Recording: Taking a Chance on Love

Performed by
Nat "King" Cole
Recording date
June 11, 1955
First release
On Audio album The Piano Style of Nat "King" Cole (1956)
Comments
Instrumental
Rating

Song info

Song
Taking a Chance on Love
Music written by
Vernon Duke
Lyrics written by
John La Touche, Ted Fetter
First performance
Taking a Chance on Love by Ethel Waters in stage production Cabin in the Sky (October 25, 1940)
Language
English

Versions

Title Performer Release date down Info
1 Taking a Chance on Love Ethel Waters October 25, 1940 (performance date)
2 Taking a Chance on Love Sammy Kaye 1940
3 Taking a Chance on Love Benny Goodman and His Orchestra 1940
4 Taking a Chance on Love Ella Fitzgerald & Her Famous Orchestra 1940
5 Taking a Chance on Love Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians 1941
6 Taking a Chance on Love Ethel Waters With The J.C. Heard Orchestra 1946
7 Taking a Chance on Love Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell 1951
8 Taking a Chance on Love Billy Eckstine and George Shearing 1951
9 Taking a Chance on Love Frank Sinatra August 1954
10 Taking a Chance on Love Ella Fitzgerald 1955
11 Taking a Chance on Love Nellie Lutcher 1955
12 Taking a Chance on Love Dinah Shore 1955
13 Taking a Chance on Love Ray Anthony 1955
14 Taking a Chance on Love The Jerry Fielding Orchestra 1955
15 Taking a Chance on Love Tal Farlow May 31, 1956 (recording date)
16 Taking a Chance on Love Teddi King With Al Cohn and His Orchestra 1956
17 Taking a Chance on Love Jackie Davis 1956
18 Taking a Chance on Love Max Bennett 1956
19 Taking a Chance on Love Frankie Laine and Buck Clayton and His Orchestra 1956
20 Taking a Chance on Love Patti Page, Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra 1956
21 Taking a Chance on Love Nat "King" Cole 1956
22 Taking a Chance on Love Anita O'Day 1957
23 Taking a Chance on Love Tony Bennett 1957
24 Taking a Chance on Love Murray McEachern 1957
25 Taking a Chance on Love Harpo Marx 1958
26 Taking a Chance on Love Tony Bennett - Count Basie and His Orchestra March 9, 1959
27 Taking a Chance on Love Ruby Braff and His Trumpet 1959
28 Taking a Chance on Love Amanda Ambrose 1959
29 Taking a Chance on Love Johnny Mathis 1960
30 Taking a Chance on Love Charlie Shavers and His Orchestra 1961
31 Taking a Chance on Love Carol Sloane 1962
32 Taking a Chance on Love Georgie Auld Quintet 1963
33 Taking a Chance on Love Henry Jerome, His Chorus and Orchestra 1963
34 Taking a Chance on Love June Christy 1963
35 Taking a Chance on Love Barbra Streisand February 1964
36 Taking a Chance on Love Eddy Arnold May 1965
37 Taking a Chance on Love Ray Conniff and The Singers 1965
38 Taking a Chance on Love Milt Buckner 1969
39 Taking a Chance on Love Rowland Greenberg and His Group 1970
40 Taking a Chance on Love Norio Maeda 1976
41 Taking a Chance on Love Al Cohn & Jimmy Rowles 1977
42 Taking a Chance on Love Bob Wilber and the Scott Hamilton Quartet 1977
43 Taking a Chance on Love Shirley Bassey 1978
44 Taking a Chance on Love Ove Linds Sextett 1978
45 Taking a Chance on Love Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini 1986
46 Taking a Chance on Love Wynton Marsalis June 1990
47 Taking a Chance on Love The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra 1992
48 Taking a Chance on Love Spike Robinson and George Masso 1992
49 Taking a Chance on Love Susannah McCorkle 1992
50 Taking a Chance on Love Joshua Redman March 23, 1993
51 Taking a Chance on Love Ray Brown Trio 1993
52 Taking a Chance on Love Jessica Williams 1993
53 Taking a Chance on Love Judy Kaye 1995
54 Taking a Chance on Love Ralph Sutton, Bernd Lhotzky 1998
55 Taking a Chance on Love Banu Gibson December 1999
56 Taking a Chance on Love Renee Olstead September 30, 2002
57 Taking a Chance on Love Carol Welsman February 11, 2003
58 Takin' a Chance on Love Jerry Jeff Walker May 27, 2003
59 Taking a Chance on Love Anne Ducros 2003
60 Taking a Chance on Love Dave Glasser with Tardo Hammer, Lee Hudson, Tony Jefferson February 3, 2004
61 Taking a Chance on Love Jane Monheit September 7, 2004
62 Taking a Chance on Love Rod Stewart October 18, 2005
63 Taking a Chance on Love Laura Welland October 18, 2005
64 Taking a Chance on Love Jeff Harnar 2005
65 Taking a Chance on Love Sara Lazarus With Birély Lagrène Gipsy Project November 14, 2006
66 Taking a Chance on Love Jesse Palter 2006
67 Taking a Chance on Love Nancy Wilson featuring James Moody 2006
68 Taking a Chance on Love Emily Saxe 2006
69 Taking a Chance on Love Colleen Pratt with The Empire Jazz Orchestra 2007
70 Taking a Chance on Love Diane Schuur February 26, 2008
71 Taking a Chance on Love Nathan Hefner 2008

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