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 (entitled "Non So Più Come Amarlo") (single from "Quei Giorni Insieme A Te" – 1974), and Frances Yip ("Frances Yip's Greatest Hits " - 1972). Kelly Marie, who at sixteen had won four times on "Opportunity Knocks" singing "I Don't Know How to Love Him", recorded a disco version of the song which appears on the 2003 album "Applause". Nell Carter performed "I Don't Know How to Love Him" in an episode of the NBC-TV sitcom "Gimme a Break!" entitled "Flashback" which was broadcast 26 January 1984. Alicja Janosz, winner of the first edition of Polish Idol, performed the song