"I Want to Be Wanted" is a popular song sung by Brenda Lee
that was a number-one song in the United States during the year
1960. It topped the Hot 100 singles chart for the issue dated
October 24, 1960, and remained there for one week. It is an
Italian song that was in the original version of
Never on Sunday. This was Brenda Lee's second number-one
single, her first being "I'm Sorry". The English lyrics of "I
Want to Be Wanted" were written by Kim Gannon.