"Just Around the Corner" is a song by American rock band

Cock Robin "Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 494. Lyrics The earliest record of the rhyme is in ''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'', published in 1744, which noted only the first four verses. The ...

, released as the

lead single A lead single (also known as a debut single) is the first single to be released from a studio album by an artist or a band, usually before the album itself is released and also occasionally on the same day of the album's release date. Release s ...

off their second album ''

After Here Through Midland ''After Here Through Midland'' is the second album by Cock Robin and was released in 1987. Again it was a big success in continental Europe as their first eponymous album, reaching the Top 10, but was largely ignored in the United States where t ...

'' (1987).

Composition

Written by

Peter Kingsbery Peter Kingsbery is an American singer-songwriter who co-founded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s. He grew up in Austin (Texas) where he studied classical music. He moved to Nashville (Tennessee) where he began his career as a musician (he acco ...

and produced by

Don Gehman Don Gehman is an American record producer, engineer, and executive, best known for his work with John Mellencamp and Hootie & the Blowfish. He was one of "the most successful producers of the 1980s and 1990s." As a sound engineer, he also helped ...

, "Just Around the Corner" lasts four minutes and 12 seconds.

Reception

Cash Box ''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', was an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online ...

'' called "Just Around the Corner" "darkly ominous, brooding, yet hopeful – a brilliant cut" with a "highly original sound, with the Call and

Prefab Sprout Prefab Sprout are an English pop band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham who rose to fame during the 1980s. Formed in 1978 by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in 1982, they r ...

possible reference points". Jerry Smith of British magazine ''

Music Week ''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future. History Founded in 1959 as '' Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music W ...

'' described the song as being a "strong, evocative material". The song was a hit in Europe, reaching the Top 20 in several countries, but failed to chart in the band's native country of the US.

Composition

Reception

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