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==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 balkedgave underway 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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