I Don’t Know How to Love Him

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM
 
 
“I Don’t Know How to Love Him”  is a song from the 1970 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, since the 1950s when multi-version chartings were common.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Besides “Superstar, another single from the Jesus Christ Superstar album, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” – sung by Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene – was also a big hit. 
 
(October 2014)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021