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Lobo often shows up on lists of one hit wonders even though the artist actually had a string of hits between 1971 and 1973 and continued cracking the Top 40 into 1974. Perhaps the misperception is due to I’d Love You to Want Me being such a big hit, selling a million copies earning gold disc status. Written by Roland Kent Lavoie and from the album “Of a Simple Man,” the song reached no. 2 on the Billboard charts in November 1972. In all, it spent 14 weeks on the charts, among such classic hits as I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash and Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues. I’d Love You to Want Me was also no. 1 in Germany (1972), and no. 5 in the U.K. (1974).
Chorus
Baby, I’d love you to want me
The way that I want you
The way that it should be
Baby, you’d love me to want you
The way that I want to
If you’d only let it be
Lobo was the stage name of singer-songwriter Roland Kent LaVoie. His other hits include:
- Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, 1971 (Honey Honey: The Sound of Bubblegum Pop)
- Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend, 1973 (Of a Simple Man)
- How Can I Tell Her, 1973 (Calumet)
- It Sure Took a Long, Long Time, 1973 (Calumet)
- Don’t Tell Me Goodnight, 1975 (A Cowboy Afraid Of Horses)
- Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love, 1979 (Lobo)