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 cachet of performing as Mary Magdalena in that stage production it was her single which became the hit, besting Lyngstad's "Allting Skall Bli Bra"/"Vad Gör Jag Med Min Kärlek?" and also a cover version of "Vad Gör Jag Med Min Kärlek?" by . "I Don't Know How to Love Him" has also been recorded (with parent album) by Madeline Bell (on multi-artist album "Musical Cocktail" – 1995), Debra Byrne (credited as Debbie on multi-artist album "Young Talent Time" by Young Talent Team – 1973), Mary Byrne ("...with Love" – 2011), Chelsia Chan ("Dark Side of Your Mind" – 1975), Judy