I’d Love You To Want Me – LOBO (1972)

“I’d Love You to Want Me” is the title of a popular song from 1972 by Lobo (the stage name of Roland 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 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 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.

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