Ī Finnish rendering of "Just When I Needed You Most" entitled "Juuri Kun Tarvitsin Sua" was recorded by ELF ( fi) for their 1979 album Tarantella-Joe. This version of the song was not released until 1999 when it was included on the "Secret Sessions" CD. In 1978, before it was a hit, "Just When I Needed You Most" was recorded by Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Corky Laing, and Felix Pappalardi. Anne Nolan recorded "Just When I Needed You Most" for her 2013 debut solo album Just One Voice. Dana Winner recorded "Just When I Needed You Most" for her 2011 album Unforgettable. In 2002, the American-Taiwanese singer Will Pan released a bilingual English/Chinese version of the song. ![]() Other artists who either recorded or performed the song in concert include country music singers Tim McGraw, Donna Fargo, Skeeter Davis, Rhonda Vincent and Conway Twitty, R&B vocalist Millie Jackson, the German disco musician Peter Griffin, British glam rock band Smokie, reggae artists Barbara Jones, and Eddie Lovette, Filipino singer Pops Fernandez, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Billy Joe Royal, and the Spanish group Mocedades. The song's co-writer Tony Wilson recorded "Just When I Needed You Most" for his 1979 album Catch One.ĭolly Parton recorded a cover version of the song for her 1996 album, Treasures: this version, which like the VanWarmer original featured John Sebastian on autoharp, reached No. That emotion is universal.I always hoped the record wasn't wallowing in self-pity and it had some redeeming value, and I guess it does." VanWarmer also attributed his single's success to the autoharp instrumental break between the second and third verses, performed by John Sebastian. VanWarmer attributed his single's success to empathy for its heartbreak scenario: "It's happened to everyone. and in September 1979 made the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, accruing an overall Top 40 tenure of 14 weeks and earning RIAA Gold record status. Released as a single in February 1979, VanWarmer's "Just When I Needed You Most" spent two weeks atop the US Billboard adult contemporary chart in May of that year and in June 1979 reached its peak position of No. It has also been asserted that "Your Light" the flip was the original intended A-side of VanWarmer's single. After recording "Just When I Needed You Most" for an album recorded for the UK division of Bearsville Records, VanWarmer then flew to the US to pressure Bearsville's head office to promote the album which was duly remixed and released with "Just When I Needed You Most" as lead single although VanWarmer would recall that Bearsville evinced little enthusiasm for the track: "Nobody thought my version was an especially good version of the song a few other people were thinking of cutting.Everybody just assumed mine was a demo for people to listen to who'd cut the definitive version". He wrote the song six months after that breakup, co-writing it with Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate two years before it became a hit. But people? They let you down just when you needed them most.VanWarmer was inspired to write "Just When I Needed You Most" by two events: his old car, that he loved and used for years, broke down on his way to work in Denver, Colorado, and he experienced a "devastating" breakup with a girlfriend. I reckon it's a mistake to put all of your love into one human being, but not into Jesus. ![]() Rivers of living water are to flow through me as long as I'm in Him and He's in me. I am a branch and He is the vine, He'll never abandon or forsake me. But He said he'd storm the gates of hell for me. I guess the Lord was looking ahead, because He gave me 2 visions of him just a little time before that.Īfter my breakup, I was suicidal for a while, couldn't understand where I'd gone wrong, how my love had failed, and what the heck to do then. I guess that was the toughest moment of my life. She said "I want a divorce." I said, "You got it." Funny, how at that moment, was just when I needed her most. I came home from a forestry contract up on the Alaska highway, minus 50 most days, nine hours drive north of home.made it home every 2 weeks and at the end of it all, I walked in the door and my wife was lying on the couch.
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