BRENDA LEE - I WANT TO BE WANTED

I WANT TO BE WANTED

BRENDA LEE

SONGWRITER: KIM GANNON; PINO SPOTTI & ALBERTO TESTA

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THIS IS…BRENDA

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1960

"I Want to Be Wanted" is a popular song sung by Brenda Lee that was a number-one song in the United States during the year 1960. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the issue dated October 24, 1960, and remained there for one week. It is na Italian song, Per tutta la vita (For all lifetime), that was in the original version of Never on Sunday. This was Brenda Lee's second number-one single, her first being "I'm Sorry". The English lyrics of "I Want to Be Wanted" were written by Kim Gannon.

Andy Williams released a version as the B-side to his single "Stranger on the Shore". The song was covered by Olivia Newton-John on her 1992 album Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971–1992.

(Wanted wanted)

Alone, so alone that I could cry

I want to be wanted (wanted)

Alone, watching lovers passing by

I want to be wanted

When I am kissed

I want his lips to really kiss me

When we're apart

I want his heart to really miss me

I want to know

He loves me so his eyes are misting

That's the way I want to be loved

Alone, just my lonely heart knows how

I want to be wanted (wanted) right now

Not tomorrow, but right now

I want to be wanted

I want someone

To share my laughter and my tears with

Someone I know

I'd love to spend a million years with

Where is this someone somewhere meant for me?

(Alone) Just my lonely heart knows how

I want to be wanted (right now)

Not tomorrow, but right now

I want to be wanted

I want someone

To share my laughter and my tears with

Someone I know

I'd love to spend a million years with

Where is this someone somewhere meant for me?

(Someone, somewhere) Meant for me.