| Have a Ball | |
| Type: | Cover album |
| Artist: | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes |
| Cover: | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have a Ball cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Length: | 28:48 |
| Label: | Fat Wreck Chords |
| Next Title: | Are a Drag |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Have a Ball is the first studio album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 1997 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label.[1] The album is made up entirely of "Hits of the '60s and '70s", with the exception of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", originally released in 1983.
Larry Katz of the Boston Herald said that the album was an "unforgettable" album of 1997, despite being relatively little-known, and that the band's gimmick of recording cross-genre covers was a "darn good" joke.[2] Noel Murray, writing in Nashville Scene, praised the record as being fun while not overly long, and said that the rearrangements of familiar older songs allowed listeners to better appreciate the writing of those songs.[3]