"I Want to Be Loved Like That" is the title of a song written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin and Bill LaBounty

Bill LaBounty

Bill LaBounty is an American musician. He was initially a singer-songwriter in the soft rock genre, first as a member of the band Fat Chance, and later as a solo artist. As a solo artist, LaBounty recorded six studio albums, including four on Curb Records/Warner Bros. Records...

. It was recorded by the American country music

Country music

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 band Shenandoah

Shenandoah (band)

Shenandoah is an American country music group founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1984 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire...

 for its fifth studio album, Under the Kudzu

Under the Kudzu

Under The Kudzu was the fifth studio album released by country music group Shenandoah. It produced their fifth and last number one hit to date with "If Bubba Can Dance ". Other singles included "Janie Baker's Love Slave", "I Want to Be Loved Like That", and "I'll Go Down Loving You"...

. It was released in September 1993 as a single and the song spent twenty weeks on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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 charts, reaching a peak of #3. It also went to #2 on Gavin Report

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and #1 on Radio & Records

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. The song also peaked at #4 on the RPM

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Country Tracks charts dated for January 24, 1994.

Content

The song is a ballad, in which the narrator gives examples of relationships like Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...

 and James Dean

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James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...

, 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