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

Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance
Studio album by Mary Wells
Released	November 1961
Recorded	Hitsville USA, 1960-1961
Genre	Soul
Label	Motown
Producer	Berry Gordy, Mickey Stevenson
Mary Wells chronology
Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance (1961) The One Who Really Loves You (1962)

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.

Track listing

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, Oden, 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

Mary Wells
Studio albums	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)
Other albums	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)
Singles (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"
Related articles	Discography Albums Songs Smokey Robinson Marvin Gaye Cecil Womack Meech Wells
Book:Mary Wells