I Wanna Have Some Fun is the third album by Samantha Fox

Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English dance-pop singer, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at the age of 16, she began her topless modeling career on Page Three of The Sun, and went on to become a popular pin-up girl...

, released in November 1988 by Jive Records. The album is a funky mixture of dance pop

Dance-pop

Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

, R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 and bubblegum

Bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, often using unknown singers.Bubblegum's classic period ran from 1967 to 1972...

, replete with drum machines and bass beats.

The album was produced by various producers covering the Euro-pop sound. Two tracks, "Next To Me" and the title track, reunited her with Full Force, while in another reunion with Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They had great success during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s...

 (SAW) she recorded a cover of Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

's "I Only Want to Be With You

I Only Want to Be with You

"I Only Want to Be with You" is a rock-and-roll song by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. It was the first solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz...

", retitled "I Only Wanna Be with You", and the SAW original "You Started Something". The first single released from the album was "Love House

Love House

"Love House" is a pop–dance song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. It was produced by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. It was released as the first European single from Samantha’s third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, in the third quarter of 1988...

".

The second 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 first single release in the US fared even better. The title selection, "I Wanna Have Some Fun", produced by Full-Force, reache #8 in the US Top Ten, though when released as the third 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.

Track listing

1. "I Wanna Have Some Fun
   I Wanna Have Some Fun (song)
   "I Wanna Have Some Fun" is a pop–dance song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written by Full Force. It was produced by Full Force. It was released as the first American single from Samantha’s third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, in the second quarter of 1988. In the US the single...
   
   " (Full Force) 5:00
2. "Love House
   Love House
   "Love House" is a pop–dance song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. It was produced by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. It was released as the first European single from Samantha’s third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, in the third quarter of 1988...
   
   " (Bolland & Bolland) 4:34
3. "Your House or My House" (Skinner - Marshall) 3:54
4. "Next to Me" (Full Force) 5:24
5. "Ready for This Love" (Shelly Peiken
   Shelly Peiken
   Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....
   
   ) 4:19
6. "Confession" (Fox - Mason - Shreeve) 4:36
7. "I Only Wanna Be with You" (Ivor Raymonde
   Ivor Raymonde
   Ivor Raymonde was a British musician, songwriter, arranger and actor, best known for his distinctive rock-orchestral arrangements for Dusty Springfield and others in the 1960s.-Life and career:...
   
    - Michael Hawker) 2:44
8. "You Started Something" (Stock - Aitken - Waterman) 3:21
9. "One in a Million" (Bolland & Bolland) 4:34
10. "Walking on Air" (Mike Bissell) 4:09
11. "Hot for You" (Eric Beall) 4:11
12. "Out of Our Hands" (Mark Shreeve
    Mark Shreeve
    Mark Shreeve is an electronic music composer. After initially releasing his early work on cassette through the Mirage label he went on to sign for the newly formed Jive Electro in the early eighties and released the albums Assassin, Legion and Crash Head...
    
    - Liz Mason) 4:12

I Wanna Have More Fun

Remix album released by Jive/Alfa in 1989, Japan

1. "I Wanna Have Some Fun" - Extended Mix
2. "I Wanna Have Some Fun" - UK Single Mix
3. "I Wanna Have Some Fun" - Full Force Single Edit
4. "I Wanna Have Some Fun" - Have Some Fun Mix
5. "Don't Cheat on Me"
6. "Love House" - The Black Pyramid Mix
7. "Love House" - Sulphuric Mix
8. "I Only Wanna Be With You" - Extended Mix
9. "I Only Wanna Be Burn You"
10. "I Only Wanna Be House You"
11. "I Only Wanna Be With You" - Special Single Edit
12. "I Only Wanna Be With You" - Acapella Mix

2009 Expanded Reissue

1. "I Wanna Have Some Fun"
2. "Love House"
3. "Your House Or My House"
4. "Next To Me"
5. "Ready For This Love"
6. "Confession"
7. "I Only Wanna Be With You"
8. "You Started Something"
9. "One In A Million"
10. "Walking On Air"
11. "Hot For You"
12. "Out Of Our Hands"
13. "Don't Cheat On Me"
14. "Lovin' Don't Grow On Trees"
15. "Now I Lay Me Down"
16. "I Wanna Have Some Fun" [Extended Version]
17. "Love House" [The Black Pyramid Mix]
18. "I Only Wanna Be With You" [Extended Mix]