I Don't Want to Take a Chance

I Don't Want to Take a Chance

Infobox Single
Name = I Don't Want to Take a Chance
Artist = Mary Wells
from Album = Bye Bye Baby/I Don't Want to Take a Chance
Format = 7" single
Released = 1961
Recorded = 1961, Hitsville USA
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:49
Label = Motown
M 1011
Writer = Berry Gordy
William "Mickey" Stevenson
Producer = Berry Gordy
Last single = "Bye Bye Baby"
(1960)
This single = "I Don't Want to Take a Chance"
(1961)
Next single = "Strange Love"
(1961)

"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.

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".

Credits

*Lead 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


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