I WANNA BE LOVED
The Andrews Sisters
— words by Billy Rose and Eddie Heyman, music by Johnny Green
— The Andrews Sisters had a # 1 hit with «I Wanna Be Loved» 20 years after
The song was first introduced
— lyrics as recorded in Los Angeles March 30, 1950 by The Andrews Sisters
With Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra. Lead vocal by Patty Andrews.
— Also charted in 1950 by Billy Eckstine (# 7); Hugo Winterhalter (# 11); Dinah
Washington (# 22); Dottie O’Brien (# 23); and Jan Garber (# 28).
I wanna be loved with inspiration
I wanna be loved starting tonight
Instead of merely holding conversation
Hold me tight
I wanna be kissed until I tingle
I wanna be kissed starting tonight
Embrace until our heartbeats intermingle
Wrong or right
I feel like acting my age
I’m past the stage of merely turtledoving
(be careful, be careful what you do)
I’m in no mood to resist
And I insist the world owes me a loving
I wanna be thrilled to desperation
I wanna be thrilled starting tonight
(love me, love me, love me)
With every kind of wonderful sensation