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Songs like this one are the reason why Johnny Mathis became known as a ballad singer and the era's reigning king of make-out music. Mathis shows all the symptoms of being in love in the swooning romantic tune, written by Robert Allen and Al Stillman. He sings: Chances are 'cause I wear a silly grin The moment you come into view Chances are you think that I'm in love with you

This was Mathis' first #1 hit single and was include on his compilation Johnny's Greatest Hits, which is regarded as the original Greatest Hits album. Mathis was just two years into his recording career at the time, but Columbia Records was pressuring him for a new release, so his producer Mitch Miller came up with the idea for a hits package. "That was Mitch Miller's idea," Mathis explained in a 2018 Songfacts interview. "That was the first time I had a chance to go out of the country and go to Great Britain. They wanted me to go in the studio and make some more recordings. I had had some success with 'It's Not for Me to Say,' and I wasn't able to record anything new, so he threw the first four recordings that I did - both sides on them - and called them Johnny's Greatest Hits. That was a little flamboyant, because it was not the greatest hits, yet. But that was a great beginning for a lot of people. Even Mozart has a Greatest Hits now. Good idea from Mitch Miller."

The album spent a whopping 490 weeks on the Billboard chart and held the record for the longest run until it was surpassed by Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon at 491 weeks in 1983. (Dark Side eventually notched more than 880 weeks total.)

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Chances Are - Single Version.
A♯Key
MajorMode
1/4Time Signature
78BPM

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Columbia/Legacy
Originally Released 1956-1963, 1965, 1968, 1969, (P) 1982 Jon Mat Records, Inc. and Arista Records, Inc., 1973, 1975-1979, 1982, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004 Jon Mat Records, Inc./Originally Released 1959 Jon Mat Records, Inc., (P) 1979, 1982, 1993 Jon Mat Records, Inc./Originally Released 1960, 1964 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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