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 Brightman ("Sarah Brightman Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" – 1992), Julia McKenzie ("The Musicals Album" – 1992), Lea Salonga ("The Broadway Concert" – 1992), Twiggy ("London Pride: songs from the London stage" - 1996), and Ruthie Henshall (non-album cut - 2011). Also Helena Vondráčková, who had recorded the Czech rendering "Já, Máří Magdaléna" for her 1993 showtune album "Brodway", recorded "I Don't know How to Love Him", for that album's 1994 English-language edition: "The Broadway Album". Sandy Lam performed the song in the "Andrew Lloyd Webber: Masterpiece: Live From the Great Hall of the People, Beijing" televised concert