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Would You Take Another Chance on Me?

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Would You Take Another Chance on Me?
Studio album by
Jerry Lee Lewis
Released1971
RecordedNashville, Tennessee
GenreCountry
Length31:26
LabelMercury
ProducerJerry Kennedy
Jerry Lee Lewis chronology
Touching Home
(1971) 		Would You Take Another Chance on Me?
(1971) 		The Killer Rocks On
(1972)

Would You Take Another Chance on Me? is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis that was released on Mercury Records in 1971.

Recording

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Lewis's fourth Mercury album of 1971 includes his radical arrangement of the Kris Kristofferson classic "Me and Bobby McGee". Although producer Jerry Kennedy avoided releasing singles in the country market that featured Jerry Lee's trademark "boogie woogie" piano style, by late 1971 Lewis had amassed so many country hits that Kennedy began to alter his approach. As Colin Escott writes in the liner notes to the 2006 retrospective A Half Century of Hits, "Since the country breakthrough in 1968, Lewis's records had been spare, unornamented and unremittingly slow-paced. After three years Kennedy decided to break out of the artistic straitjacket. When Lewis arrived at Mercury's studio in August 1971 he was greeted by a 10-piece string section rehearsing a Kris Kristofferson song. Kennedy wanted to give the big-budget treatment to 'Me and Bobby McGee'. The song had been a country hit for Roger Miller and a pop hit for Janis Joplin, and so if Lewis was to do it, he would have to rethink it. And that's what he did. In losing Kristofferson's whimsicality, he created a new song." In addition to Kristofferson, Merle Haggard had been another writer Lewis kept returning to during his impressive run, this time recording the honky-tonk "drinkin' song" "Swinging Doors".

Would You Take Another Chance on Me? does betray a "countrypolitan" influence, containing more elaborate productions that were becoming more common on country radio largely due to the influence of Billy Sherrill, who was enjoying tremendous success at Epic Records producing Lewis's old Sun label-mate Charlie Rich and Tammy Wynette by employing strings and layered background vocalists to create a Phil Spector-like "wall of sound". As Lewis's behaviour became more erratic as the decade wore on, Kennedy would do his best to keep his artist relevant in the country charts by turning more towards this sweetened sound.

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Would You Take Another Chance on Me"
  • Jerry Foster
  • Bill Rice
2:53
2."Another Hand Shakin' Goodbye"
2:37
3."Swinging Doors"Merle Haggard2:51
4."Thirteen at the Table"Buddy Emmons3:38
5."Big Blon' Baby"
  • Kenny Jacobson
  • Rhoda Roberts
2:05
6."Lonesome Fiddle Man"
  • Frazier
  • Shafer
2:33
7."Me and Bobby McGee"
3:12
8."For the Good Times"Kristofferson3:45
9."Things That Matter Most to Me"
  • Thomas LaVerne
  • Bill Taylor
  • Don Pittman
3:13
10."The Hurtin' Part"
  • LaVerne
  • Taylor
2:27
11."The Goodbye of the Year"
2:12
Total length:31:26

Personnel

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  • Jerry Lee Lewis - vocals, piano
  • Chip Young, Harold Bradley, Jerry Kennedy, Ray Edenton - guitar
  • Pete Drake - steel guitar
  • Kenny Lovelace - fiddle
  • Bob Moore - bass
  • Bill Strom - organ
  • Buddy Harman - drums
  • The Nashville Edition - vocal accompaniment; Cam Mullins - arrangements on "Would You Take Another Chance on Me", "Me and Bobby McGee" and "For the Good Times"
  • The Nashville Sounds - vocal accompaniment

Reception

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AllMusic states that the collection "is slowed by layers of backing vocals, gauzy accouterments that turn this into an album approximating romance..."

Charts

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Chart Song Peak Ref
Hot Country Songs Me and Bobby McGee 1 [1]
Billboard Hot 100 44 [2]
Billboard Top 40 39 [3]
Hot Country Songs Would You Take Another Chance on Me 1 [4]
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2
Top Country Albums — 3 [5]
Billboard 200 — 115 [6]

References

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  1. ^ "Hot Country Singles" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 84, no. 2. January 8, 1972. p. 33. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ "Billboard Hot 100" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 84, no. 1. January 1, 1972. p. 19. ISSN 0006-2510.
  3. ^ "Billboard Top 40" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 83, no. 52. January 1, 1972. p. 31. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006 (2nd ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 201.
  5. ^ "Hot Country LP's" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 84, no. 2. January 8, 1972. p. 34. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. ^ "Hot Country LP's" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 84, no. 2. January 8, 1972. p. 45. ISSN 0006-2510.
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