Misc :
Chek out a few promo pictures the boys did for this album.

Inside story (Lollipop interviw with Spike) :
Lollipop: The music on 'Have a Ball' is very sectioned into a California punk sound. Did you have anything to do with the album musically?
Spike: Yeah, I guess it's kind of LA sounding. Arrangements. I didn't play any of the instruments, but I'd come in while they were recording and I'd say something sounded better a different way and they'd try it. Jackson had a few things to say in picking the songs. Joey and Mike picked out a lot of the songs. I picked out 'Danny's Song'. I thought it would sound good, just like - no drums. Another case of no drums. You can do more with it.
Lollipop: Who picked 'Uptown Girl'?
Spike: That happened in the studio. We picked 'Only the Good Die Young', that's the A side. Then they just started playing 'Uptown Girl' in the studio and 15 minutes later recorded it. And then I sang... it just sorta happened. That's in my opinion the best track on the record. (...)
Lollipop: Does drinking largely influence your music?
Spike: Oh, yeah. When we recorded 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' I was so drunk I blacked out. I don't even remember recording it. It was that kind of embarrassing drunk where the next thing you know you're dancing naked on a bar or something.

Pressing Info :
The black 12" and and CD are still available.
The 12" was initially pressed on black vinyl (unknown number of copies) and repressed in 2010 on grey vinyl (394 copies, no longer available).
There are some test pressings floating around.
The cassette is out of print.

Matrix A Side: FAT 554-1-A 1466.1(3)
Matrix B Side: FAT 554-1-B 1466.2(3)