After recording “Simply Once I Wanted You Most” for an album recorded for the UK division of Bearsville Information, VanWarmer then flew to the US to stress Bearsville’s head workplace to advertise the album which was duly remixed and launched with “Simply Once I Wanted You Most” as lead single though VanWarmer would recall that Bearsville evinced little enthusiasm for the observe:

“No one thought my model was an particularly good model of the music [which] a number of different individuals have been considering of reducing…Everyone simply assumed mine was a demo for individuals to hearken to who’d [then] reduce the definitive model”.

It has additionally been asserted that “Your Gentle” the flip was the unique supposed A-side of VanWarmer’s single. Launched as a single in February 1979, VanWarmer’s “Simply Once I Wanted You Most” spent two weeks atop the US Billboard grownup up to date chart in Could of that 12 months and in June 1979 reached its peak place of No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart accruing an total High 40 tenure of 14 weeks and incomes RIAA Gold file 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 situation: “It’s occurred to everybody.

That emotion is common…I all the time hoped the file 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.