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Cover of Randy VanWarmer's 1981 LP Beat of Love.

Randy VanWarmer (March 30, 1955 – January 12, 2004) was an American songwriter and guitarist. His biggest success was the pop hit, "Just When I Needed You Most". It reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart and #4 in the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1979. There are several cover versions of this song, including those by Dolly Parton and Smokie. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 216 × 216 pixelsFull resolution (216 × 216 pixel, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cover of Randy Vanwarmers Beat of Love LP. This image is of a cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 216 × 216 pixelsFull resolution (216 × 216 pixel, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cover of Randy Vanwarmers Beat of Love LP. This image is of a cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (90th in leap years). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. ... Smokie is an English glam rock band from Bradford who found success in Europe in the 1970s. ...

VanWarmer wrote several songs for the group The Oak Ridge Boys including "I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes." The song appeared on VanWarmer's 1981 album Beat Of Love, which also included VanWarmer's 1980s style pop tune "Suzie Found A Weapon." Press photo of The Oak Ridge Boys. ...

He was born Randall Van Wormer, in Indian Hills, Colorado. He grew up in Colorado, but in 1970, when he was fifteen, he moved with his mother to Cornwall, England, which, in an 1989 interview with "Release", a now-defunct independent paper run out of Stanford, California, he said he remembered as a depressing place, economically downtrodden, with long, dark and rainy winters. When he was still a teenager, a girlfriend from the United States came to England, spent several months with him, then returned to the U.S. VanWarmer had been writing songs and playing in South England folk music clubs for a while, and the experience with the American girl ultimately became his one hit song. In VanWarmer's mind, he has said, the song is really about the weather. "It's not hard to write a really sad song in the winter in Cornwall," Release quoted him as saying. Indian Hills is a census-designated place located in Jefferson County, Colorado. ... Cornwall (Cornish: ) is a county in South West England, United Kingdom, on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar and Devon. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... “Folk song” redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In 1979, after struggling in obscurity for a few years, Bearsville Records in New York released a VanWarmer single, "Gotta Get Out of Here," a mildly catchy pop tune. "Just When I Needed You Most" was the B-side of the single. Somewhere, on a whim, a DJ decided to play the flip side instead, and it slowly rose to the Top 10 in a market saturated with disco. As VanWarmer told Release, Albert Grossman, the head of Bearsville, who was acting as VanWarmer's manager, would not let him do television or tour the United States, a strategy that did not prove successful. Bearsville Records was started in 1970 by Bob Dylans manager, Albert Grossman. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... A top 10 list is a generic term used to indicate a list of items, usually ten in number, which are considered to be best, worst, or notable in some other way, typically a record chart. ... Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that blends elements of funk and soul music. ... Albert B Grossman Born 1926 Chicago (d. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

His follow-up album, Terraform, was dark and (compared to his previous work) almost alternative. As Release described the record, it included a song relating the bitter post-death ruminations of a paranoid drowned man; a funny anti-love song; and a lengthy, catchy, metaphorical, almost epic pop piece about the destruction of the Earth and humankind's uncertain attempts to survive. According to Release, Terraform received some airplay on a Manhattan progressive rock radio station, where VanWarmer lived at the time; and it sold moderately in Japan and Australia; but in the United States it sank. Bits of it turned up elsewhere (most notably on Laura Brannigan's debut album), but VanWarmer would later publicly rue his decision to turn away from dreamy ballads. He made two more records at Bearsville - Beat of Love, and Things That You Dream. Beat of Love included the single, "Suzie's Got a Weapon", a tribute to a Bearsville P.R. rep whom VanWarmer would later woo and marry, and which went to #1 in Alaska, and gained a certain amount of post mortem acclaim (for example, a rave by James A. Gardner in his "All Music Guide"). But Grossman died soon thereafter, and VanWarmer's future was in doubt. An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Airplay is a technical term used in the radio industry to state how frequently a song is being played on a radio station. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... Laura Branigan Laura Branigan (July 3, 1957 - August 26, 2004) was a popular American singer/actress from Westchester County, New York best known for the song Gloria (1982). ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... Public relations (PR) is the practice of conveying messages to the public through the media on behalf of a client, with the intention of changing the publics actions by influencing their opinions. ... “Matrimony” redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area  Ranked 1st  - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²)  - Width 808 miles (1,300 km)  - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km)  - % water 13. ...

According to Release, in the mid 1980s, Suzie VanWarmer mailed a song called "It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes" from Beat of Love to a friend at MCA, who sent it to Ron Chancey, the producer of the Oak Ridge Boys. His wife loved it, and she asked the Oaks to record it just for her. They did, and liked it enough to put it on their next album. Eventually it came out as a single, and hit number one on the country charts. Charley Pride recorded a song of his, so did Michael Johnson. Moving to Nashville, VanWarmer saw a recording of his song, "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)", also hit number one on the country charts by the group Alabama. The Music Corporation of America was a United States based corporation in the music business. ... Press photo of The Oak Ridge Boys. ... Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938 in Sledge, Mississippi) is a former Negro League baseball player who became one of the very few African Americans to have a successful career in modern country music. ... Michael Johnson (born August 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

VanWarmer continued to write music for others and for his own recordings, which continued to be artistically successful but commercially unsuccessful. He also helped other younger artists with their own songwriting efforts.

His final album was released posthumously only in Japan and was a tribute to Stephen Foster. It was not only a respectful tribute to a songwriter he clearly admired but was also an unexpectedly innovative and at times witty one-man show (according to the CD's liner notes, VanWarmer played all the instruments). That he completed work on the record a few days after learning of his illness, and that he was destined to die on the anniversary of Foster's death (both according to the CD's liner notes), gave the recording an additional element of depth and poignancy. Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the father of American music, was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. ...

He died of leukemia, aged 48. Leukemia or leukaemia (see spelling differences) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ...

Albums

• Warmer - 1979
• Terraform - 1980
• Beat Of Love - 1981
• The Things That You Dream - 1983

Singles

• "Just When I Needed You Most" - US # 4 - June 1979 - AC # 1, 1979 UK # 8.
• "Call Me" - Did not chart
• "Gotta Get Out Of Here" - Did not Chart
• "Whatever You Decide" - US # 77 - August 1980
• "Hanging Onto Heaven"
• "Doesn't Matter Anymore" - Did not Chart
• "All we have is tonight - 1980
• "Suzi Found A Weapon" - US # 55 - July 1981
• "I Will Hold You" - US C&W # 53 - March 1988
• "Where The Rocky Mountains Touch The Morning Sun" - US C&W # 72 - September 1988

External links

• CNN Obituary
• Official Site