Really Wanna Know You
1981 single by Gary Wright
"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. 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.
A music video was also produced for the song, which depicts Wright in a dream-like setting which includes a bedroom with a mysterious woman, and a futuristic junkyard full of trash and shopping carts, among other items.
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