I WANNA BE LOVED
From the 1933 Broadway Revue "Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt" (1933)
(Lyrics: Billy Rose & Edward Heyman / Music: Johnny Green)

Fred Rich & His Orch. (vocal: Vera Van) - 1934
The Andrews Sisters - 1950
Tony Bennett - 1952
Julie London - 1957
Peggy Lee - 1960
Paul Anka - 1962
Dinah Washington - 1962
The Andrews Sisters - 1962 (Re-recording)
Ann-Margret - 1963
George Maharis - 1963
Bobby Vinton - 1964
Jerry Vale - 1968
Mina - 1969
Maria Muldaur - 1999

Also recorded by:
Sue Allen & Russell Garcia; Mark Isham & Kate Ceberano;
Grant Green; Billy Eckstine  ....... and many others. 



I wanna be loved with inspiration
I wanna be loved starting tonight
Instead of merely holding conversation
Hold me tight

I wanna be kissed until I tingle
I wanna be kissed starting tonight
Embrace until our heartbeats intermingle
Wrong or right

I feel like acting my age
I'm past the stage of merely turtledoving
I'm in no mood to resist
And I insist the world owes me a loving

I wanna be thrilled to desperation
I wanna be thrilled starting tonight
With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna be loved

I wanna be thrilled by only you, dear
I wanna be thrilled, thrilled by your caress
With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved

With every kind of wonderful sensation
I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2018)