| I Don't Want to Take a Chance | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Mary Wells |
| Album: | Bye Bye Baby/I Don't Want to Take a Chance |
| B-Side: | I'm So Sorry |
| Released: | 1961 |
| Recorded: | 1961, Hitsville USA |
| Genre: | Soul |
| Length: | 2:49 |
| Label: | Motown |
| Producer: | Berry Gordy |
| Prev Title: | Bye Bye Baby |
| Prev Year: | 1960 |
| Next Title: | Strange Love |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
"I Don't Want to Take a Chance" is a single released by Mary Wells in 1961 on the Motown label. It was the second single release from Wells, who hit the charts with her Jackie Wilson-esque "Bye Bye Baby".
While that song was able to reach the top fifty of the pop singles chart, the string-laden follow-up performed better reaching number thirty-three on the US pop chart and peaking at number-nine on the R&B singles chart.[1]
The song became one of the first nationally released Motown singles to reach the top forty on the pop chart after Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)" and The Miracles' "Shop Around".