I Don't Want to Take a Chance
1961 single by Mary Wells
"I Don't Want to Take a Chance" | ||||
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Single by Mary Wells | ||||
from the album Bye Bye Baby/I Don't Want to Take a Chance | ||||
B-side | "I'm So Sorry" | |||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | 1961, Hitsville USA | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 2:49 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Songwriter(s) | Berry Gordy William "Mickey" Stevenson | |||
Producer(s) | Berry Gordy | |||
Mary Wells singles chronology | ||||
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"I Don't Want to Take a Chance" is a single released by Mary Wells in 1961 on the Motown label. It was the second single release from Wells, who hit the charts with her Jackie Wilson-esque "Bye Bye Baby".
While that song was able to reach the top fifty of the pop singles chart, the string-laden follow-up performed better reaching number thirty-three on the US pop chart and peaking at number-nine on the R&B singles chart.[1]
The song became one of the first nationally released Motown singles to reach the top forty on the pop chart after Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)" and The Miracles' "Shop Around".
Personnel
- Vocal by Mary Wells
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
- Strings played by assorted musicians
- Written by Berry Gordy and William "Mickey" Stevenson
- Produced by Berry Gordy
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 617.
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- Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance (1961)
- The One Who Really Loves You (1962)
- Two Lovers and Other Great Hits (1963)
- Mary Wells Sings My Guy (1964)
- Mary Wells (1965)
- The Two Sides of Mary Wells (1966)
- Servin' Up Some Soul (1968)
- In and Out of Love (1981)
- Keeping My Mind on Love (1990)
- Recorded Live On Stage (1963)
- Together (1964)
- Love Songs to the Beatles (1965)
- Greatest Hits (1966)
- Vintage Stock (1966)
- Easy Touch (1982)
- The Old, The New & The Best of Mary Wells (1983)
(US Top 40)
- "I Don't Want to Take a Chance"
- "The One Who Really Loves You"
- "You Beat Me to the Punch"
- "Two Lovers"
- "Laughing Boy"
- "Your Old Standby"
- "What's Easy for Two Is Hard for One"/
- "You Lost the Sweetest Boy"
- "My Guy"
- "Once Upon a Time"
- "What's the Matter with You Baby"
- "Use Your Head"
- Discography
- Albums
- Songs
- Smokey Robinson
- Marvin Gaye
- Cecil Womack
- Meech Wells
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