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1988 Jive Electro-Pop album Expanded & Remastered to a Double Disc Set in 2012 with 21 Bonus Tracks and Mark Shreeve contributing on 3 tracks!
‘I Wanna Have Some Fun’ was Samantha Fox’s 3rd album and released in November 1988 by Jive Records. The album was a funky mixture of dance pop, R&B and bubblegum, replete with drum machines and bass beats. Various producers covering the Euro-pop sound produced the album.
Two tracks: ‘Next To Me’ and the title track, reunited her with Full Force, while in another reunion with the Stock Aitken Waterman crew she recorded a cover of Dusty Springfield's: ‘I Only Want To Be With You’, re-titled: ‘I Only Wanna Be With You’, and the SAW original: ‘You Started Something’. The 1st single released from the album was: ‘Love House’. The 2nd single released in the UK: ‘I Only Wanna Be With You’, was her biggest hit in over a year, peaking in the Top Twenty at # 16.
The 1st single release in the US fared even better. The title selection: ‘I Wanna Have Some Fun’, produced by Full-Force, reached # 8 in the US Top Ten, though when released as the 3rd single in the UK, it only managed # 63. The American release, as the follow-up, of: ‘I Only Wanna Be With You’ peaked inside the US Billboard Top 40 at # 31. No further singles were released from the album, although ‘Your House Or My House’ was reported by the fan club to be in the running for a Canadian single release.
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 (3 on ‘I Wanna Have Some Fun’), 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: I WANNA HAVE SOME FUN Track List:
Disc 1:
01. I Wanna Have Some Fun
02. Love House
03. Your House Or My House
04. Next To Me
05. Ready For This Love
06. Confession [feat. Mark Shreeve]
07. I Only Wanna Be With You
08. You Started Something
09. One In A Million
10. Walking On Air
11. Hot For You
12. Out Of Our Hands [feat. Mark Shreeve]
13. Don t Cheat On Me [feat. Mark Shreeve] * Bonus Track *
14. Lovin' Don t Grow On Trees * Bonus Track *
15. All I Wanna Do [feat. Full Force - single edit - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
16. Too Late To Say Goodbye [previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
17. Giving Me A Hard Time * Bonus Track *
18. Shout It Out [previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
19. Ready For This Love [7" mix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
Disc 2:
01. Love House [Black Pyramid mix] * Bonus Track *
02. Your House Or My House [extended version - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
03. I Only Wanna Be With You [extended version - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
04. I Wanna Have Some Fun [extended version] * Bonus Track *
05. Lovin' Don't Grow On Trees [extended version - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
06. Love House [Chicago House Jam mix - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
07. I Only Wanna Be With You [12" mix] * Bonus Track *
08. I Wanna Have Some Fun [Sample Some Fun mix] * Bonus Track *
09. Love House [Coldest mix - previously unreleased] * Bonus Track *
10. All I Wanna Do [feat. Full Force - FF remix - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
11. Love House [DJ Pierre mix - previously unreleased in the UK] * Bonus Track *
12. I Wanna Have Some Fun [Alternative Fun mix] * Bonus Track *
13. Love House [Cool mix] * Bonus Track *
14. I Only Wanna Be With You [instrumental - previously unreleased]