After recording “Simply After I Wanted You Most” for an album recorded for the UK division of Bearsville Information, VanWarmer then flew to the US to strain Bearsville’s head workplace to advertise the album which was duly remixed and launched with “Simply After I Wanted You Most” as lead single though VanWarmer would recall that Bearsville evinced little enthusiasm for the observe:
“No person thought my model was an particularly good model of the track [which] just a few different folks had been considering of slicing…Everyone simply assumed mine was a demo for folks to take heed to who’d [then] lower the definitive model”.
It has additionally been asserted that “Your Gentle” the flip was the unique meant A-side of VanWarmer’s single. Launched as a single in February 1979, VanWarmer’s “Simply After I Wanted You Most” spent two weeks atop the US Billboard grownup modern chart in Might of that 12 months and in June 1979 reached its peak place of No. 4 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart accruing an total High 40 tenure of 14 weeks and incomes RIAA Gold document standing.
As well as, the observe reached No. 71 on the Billboard nation music chart. And in September 1979 made the High 10 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 8. VanWarmer attributed his single’s success to empathy for its heartbreak state of affairs: “It’s occurred to everybody.
That emotion is common…I at all times hoped the document wasn’t wallowing in self-pity and it had some redeeming worth, and I assume it does.”
VanWarmer additionally attributed his single’s success to the autoharp instrumental break between the second and third verses, carried out by John Sebastian.