Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance
1961 studio album by Mary Wells
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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.[1] The album didn't chart but yielded two hit singles for the teenaged Wells including "Bye Bye Baby", issued in late 1960 (which 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.
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| Released | November 1961 | |||
| Recorded | 1960–61 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville USA | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
| Producer | Berry Gordy, Mickey Stevenson | |||
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Track listing
Side one
- "Come to Me" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Marv Johnson)
- "I Don't Want to Take a Chance" (Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson)
- "Bye Bye Baby" (Mary Wells)
- "Shop Around" (Smokey Robinson, Gordy)
- "I Love the Way You Love" (Gordy, John Oden, Stanley Mike Ossman)
Side two
- "I'm Gonna Stay" (Gordy)
- "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" (Gordy)
- "Bad Boy" (Robinson, Gordy)
- "I'm So Sorry" (Gordy, Earl Brooks)
- "Please Forgive Me" (Gordy)
Personnel
- Mary Wells: lead vocal
- The Andantes: background vocals (on "Come to Me", "I Love the Way You Love", "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide")
- The Supremes: background vocals ("I'm Gonna Stay", "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