I Don't Know How to Love Him

"I Don't Know How to Love Him"
side-A label by Decca Records (US)
A-side label of the US single
Single by Yvonne Elliman
from the album Jesus Christ Superstar
B-side"Overture: Jesus Christ Superstar"
Released1971
Recorded1970
StudioOlympic, London
GenreFolk
Length3:36
LabelDecca, MCA
Composer(s)Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyricist(s)Tim Rice
Producer(s)
  • Lloyd Webber
  • Rice
Yvonne Elliman singles chronology
"I Don't Know How to Love Him"
(1971)
"Everything's Alright"
(1971)
Audio sample
"I Don't Know How to Love Him"
Lyrics video
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Yvonne Elliman – "I Don't Know How to Love Him" on YouTube

"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.

  1. ^ Sinclair, Tom (8 August 1997). "You Only 'Live' Twice". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2011.