Taking a Chance on Love
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- For the 2004 album by Jane Monheit, see Taking a Chance on Love (2004 Jane Monheit album)
"Taking a Chance on Love" is a popular song, by Vernon Duke, John Latouche, and Ted Fetter, published in 1940, which has become a standard, recorded by many artists. It was introduced in the 1940 show Cabin in the Sky, a ground-breaking Broadway musical with an all black cast, where it was performed by Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson. The re-released Benny Goodman version featuring Helen Forrest reached #1 in 1943.
The success of the song is largely due to the skilfully subtle lyrics, for example:
- Things are mending now
- I see a rainbow blending now
- We'll have a happy ending now
- Taking a chance on love
which is not to overlook the tune with its skipping rhythm and upward motif representing happy optimism.
[edit] Recorded versions
- Eddie Arnold
- Tony Bennett
- Ruby Braff
- Les Brown & his Orchestra
- Dave Brubeck
- Charlie Byrd
- Benny Carter
- June Christy
- Rosemary Clooney
- Alma Cogan
- Nat King Cole
- Ray Conniff
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Buddy DeFranco
- Marlene Dietrich
- Tommy Dorsey
- Anne Ducros
- Billy Eckstine
- Michael Feinstein
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Helen Forrest
- The Four Lads
- Judy Garland
- Erroll Garner
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Kenny Drew
- Benny Goodman
- Eydie Gorme
- Stephane Grappelli
- Buddy Greco
- Ted Heath
- Raiatea Helm
- Salena Jones
- Sammy Kaye
- Stan Kenton
- Cleo Laine
- Frankie Laine
- Sara Lazarus
- Peggy Lee
- Harpo Marx
- Johnny Mathis
- Susannah McCorkle
- Liza Minnelli
- Gerry Mulligan
- Helen O'Connell
- Anita O'Day
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Patti Page
- The Pied Pipers
- George Shearing
- Anne Shelton
- Dinah Shore
- Zoot Sims
- Frank Sinatra
- Jo Stafford
- Rod Stewart
- Barbra Streisand
- Maxine Sullivan
- Mel Tormé
- Dionne Warwick
- Ethel Waters
- Teddy Wilson
- Lester Young
- Jane Monheit
- Powell's Place, Featuring Shannon Powell
- Renee Olstead
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