When I Get You Alone

Infobox Single
Name = When I Get You Alone


Caption =
Artist = Robin Thicke
from Album = A Beautiful World
A-side = "When I Get You Alone"
B-side =
Released = 2002
Format = 12"
Recorded = 2002
Genre = R&B
Length = 3:37
Label = Nu America/Interscope
Writer = W. Murphy, R. Thicke
Producer = Robin Thicke
Certification =
Chart position =
Artist = Robin Thicke
Type = single
Last single =
This single = "When I Get You Alone"
(2002)
Next single = "Brand New Jones"
(2003)

"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".

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".

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.

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 Top 3. 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.