I Don't Know How to Love Him by Helen Reddy and Yvonne Elliman, since the 1950s when multi-version chartings were common. "I Don't Know How to Love Him" had originally been published with different lyrics in the autumn of 1967, the original title being "Kansas Morning". The melody's main theme has come under some scrutiny for being non-original, being compared to a theme from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor. In December 1969 and January 1970, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice completed "Jesus Christ Superstar", Rice wrote new lyrics to the tune of "Kansas Morning" to provide the solo number for the character of Mary
I Don't Know How to Love Him (album) received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, and on March 29, 2005, it was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being Reddy's eponymous follow-up that originally came out in the fall of 1971. Jeff Wald, Reddy's husband and manager, was persistent in contacting Capitol Records executive Artie Mogull with the hope that he would give his wife her first chance at recording in the US. When Mogull felt inspired to make a hit out of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from "Jesus