Artist: Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, Marty May & William O'Neal
Author: Irving Berlin
Label: Decca
Year: 1946
With the Jay Blackton Orch. Showstopper from Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, based on the life story of Ohio sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler. Ethel was Annie, Ray was Frank, while William O'Neal was Buffalo Bill. Generated over a thousand performances, while this song was almost left out: Berlin had the impression producer Richard Rodgers didn't like it in the first place.
Covers:
Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern & Keenan Wynn [in film Annie Get Your Gun]
Marilyn Monroe [in film There's No Business Like Show Business]
Bernadette Peters [and the rest of the cast in Broadway revival Annie Get Your Gun]
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