Taking a Chance on Love

:"For the 2004 album by Jane Monheit," "see Taking a Chance on Love (2004 Jane Monheit album)"

"Taking a Chance on Love" is a popular song, by Vernon Duke, John Latouche, and Ted Fetter, published in 1940, which has become a standard, recorded by many artists. It was introduced in the 1940 show "Cabin in the Sky", a ground-breaking Broadway musical with an all black cast, where it was performed by Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson. The re-released Benny Goodman version featuring Helen Forrest reached #1 in 1943.

The success of the song is largely due to the skillfully subtle lyrics, for example:

:Things are mending now:I see a rainbow blending now:We'll have a happy ending now:Taking a chance on love

which is not to overlook the tune with its skipping rhythm and upward motif representing happy optimism.

Recorded versions

*Eddie Arnold
*Tony Bennett
*Ruby Braff
*Les Brown & his Orchestra
*Dave Brubeck
*Charlie Byrd
*Benny Carter
*June Christy
*Rosemary Clooney
*Alma Cogan
*Nat King Cole
*Ray Conniff
*Dorothy Dandridge
*Buddy DeFranco
*Marlene Dietrich
*Tommy Dorsey
*Anne Ducros
*Billy Eckstine
*Michael Feinstein
*Ella Fitzgerald
*Helen Forrest
*The Four Lads
*Judy Garland
*Erroll Garner
*Dizzy Gillespie
*Kenny Drew
*Benny Goodman
*Eydie Gorme
*Stephane Grappelli
*Buddy Greco
*Ted Heath
*Raiatea Helm
*Salena Jones
*Sammy Kaye
*Stan Kenton
*Cleo Laine
*Frankie Laine
*Sara Lazarus
*Peggy Lee
*Harpo Marx
*Johnny Mathis
*Susannah McCorkle
*Liza Minnelli
*Jane Monheit
*Gerry Mulligan
*Helen O'Connell
*Anita O'Day
*Gilbert O'Sullivan
*Renee Olstead
*Patti Page
*The Pied Pipers
*George Shearing
*Anne Shelton
*Dinah Shore
*Zoot Sims
*Frank Sinatra
*Jo Stafford
*Rod Stewart
*Barbra Streisand
*Maxine Sullivan
*Mel Tormé
*Dionne Warwick
*Ethel Waters
*Carol Welsman
*Teddy Wilson
*Lester Young

External links

* [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/takingachanceonlove.htm Taking a Chance on Love at jazzstandards.com]