Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me

Lobo found the song’s inspiration in his high school art class years before he actually wrote the lovelorn ballad. “I wanted to write the big ballad. There was a conscious effort to do that. The premise behind that was what I imagined in school. I had a really pretty art teacher,” he told loBURN Magazine in 2015. “I was a high school senior and the teacher was 22. And she looked at me and I looked at her and there was a connection. That line, ‘The obligation that you made, for the title that they gave,’ was about that. It was the love you couldn’t have. You know?”

The song was Lobo’s highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No. 2 in November. 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. It became a gold record.

When 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.

This was used on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the 2012 episode, “Tressed To Kill.”

“I’d Love You to Want Me” – Single by Lobo from the album Of a Simple Man.
Released September 1972
Songwriter Roland Kent LaVoie (Lobo)
Charted No.2 US, No.5 UK, No.1 West Germany, No.1 Australia, No.1 Austria, No.1 Canada