When I'm Alone I Cry

When I'm Alone I Cry
Studio album by Marvin Gaye
Released April 1, 1964
Recorded 1963–64
Genre Soul, jazz
Label Tamla
TM-251
Marvin Gaye chronology

Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage
(1963)
When I'm Alone I Cry
(1964)
Greatest Hits
(1964)

When I'm Alone I Cry is the third studio album by Marvin Gaye, released in 1964. It was one of several attempts of the singer to make a name for himself as a jazz vocalist.

After When I'm Alone I Cry was unsuccessful upon its release, Gaye finally balked under 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

  1. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer)
  2. "I Was Telling Her About You"
  3. "I Wonder"
  4. "I'll Be Around"
  5. "Because of You"

Side two

  1. "I Don't Know Why"
  2. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe)
  3. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan)
  4. "When I'm Alone I Cry" (Avery Vandenberg, Morris Broadnax, Fredericka Foreman)
  5. "If My Heart Could Sing" (Vandenberg, Broadnax)