RANDY VANWARMER

b. Randall Van Wormer, 30 March 1955, Indian Hills, Colorado, USA. Randy Vanwarmer is best remembered for his 1979 US Top 5/UK Top 10 single “Just When I Needed You Most”. Vanwarmer and his mother moved to England when Randy was 12, following the death of his father in an automobile accident. He began singing and making demo tapes and in 1979 moved back to the USA, settling in Woodstock, New York. He signed with Bearsville Records, based in Woodstock, and recorded his own composition, “Just When I Needed You Most”, that same year. The easy-listening hit was followed by two more minor chart singles and a low-charting album, Warmer, also in 1979. Vanwarmer never returned to the pop scene but in 1988 he made the country charts with two singles, “I Will Hold You” and “Where The Rocky Mountains Touch The Morning Sun”, on 16th Avenue Records. He also recorded an album for that company, I Am, that was not a success. Another of his songs, “I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometime”, was sung at Ernest Tubb's funeral.

Discography: Warmer (Bearsville 1979)**, Terraform (Bearsville 1980)*** Beat Of Love (Bearsville 1981)***, Thing That You Dream (Bearsville 1983)**, I Am (16th Avenue 1988)**, The Vital Spark (Alias 1994)**, The Third Child (Demon 1995)***.