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Warmer (album)

Warmer
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Studio album by Randy VanWarmer
Released 1979
Genre Blues, Funk/Soul, Jazz, Pop, Rock
Label Bearsville Records
Producer Del Newman
Randy VanWarmer chronology
Warmer
(1979)
Terraform
(1980)Terraform1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
Billboard Mixed
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars

Warmer is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Randy VanWarmer.

After moving back to the United States from Cornwall, England in 1978 and settling in Woodstock, New York, twenty-three-year-old VanWarmer signed to local label Bearsville Records. A year later Warmer was released and produced by Del Newman. It was initially released on vinyl, 8-track, and cassette, and in 1995 it was released on compact disc. "Just When I Needed You Most" was written by VanWarmer when he was eighteen and still in England, and the song has been described as "a ballad of heartbreak from a man's point of view." It reached No. 4 on Billboard in 1979.

By December 1980, VanWarmer toured in Europe to support the release of Warmer, as well as Japan and Hong Kong.

A brief review in a 1979 issue of Billboard compares VanWarmer's style of singing on Warmer to that of The Bee Gees, and although the writer felt the album lacked diversity, "Just When I Needed You Most" was regarded as a good cut. According to The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, "Just When I Needed You Most" was the song VanWarmer was "best remembered for."


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