Marvin Gaye - When I'm Alone I Cry

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140 Gram Limited Edition Vinyl

For his third LP, When I’m Alone I Cry, issued by Motown in 1964, Marvin Gaye presented himself in the role of a big band singer. The set includes several pop/jazz standards, and Gaye himself requested to sing two of the songs from Billie Holiday’s classic next-to-last album, Lady in Satin, “I’ll Be Around” and “You’ve Changed.” With brooding vocals, and arrangements by such big names as Melba Liston, Jerome Richardson and Ernie Wilkins, the album showed us a deeper artist, presaging the mature Marvin later heard on Vulnerable, and remains an essential piece of the man’s extensive discography.

Tracklist:

Side 1

1. YOU’VE CHANGED (Carl Fisher, Bill Carey)
2. I WAS TELLING HER ABOUT YOU (Don George, Marvin Chalap)
3. I WONDER (Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen)
4. I’LL BE AROUND (Alec Wilder, William Engvick)
5. BECAUSE OF YOU (Oscar Hammerstein II, Dudley Wilkinson)

Side 2

1. I DON’T KNOW WHY (Fred Ahlert, Roy Turk)
2. I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner)
3. WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE (Einar Aaron Swan)
4. WHEN I’M ALONE I CRY (Avery Vandenburg, Morris Broadnax, Frederick Foreman)
5. IF MY HEART COULD SING (Avery Vandenburg, Morris Broadnax)

Personnel:

Produced by Stevenson & Paul

Liner Notes Lee Ivory

Cover Photo &  Design Bernard Yeszin

Wallace Mead