"I Wanna Be Loved" | |
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Song | |
Published | 1933 |
Composer(s) | Johnny Green |
Lyricist(s) | Edward Heyman, Billy Rose |
"I Wanna Be Loved" (from the 1933 version of the 1931 revue Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt ) is a popular song with music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman and Billy Rose, published in 1933.
The song is a standard, with many recorded versions:
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