I'd Love You to Want Me

"I'd Love You to Want Me" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lobo. It was released in the fall of 1972 as the second single from his second album Of a Simple Man.

"I'd Love You to Want Me"
Single by Lobo
from the album Of a Simple Man
B-side"Am I True to Myself"
ReleasedSeptember 1972
GenreFolk rock, soft rock[1]
Length4:04
LabelBig Tree Records, UK Records
Songwriter(s)Roland Kent LaVoie (Lobo)
Producer(s)Phil Gernhard
Lobo singles chronology
"A Simple Man"
(1972)		 "I'd Love You to Want Me"
(1972)		 "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend"
(1972)

The song was the singer's highest charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No. 2 in November of that year,[2][3] The single was the second of four of his songs to hit No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a one-week stay at that top spot in December 1972.[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 record label, peaked at No. 5.[5]

The song also topped the music charts in at least seven nations, including 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
  • Liza Minnelli covered this song for her 1973 album The Singer
  • Jamaican reggae artist Horace Andy released a cover version of the song as a single in 1973.[6]
  • Hong Kong singer Sam Hui covers in Cantonese version "Chun Meng Liang Xiao" (春梦良宵) in 1974
  • Croatian band ITD Band recorded their song "Sonja" in 1986 using the vocal melody of "I'd Love You To Want Me".
  • German metal band Bonfire covered the song for their 1996 album Feels Like Comin' Home.
  • Marcel Romanoff covered this song in 1997.
  • Swedish pop group Friends covered the song for their 2001 album Listen To Your Heartbeat.
  • Dennis Jones, covered it with Dutch lyrics entitled "De Zon Die Zal Schijnen"; it stayed 5 weeks on Dutch Single Top 100 (48) in 2008. The 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.
  • Brazilian trio KLB covered it with Portuguese lyrics entitled "Ela Não Está Aqui" for it 2000 self-titled debut album; it topped on Brasil Hot 100 in 2000.
  • Declan Galbraith covered this song for his 2018 album Greatest Hits.
  • Cambodian singer Pov Vannary, who was murdered by the Khmer Rouge, recorded a Khmer-English cover of this song, "Onlong Mon Sene," in the early 1970s.

Chart performance
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