I Don't Know How to Love Him to Love Him" album included an initial arrangement of Reddy's signature song, "I Am Woman" which via a 1972 re-recording with a new arrangement would prove to be the vehicle to consolidate Reddy's stardom, reaching No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 dated 9 December 1972. The earliest single version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" was that cut by Karen Wyman an artist on the roster of MCA/Decca Records the label of release for the original "Jesus Christ Superstar" album: Wyman's single, produced by Ken Greengrass and Peter Matz, was released in November 1970 in the US
I Don't Know How to Love Him reach No. 99 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 that March. Dutch vocalist Bojoura had a 1971 single release of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" with the song relegated to B-side status, the single's A-side being "Everything's Alright". The appearance of Helen Reddy's version on the "Billboard" Hot 100 also drew the single release of the version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Petula Clark which single – produced by Johnny Harris – would be Clark's last released on Warner Brothers. In the British Isles "I Don't Know How to Love Him" first became a hit