I'd Love You to Want Me

"I'd Love You to Want Me"
Single by Lobo
from the album Of a Simple Man
B-side	"Am I True to Myself"
Released	September 1972
Format	7" (45 rpm)
Genre	Soft rock[1]
Length	4:04
Label	Big Tree Records
Writer(s)	Lobo
Producer(s)	Phil Gernhard
Certification	Gold (U.S.)
Lobo singles chronology
"A Simple Man" (1972) "I'd Love You to Want Me" (1972) "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" (1972)

"I'd Love You to Want Me" is the title of a popular song from 1972 by Lobo (the stage name of Kent LaVoie). He wrote the song, which appears on his album Of a Simple Man.

Released as a single in the fall of 1972, "I'd Love You to Want Me" was the singer's highest charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at number two in November of that year.^[2] It was kept from the top spot by Johnny Nash's hit song, "I Can See Clearly Now".^[3] The song also spent one week at number one on the Billboard easy listening chart, LaVoie's second of four songs to achieve this feat.^[4] It became a gold record.

When originally released in the United Kingdom in 1972, the song failed to reach the UK Singles Chart; however, a re-release of the single in 1974, on the UK label, peaked at #5.^[5]

The song also topped music charts in Australia (Kent Music Report, two weeks), Canada (RPM Magazine, one week) and Germany (Media Control Charts, 13 weeks in 1973-1974).

The song was originally in B-flat major, a capo is used on the 3rd fret on the guitar.

Cover versions

• Dennis Jones, Dutch cover with Dutch lyrics of Jones entitled "De Zon Die Zal Schijnen", 5 weeks on Dutch Single Top 100 (48) in 2008. Single also included a German version "Du Bist Nicht Alleine" and the English version "I'd Love You To Want Me" with original lyrics as well.
• Croatian band ITD Band recorded their song "Sonja" in 1986 using the vocal melody of "I'd Love You To Want Me".

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts Year Chart Peak position 1972 Canadian RPM Top Singles 1 Billboard Hot 100 2 Billboard Easy Listening 1 Cash Box Top 100 [6] 1 WLS-AM (Chicago) [7] 2 1973 Australian Singles Chart 1 NZ Listener Chart 1 German Singles Chart 1 1974 UK Singles Chart 5

Year-end charts Chart (1972) Rank Canada 26 U.S. -- WLS survey (Chicago) [8] 39 Chart (1973) Rank Australia [9] 8 Chart (1974) Rank UK [10] 61

See also

• List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
• List of RPM number-one singles of 1972
• List of number-one hits of 1973 and 1974 (Germany)
• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1972 (U.S.)

References

1. Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny (1943-07-31). "Lobo | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
3. Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition (Billboard Publications)
4. Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
5. UK Singles Chart info at chartstats.com
6. http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19721202.html
7. http://www.users.qwest.net/~oldiesloon/wls112772.htm
8. http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls89of72.htm
9. http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
10. http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1974.shtml

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics