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I Don't Know How to Love Him

from I Don't Know How To Love Him by Yvonne Elliman

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    Tracklist

    A1
    Look At You, Look At Me
    Written-By – Dave Mason
    4:12
    A2
    I Would Have Had A Good Time
    Written-By – John Kongos
    4:01
    A3
    Can't Find My Way Home
    Written-By – Steve Winwood
    3:09
    A4
    Everyday Of My Life
    Written-By – David Spinozza
    3:50
    A5
    I Don't Know How To Love Him
    Conductor – Alan Doggett
    Written-By – Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber*
    3:32
    B1
    Sugar Babe
    Written-By – Stephen Stills
    4:19
    B2
    Nothing Rhymed
    Written-By – Gilbert O'Sullivan
    3:36
    B3
    World In Changes
    Written-By – Dave Mason
    3:40
    B4
    Interlude For Johnny
    Written-By – Yvonne Elliman
    2:01
    B5
    Speak Your Mind
    Written-By – Marc Benno
    4:35
    B6
    Heat
    Written-By – Bruce Epstein
    2:53

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    Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
    Recorded At – A&R Studios
    Recorded At – Olympic Studios
    Pressed By – Decca Records Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
    Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.

    Credits
    Acoustic Guitar – Bruce Epstein (tracks: B4), Louis Stewart (tracks: A5), Mark Warner (tracks: B4), Yvonne Elliman (tracks: B4)
    Arranged By – Andrew Lloyd Webber (tracks: A5), David Spinozza (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Art Direction, Design – Virginia Clark
    Backing Vocals – Hilda Harris (tracks: A4, B5), Linda November (tracks: A4, B5), Maeretha Stewart (tracks: A4, B5)
    Bass – Alan Weighall (tracks: A5), Stu Woods (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Cello – Barbara Hunter Coke* (tracks: A2, A4)
    Congas, Percussion – Ralph MacDonald (tracks: A3, B6)
    Coordinator [Production Co-ordinator] – Bill Oakes
    Drums – Bruce Rowland (tracks: A5)
    Drums, Percussion – Rick Marotta (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – David Spinozza (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica – Hugh McCracken (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Flugelhorn – Albert A. Delmonte* (tracks: A2, A4)
    Flute – George Young (2) (tracks: A2, A4, B2)
    French Horn – Peter Gordon (8) (tracks: A2, A4, B2)
    Organ [Positive Organ] – Peter Robinson (tracks: A5)
    Organ, Piano, Electric Piano – Ken Ascher (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5, B6)
    Other [Assistant Engineer] – Gary
    Other [Engineered By] – Dixon
    Photography By – Joel Brodsky
    Piano – George Butcher (tracks: A1)
    Producer – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
    Trombone – Garnett Brown (tracks: A2, A4), Dominick J. Monardo* (tracks: A2, A4)
    Viola – Alfred V. Brown* (tracks: A2, A4)
    Violin – David Nadien (tracks: A2, A4), Gene Orloff (tracks: A2, A4), Lewis Eley (tracks: A2, A4), Max Ellen (tracks: A2, A4), Tony Posk (tracks: A2, A4)
    Notes
    DL 7-5341 on cover, DL 75341 on labels.

    A Qwertyuiop Production
    Barcode and Other Identifiers
    Matrix / Runout (Matrix side A, on label): 7-13016
    Matrix / Runout (Matrix side B, on label): 7-13017◆
    Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): MG-7-13016-W-2 2II
    Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): MG-7-13017-W-2 2II

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about

"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an unrequited love for the title character. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs to have had two concurrent recordings reach the Top 40 of the Hot 100 chart in Billboard magazine, specifically those by Helen Reddy and Yvonne Elliman,[1] since the 1950s when multi-version chartings were common.

lyrics

I don't know how to love him
What to do, how to move him
I've been changed, yes really changed
In these past few days
When I've seen myself
I seem like someone else

I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he moves me
He's a man
He's just a man
And I've had so many
Men before
In very many ways
He's just one more

Should I bring him down
Should I scream and shout
Should I speak of love
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I'd come to this
What's it all about?

Don't you think it's rather funny
I should be in this position?
I'm the one
Who's always been
So calm so cool
No lover's fool
Running every show
He scares me so


I never thought I'd come to this
What's it all about?
Yet, If he said he loved me
I'd be lost; I'd be frightened
I couldn't cope
Just couldn't cope
I'd turn my head
I'd back away
I wouldn't want to know
He scares me so
I want him so
I love him so...

credits

from I Don't Know How To Love Him, track released July 1, 1972
Acoustic Guitar – Louis Stewart
Bass – Alan Weighall
Orchestra – Alan Doggett
Drums – Bruce Rowland
Positive Organ – Peter Robinson

Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice

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Yvonne Elliman Honolulu, Hawaii

She got her big break playing Mary Magdalene in the original London production of "Jesus Christ Superstar".
Later, she became part of Eric Clapton's live band before going solo.
Her biggest hit "If I Can't Have You" was taken from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and went to No.1 in the US chart.
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