Lobo - I’d Love You To Want Me • TopPop

Kent LaVoie (born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo, is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo“, “I’d Love You to Want Me“, and “Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend“. These three songs, along with “Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love”, gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart. “I’d Love You to Want Me“ is the title of a popular song from 1972 by Lobo (the stage name of Roland Kent LaVoie). He wrote the song, which appears on his album ’Of A Simple Man’. Released as a single in the fall of 1972, “I’d Love You to Want Me“ was the singer’s highest charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No. 2 in November of that year. It was kept from the top spot by Johnny Nash’s hit song, “I Can See Clearly Now“. The single was