Chances Are (song)
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This article is about the Johnny Mathis song. For other songs with this title, see Chances Are (disambiguation).
| "Chances Are" | |
| Written by | Al Stillman, Robert Allen |
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| Music by | Robert Allen |
| Lyrics by | Al Stillman |
| Published | 1957 |
| Language | English |
| Form | Jazz |
| Original artist | Johnny Mathis |
| Recorded by | Johnny Mathis, Liza Minnelli |
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"Chances Are" is a popular song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was published in 1957. The song was one of a large number of compositions by the Stillman-Allen team that were chart hits in the 1950s. It was listed on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" survey for Johnny Mathis,[1] charting in 1957, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998. The song reached No. 4 on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores survey, along with its flip "The Twelfth of Never". Mathis re-recorded the song in 1996 as a duet with Liza Minnelli for her Grammy-nominated album Gently.
| Preceded by "Honeycomb" by Jimmie Rodgers |
Cash Box magazine best selling record chart #1 record (Johnny Mathis version) October 12, 1957–October 19, 1957 |
Succeeded by "Wake Up Little Susie" by The Everly Brothers |
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