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
I Don't Know How to Love Him reach No. 99 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 that March. Dutch vocalist Bojoura had a 1971 single release of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" with the song relegated to B-side status, the single's A-side being "Everything's Alright". The appearance of Helen Reddy's version on the "Billboard" Hot 100 also drew the single release of the version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Petula Clark which single – produced by Johnny Harris – would be Clark's last released on Warner Brothers. In the British Isles "I Don't Know How to Love Him" first became a hit