Anything You Can Do

Album: Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
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  • Irving Berlin wrote this for the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun; as might be suspected it is a duet, and was introduced by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. In reality, the real Annie Oakley could do anything better than her future husband Frank Butler, at least as far as sharp shooting was concerned, which was what first attracted him to her. >>>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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