Billy Eckstine I Wanna Be Loved Lyrics

I Wanna Be Loved Lyrics

- 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
I wanna be loved

I feel like acting my age
I'm past the
stage of merely turtledoving
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
With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna
be loved