The song appeared on his 1981 album Beat of Love, which also included the "Suzi Found a Weapon", which hit No.
[8] At 15, three years after the death of his father in an automobile accident, he moved with his mother to Cornwall, England.
In a 1989 interview with Release,[9] a now-defunct independent paper from Stanford, California, Van Warmer said that Albert Grossman, the head of Bearsville Records, would not let him do television or tour the United States, a strategy that did not prove successful.
Beat of Love included the single "Suzi Found a Weapon", a tribute to a Bearsville public relations rep whom VanWarmer would later marry, and which went to No.
1 in Alaska and gained a certain amount of posthumous acclaim (for example, a review by James A. Gardner in AllMusic).
VanWarmer moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and the recording of his song, "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" by the band Alabama hit No.