The Andrews Sisters

 - words by Billy Rose and Eddie Heyman, music by Johnny Green
 - The Andrews Sisters had a # 1 hit with "I Wanna Be Loved" 20 years after
 the song was first introduced
 - lyrics as recorded in Los Angeles March 30, 1950 by The Andrews Sisters
 with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra. Lead vocal by Patty Andrews.
 - Also charted in 1950 by Billy Eckstine (# 7); Hugo Winterhalter (# 11); Dinah
 Washington (# 22); Dottie O'Brien (# 23); and Jan Garber (# 28).

 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
 (be careful, be careful what you do)
 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
 (love me, love me, love me)
 With every kind of wonderful sensation
 I wanna be loved

 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