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| Length = 36:55

| Producer = [[Clarence Paul]], [[William "Mickey" Stevenson]]

| Label = [[Motown Records|Tamla]]<br /><small>TM-251</small>

| Last album = ''[[Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage]]''<br />(1963)

| This album = '''''When I'm Alone I Cry'''''<br />(1964)

| Next album = ''[[Greatest Hits (Marvin Gaye album)|Greatest Hits]]''<br />(1964)

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'''''When I'm Alone I Cry''''' is the third [[studio album]] by [[Marvin Gaye]], released in 1964. It was one of several attempts by the singer and his record company, [[Motown]], to make his name as a [[jazz]] vocalist.

== Recording ==

The album includes ten [[traditional pop music|pop]] and jazz [[standard (music)|standardstandards]]s; at Gaye's request, two of the songs were taken from [[Billie Holiday]]'s album ''[[Lady in Satin]]''. The [[backing track]]s were recorded by [[record producer|producer]] [[Clarence Paul]] in [[New York]] and [[Chicago]], using [[arrangement|arrangers]] [[Jerome Richardson]], [[Melba Liston]], and [[Ernie Wilkins]]. Gaye [[overdub]]bed the vocal tracks after returning to [[Detroit]] from touring.<ref name=ritz>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aAJLQW0oRlgC&pg=PA93&dq=%22When+I%27m+Alone+I+Cry%22+gaye&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipi4S49ILOAhXHJcAKHWgNCLM4ChDoAQgxMAI#v=onepage&q=%22When%20I'm%20Alone%20I%20Cry%22%20gaye&f=false David Ritz, ''Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye", Da Capo Press, 2009, p.93]</ref>

== Reception ==

Critic [[Richie Unterberger]] describes the album as "competently done, but.. supper-club fare, in which Gaye comes off as a sub-[[Nat King Cole]] rather than his own man."<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/when-im-alone-i-cry-mw0000118514 Review by Richie Unterberger, ''Allmusic.com'']. Retrieved 21 July 2016</ref> Gaye's biographer [[David Ritz]] says: "His ballad style remained self-conscious and restrained... The results were flat, though on the up-tempo numbers he swung effortlessly, demonstrating his natural feel for jazz."<ref name=ritz /> After ''When I'm Alone I Cry'' was unsuccessful upon its release, Gaye finally gave way to pressure to record more [[rhythm and blues|R&B]] and [[soul music|soul]] material. By the end of the decade, he had become one of the best-selling and most revered soul artists of his generation.

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== Track listing ==

=== Side one ===

# "[[You've Changed]]" ([[Bill Carey]], [[Carl T. Fischer|Carl Fischer]]) -– 3:33

# "I Was Telling Her About You" ([[Morris Charlap]], [[Don George]]) -– 4:48

# "[[I Wonder (1944 song)|I Wonder]]" ([[Cecil Gant]], Raymond Leaven) -– 3:46

# "[[I'll Be Around (1942 song)|I'll Be Around]]" ([[Alec Wilder]], [[William Engvick]]) -– 4:09

# "[[Because of You (1940 song)|Because of You]]" ([[Arthur Hammerstein]], Dudley Wilkinson) -– 3:34

=== Side two ===

# "[[I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)]]" ([[Fred E. Ahlert]], [[Roy Turk]]) -– 2:46

# "[[I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face]]" ([[Alan Jay Lerner]], [[Frederick Loewe]]) -– 3:32

# "[[When Your Lover Has Gone]]" ([[Einar Aaron Swan]]) -– 4:40

# "When I'm Alone I Cry" ([[Mickey Stevenson|Avery Vandenberg]], [[Morris Broadnax]], Fredericka Foreman) -– 2:47

# "If My Heart Could Sing" (Avery Vandenberg, Morris Broadnax) -– 3:20

== References ==

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[[Category:1964 albums]]

[[Category:Marvin Gaye albums]]

[[Category:albumsAlbums produced by Clarence Paul]]

[[Category:albumsAlbums produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson]]

[[Category:Tamla Records albums]]

[[Category:English-language albums]]