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

Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Mary Wells
Cover:	Mary wells2.jpg
Released:	November 1961
Recorded:	1960–61
Studio:	Hitsville USA
Genre:	Soul
Label:	Motown
Producer:	Berry Gordy, Mickey Stevenson
Next Title:	The One Who Really Loves You
Next Year:	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", 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.

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, 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