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"Really Wanna Know You"
File:Really Wanna Know You - Gary Wright.jpg
Single by Gary Wright
from the album The Right Place
B-side"More Than a Heartache"
ReleasedJuly 1981
GenreRock, Pop
Length4:15
LabelWarner Bros. 49769
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Gary Wright singles chronology
"Touch and Gone"
(1978)
"Really Wanna Know You"
(1981)
"Heartbeat"
(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]

Chart performance

Uses in media

  • It was used in Furby in the episode Night And Half. Furby Orange makes a parody in the music video at the end of the credits.

References

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  2. ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1981-09-12. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  3. ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1981-09-12. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  4. ^ "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1981-11-29. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  5. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 262.
  7. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016.

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