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Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance

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Released
  
November 1961

Studio
  
Hitsville USA

Release date
  
November 1961

Genre
  
Soul music

Recorded
  
1960-61

Artist
  
Mary Wells

Label
  
Revolver Music

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Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance (1961)
  
The One Who Really Loves You (1962)

Producers
  
Berry Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson

Similar
  
Mary Wells albums, Soul music albums

Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance is the debut album by Motown recording artist Mary Wells, released on Motown in 1961. The album didn't chart but yielded two hit singles for the teenaged Wells including "Bye Bye Baby", which she issued in late 1960, and a song she had originally written as a demo for Jackie Wilson, and "I Don't Want to Take a Chance", a song written for her by Berry Gordy and Mickey Stevenson. Wells' follow-up album, The One Who Really Loves You, was released in 1962.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Come to Me" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Marv Johnson)
  2. "I Don't Want to Take a Chance" (Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson)
  3. "Bye Bye Baby" (Mary Wells)
  4. "Shop Around" (Smokey Robinson, Gordy)
  5. "I Love the Way You Love" (Gordy, John Oden, Stanley Mike Ossman)

Side two

  1. "I'm Gonna Stay" (Gordy)
  2. "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" (Gordy)
  3. "Bad Boy" (Robinson, Gordy)
  4. "I'm So Sorry" (Gordy, Earl Brooks)
  5. "Please Forgive Me" (Gordy)

Personnel

  • Mary Wells: lead vocal
  • The Andantes: background vocals (on "Come to Me", "I Love the Way You Love", "I'm Gonna Stay", "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" and "Bad Boy")
  • The Love Tones (Carl Jones, Joe Miles and Stan Bracely): background vocals (on "Shop Around")
  • The Rayber Voices (Raynoma Liles Gordy, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders): background vocals (on "Bye Bye Baby")
  • Robert Bateman also provides backing vocals on "Come to Me"
  • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

    • Songs

    1Come to Me2:17
    2I Don't Want to Take a Chance2:50
    3Bye Bye Baby2:55

    References

    Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance Wikipedia
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