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

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

All tracks composed by Berry Gordy, Jr.; except where indicated

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, The Supremes, the Love Tones and the Rayber Voices: background vocals
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers