Original Broadway Cast - Annie Get Your Gun [Original Broadway Cast]

Title: Annie Get Your Gun [Original Broadway Cast] Artist: Original Broadway Cast Release Date: 7/8/1946 Label: MCA Records Duration: 36:20 Album Type(s): soundtrack, cast recording UPCs: 008811004729, 008811004743 Genre: Soundtrack Styles: Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Musicals, Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Campy, Energetic, Sentimental, Brassy, Dramatic, Lively, Innocent, Theatrical, Fun, Gleeful, Playful, Carefree, Humorous, Nostalgic, Rousing, Cheerful, Confident Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly :: Ethel Merman
2. Moonshine Lullaby :: Leon Bibb, Garth, Ethel Merman, Turner
3. You Can't Get a Man with a Gun :: Ethel Merman
4. I'm an Indian, Too :: Ethel Merman, Chorus
5. They Say It's Wonderful :: Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton
6. Anything You Can Do :: Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton
7. I Got Lost in His Arms :: Ethel Merman, Chorus
8. I Got the Sun in the Morning :: Ethel Merman, Chorus
9. The Girl That I Marry :: Ray Middleton
10. My Defenses Are Down :: Male Chorus, Ray Middleton
11. Who Do You Love, I Hope? :: Kathleen Carnes, Robert Lenn
12. There's No Business Like Show Business :: Chorus

Year Type Label Catalog # ------ CD MCA Records 10047 ------ CD MCA Records MCAD-10047

Annie Get Your Gun [Original Broadway Cast Bonus Tracks] Annie Get Your Gun [Original Soundtrack] [Bonus Tracks]

Though Irving Berlin came from the old school of Broadway songwriters, he was also highly adaptable. He approached his assignment as substitute for Jerome Kern (who had died suddenly) on Dorothy and Herbert Fields' musical about Annie Oakley in the spirit of integrated musicals that producers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had established with Oklahoma! only three years before. Berlin's songs for Annie Get Your Gun were all about character and plot, from the bawdy "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" in which Annie affirms the value of a common-sense barnyard education, to the witty "Anything You Can Do," which illuminates her final confrontation and reconciliation with love interest Frank Butler. Ordinarily, that should have meant that the songs were less easy to extract for the hit parade, but in fact Berlin's score produced more chart hits through cover versions than any Broadway score before or since.

Star Ethel Merman and her co-star Ray Middleton were Broadway veterans of the pre-microphone era, experts at projecting their voices from the footlights to the rear balcony, and their stage styles carried over to the cast recording. Merman, of course, possessed a clarion voice that was never better represented than in songs like "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" and "I Got the Sun in the Morning," while Middleton's sonorous baritone informed "The Girl That I Marry" and "My Defenses Are Down." But even though Berlin wrote simply and directly, the singers hit his meanings as surely as they did his notes. The result was exactly what a cast album should be, an accurate representation of the music of a show. And since this show was a landmark in Broadway history, that made the cast album an important contribution to musical history as well as an aural delight. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Ethel Merman Performer, Vocals Garth Performer Irving Berlin Lyricist Jay Blackton Conductor, Director Kathleen Carnes Performer, Vocals Michael Berniker Reissue Supervisor Michael Brooks Digital Mastering, ? Ray Middleton Vocals Robert Lenn Vocals, Performer Turner Performer