When I'm Alone I Cry
When I'm Alone I Cry | ||||
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Studio album by Marvin Gaye | ||||
Released | April 1, 1964 | |||
Recorded | 1963–64 | |||
Studio | unspecified studios in New York City and Chicago; vocals recorded at Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan | |||
Genre | Soul, jazz | |||
Length | 36:55 | |||
Label | Tamla TM-251 | |||
Producer | Clarence Paul, William "Mickey" Stevenson | |||
Marvin Gaye chronology | ||||
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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 pop and jazz standards; at Gaye's request, two of the songs were taken from Billie Holiday's album Lady in Satin. The backing tracks were recorded by producer Clarence Paul in New York City and Chicago, using arrangers Jerome Richardson, Melba Liston, and Ernie Wilkins. Gaye overdubbed the vocal tracks after returning to Detroit from touring.[1]
Critical 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."[2] 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."[1] After When I'm Alone I Cry was unsuccessful upon its release, Gaye finally gave way to pressure to record more R&B and 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 Fischer) – 3:33
- "I Was Telling Her About You" (Morris Charlap, Don George) – 4:48
- "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant, Raymond Leaven) – 3:46
- "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder, William Engvick) – 4:09
- "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" (Avery Vandenberg, Morris Broadnax, Fredericka Foreman) – 2:47
- "If My Heart Could Sing" (Avery Vandenberg, Morris Broadnax) – 3:20
References
- ^ a b Ritz, David (2009). Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye. Hachette Books. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7867-3046-9. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ "Review by Richie Unterberger". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
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- The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye (1961)
- That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)
- When I'm Alone I Cry (1964)
- Hello Broadway (1964)
- How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You (1965)
- A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965)
- Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966)
- In the Groove (1968)
- M.P.G. (1969)
- That's the Way Love Is (1970)
- What's Going On (1971)
- Trouble Man (1972)
- Let's Get It On (1973)
- I Want You (1976)
- Here, My Dear (1978)
- In Our Lifetime (1981)
- Midnight Love (1982)
- Dream of a Lifetime (1985)
- Romantically Yours (1985)
- Vulnerable (1997)
- You're the Man (2019)
- Together (with Mary Wells, 1964)
- Take Two (with Kim Weston, 1966)
- United (with Tammi Terrell, 1967)
- You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell, 1968)
- Easy (with Tammi Terrell, 1969)
- Diana & Marvin (with Diana Ross, 1973)
- Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage (1963)
- Marvin Gaye Live! (1974)
- Live at the London Palladium (1977)
- Marvin Gaye at the Copa (2005)
- What's Going On Live (2019)
- Greatest Hits (1964)
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1967)
- Marvin Gaye and His Girls (1969)
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits (1970)
- Super Hits (1970)
- Anthology (1974)
- Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits (1976)
- Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters (1986)
- The Marvin Gaye Collection (1990)
- The Norman Whitfield Sessions (1994)
- Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased (1994)
- The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994)
- The Master (1961–1984) (1995)
- Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs (2000)
- The Complete Duets (2001)
- The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (2001)
- The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) (2006)
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