When I Get You Alone
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| “When I Get You Alone” | |||||
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| Single by Robin Thicke from the album A Beautiful World |
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| A-side | "When I Get You Alone" | ||||
| Released | 2002 | ||||
| Format | 12" | ||||
| Recorded | 2002 | ||||
| Genre | R&B | ||||
| Length | 3:37 | ||||
| Label | Nu America/Interscope | ||||
| Writer(s) | W. Murphy, R. Thicke | ||||
| Producer | Robin Thicke | ||||
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"When I Get You Alone" is a 2002 single by Robin Thicke, his first ever. It was originally to be featured on his debut album Cherry Blue Skies, before being placed on a revamped version of the album and his first released studio album A Beautiful World.
[edit] Writing and inspiration
The track sampled Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven", which itself sampled Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Songwriting credits thusly went to "Murphy/Thicke".
[edit] Music video
The music video for the song featured an unshaven Thicke, with long, grungy hair, as a courier racing through the streets of Manhattan on a bicycle. It received some rotation on MTV2 and BET's Rated Next and was spun moderately on urban radio.
[edit] Chart performance
"When I Get You Alone" became a global chart success when it peaked within the top 20 in Australia, Belgium, and Italy, and reached the top ten of the singles charts in New Zealand and the Netherlands. However, it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Chart at all. It was included on Thicke's 2002 album Cherry Blue Skies and its 2003 augmented reissue, A Beautiful World.
The song received its most attention in the U.S. in 2007, when American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis performed it during the round of three. It has been a staple of other Idol productions as well, notably appearing on New Zealand Idol and Australian Idol.
This song was also featured in the 2002 film The Rules of Attraction.
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