

| single2date = 1982

| single3 = You Can't Run from My Love

| single3date = 1983

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000858513 |label=Tantalizingly Hot review |first=Justin |last=Kantor |accessdate=2020-05-06}}

}}

Tantalizingly Hot is the sixth album by American recording artist Stephanie Mills, released in 1982 and was produced by James Mtume & Reggie Lucas and Ashford & Simpson. It was her first release, by default, on Casablanca Records. In 1981, oil magnate and industrialist Marvin Davis (1925–2004) and financier Marc Rich (1934–2013) bought Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, which owned her previous label, 20th Century-Fox Records, for a grand total of $703 million.{{cite book|author1=Cheryl Moch|author2=Vincent Virga|title=The biggest, the boldest, the best deals: the world's shrewdest and most lucrative deals from business, entertainment, politics, and sports|url=https://archive.org/details/biggestboldestbe00moch|url-access=registration|accessdate=19 February 2012|date=29 August 1984|publisher=Crown Publishers|isbn=978-0-517-55039-7}}

However, Davis expressed disinterest in buying the record company and thus sold the record label to PolyGram earlier that year. PolyGram, a European conglomerate that was buying up US record labels as fast as they could make deals, immediately shut down the label and had all of its artists' contracts and reissues (including Mills') transferred to their Casablanca imprint, which they had owned since owning 50% of the company in 1977.[http://www.bsnpubs.com/fox/index.html 20th Century Fox Records] (PolyGram bought the other 50% in 1980, the same year Mills recorded the LP Sweet Sensation).[http://www.bsnpubs.com/casablanca/casablancastory.html Casablanca Records Story]