Say You Really Want Me

"Say You Really Want Me" is a single from the Kim Wilde album Another Step. In the US and Canada it was the first single to be released from that album. In the UK it was the third Another Step single and the fourth in Australia.

[edit] North American issue

"Say You Really Want Me" was first issued in the US and Canada in several promotional 7" and 12" singles in 1986 having been used in the film Running Scared. It was later commercially released there in early 1987. Several different versions of the song were released promotionally and commercially, making it hard for collectors to find every version.

“Say You Really Want Me”

Single by Kim Wilde
from the album Another Step

B-side

"Don't Say Nothing's Changed"

Released

1987

Format

7", 12", Cassette-single

Danny Sembello, Dick Rudolph, Donnell Spencer Jr

Producer

Rod Temperton, Dick Rudolph, Bruce Swedien

Kim Wilde singles chronology

Another Step (Closer to You)
(1987)

Say You Really Want Me
(1987)

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
(1987)

[edit] UK and Australian release

"Say You Really Want Me" was released as a single in the UK and Australia in July of 1987. A newly remixed version (different from any released in the US and Canada) was used for the 7" single, and an extended version of this used for the 12". Two videos were made for this release - firstly one to accompany the 7" version, and a second extended one to accompany a new extended remix known as the "video remix". This version was also released in the UK on a 2nd 12" single separate to the one containing the extended version of the 7". "Say You Really Want Me" also marked Wilde's first cassette-single release in her home country (it contained the video remix, the 7" version and the B-side). The raunchy video was famously banned from children's television by presenter Timmy Mallett.