Really Wanna Know You | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Gary Wright |
Album: | The Right Place |
B-Side: | More Than a Heartache |
Released: | July 1981 |
Genre: | Pop, synth-pop, soft rock |
Length: | 4:15 |
Label: | Warner Bros. 49769 |
Prev Title: | Touch and Gone |
Prev Year: | 1978 |
Next Title: | Heartbeat |
Next Year: | 1981 |
"Really Wanna Know You" is a 1981 song by Gary Wright that was a hit single in the U.S., reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was taken from the album The Right Place. The song spent 17 weeks on the chart and became Wright's third biggest U.S. hit. It was his final charting single.
Billboard ranked "Really Wanna Know You" as the No. 96th biggest hit of 1981. In Canada, the song reached No. 14.[2]
A music video was also produced for the song, which depicts Wright in a dream-like setting which includes in a bedroom with a mysterious woman, and a futuristic junkyard full of trash and shopping carts, among other items.
Chart (1981) | Peak position | |
---|---|---|
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 49 | |
Canada RPM Top Singles[4] | 14 | |
New Zealand[5] | 39 | |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] | 16 | |
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[7] | 32 | |
17 | ||
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 | 19 | |
U.S. Record World | 23 |
. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 343.
. Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 262.