Say You Really Want Me

Infobox Single
Name = Say You Really Want Me


Artist = Kim Wilde
from Album = Another Step
B-side = "She Hasn't Got Time For You"
Released = 1986, 1987
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = MCA
Writer = Danny Sembello, Dick Rudolph, Donnell Spencer Jr
Producer = Rod Temperton, Dick Rudolph, Bruce Swedien
Certification =
Chart position = * #44 (US)
* #48 (Canada)
Last single = You Keep Me Hangin' On
(1986)
This single = Say You Really Want Me (North American issue)
(1987)
Next single = Another Step (Closer to You)
(1987)

"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.

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.

Infobox Single
Name = Say You Really Want Me


Artist = Kim Wilde
from Album = Another Step
B-side = "Don't Say Nothing's Changed"
Released = 20 July 1987
Format = 7", 12", Cassette-single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = MCA
Writer = Danny Sembello, Dick Rudolph, Donnell Spencer Jr
Producer = Rod Temperton, Dick Rudolph, Bruce Swedien
Certification =
Chart position = * #29 (UK)
Last single = Another Step (Closer to You)
(1987)
This single = Say You Really Want Me
(1987)
Next single = Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
(1987)

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.