I Don't Know How to Love Him in 1974. Elliman has also performed "I Don't Know How to Love Him" when revisiting her Mary Magdalene role, first at a "Jesus Christ Superstar" concert by the University of Texas at El Paso Dinner Theatre staged 14 April 2003, and then for a live-in-concert one-night only performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar" on 13 August 2006 at the Ricardo Montalban Theater in Los Angeles. Melanie C performed "I Don't Know How to Love Him" in the role of Mary Magdalene during the "Jesus Christ Superstar Live Arena Tour" which had its initial UK run in September - October 2012 also
How to Love 5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, making it his third highest peak on the chart as the primary artist. Lil Wayne performed the song at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. The song features a slow, "stripped down" production from Drum Up (LaMar Seymour, LaNelle Seymour) for Drum Up Digital with Noel "Detail" Fisher based largely around the sounds of an acoustic guitar and drums. Wayne has said the song is about women who "don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love...And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark