There's No Business Like Show Business
There's No Business Like Show Business is a song by Irving Berlin that he composed and wrote for the musical Annie Get Your Gun .
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The song conjures up the glamor and excitement of a life in show business. In the musical, it is sung by members of the Buffalo Bill Wildwest Show to convince the main character, Annie Oakley, to join the show. It is repeated three times in the musical.
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The song is also used in the film of the same name from 1954 (German: Rhythmus im Blut ), where it is sung by Ethel Merman as the leading actress. The film, made by Walter Lang, is a catalog of Berlin's songs.
Sonny Rollins released a jazz version of the song on his Worktime album. Shirley Bassey , Marilyn Monroe , Gitte Hænning , Liza Minnelli , Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick have sung cover versions. A disco version was also added in the 1970s. Part of the song was used on the Stephanie Miller Show . The band Negativland used parts of the original Merman recording on their album Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 . The Merman title was also used in the 1979 film All That Jazz .
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- ^ There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) . www.imdb.com. Retrieved April 3, 2009.