I Want to Be Loved Like That

"I Want to Be Loved Like That"
Single by Shenandoah
from the album Under the Kudzu
B-side "Just Say the Word"[1]
Released September 27, 1993
Format 7" single, CD single
Genre Country
Length 3:43
Label RCA Nashville
Writer(s) Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, Bill LaBounty
Producer Don Cook
Shenandoah singles chronology
"Janie Baker's Love Slave"
(1993)
"I Want to Be Loved Like That"
(1993)
"If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)"
(1994)

"I Want to Be Loved Like That" is the title of a song written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin and Bill LaBounty. It was recorded by the American country music band Shenandoah for its fifth studio album, Under the Kudzu. It was released in September 1993 as a single and the song spent twenty weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts, reaching a peak of #3. It also went to #2 on Gavin Report and #1 on Radio & Records.[2] The song also peaked at #4 on the RPM Country Tracks charts dated for January 24, 1994.[3]

Content

The song is a ballad, in which the narrator gives examples of relationships like Natalie Wood and James Dean, and his mother and father, and then states that he wants to be loved with the same affection that they had for each other.

Chart performance

"I Want to Be Loved Like That" debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 9, 1993.

Chart (1993-1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 4

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 378. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
  2. ^ Stambler, Irwin; Grelun Landon (2000). Country Music: The Encyclopedia. Macmillan. pp. 435–436. ISBN 0312264879. 
  3. ^ "Country Tracks". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2366&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=ckh4bv0p2vm0p6eusp2hqqm760. Retrieved 18 August 2010.