"Chances Are" is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman

Al Stillman

Al Stillman was an American lyricist.-Biography:Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman, but changed it to that of a well-known New York banking family. He was Jewish. He attended New York University. After graduation, he contributed to Franklin P...

. It was published in 1957

1957 in music

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. 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

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's "Most Played by Jockeys" survey for Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

,http://books.google.com/books?id=ICkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=chances+are+Most+Played+By+Jockeys&source=bl&ots=c0m4X7YGbI&sig=H-nhjHL0Rs9xV5BWq-Tel4nOdVk&hl=en&ei=99zESqjtJ8iwlAfazp2SAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=chances%20are%20Most%20Played%20By%20Jockeys&f=false charting in 1957, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame Award

Grammy Hall of Fame Award

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 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

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....

 for her Grammy-nominated album Gently.