There's No Business Like Show Business
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This page is about the song. For the film, see There's No Business Like Show Business (film), a 1954 movie musical
"There's No Business Like Show Business" is an Irving Berlin song, written for Annie Get Your Gun and orchestrated by Ted Royal. The song, a salute to the glamour and excitement of a life in show business, is sung in the musical by members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in an attempt to persuade Annie Oakley to join the Wild West Show. It is reprised 3 times in the musical.
The song is also featured in the 1954 movie of the same name, where it's notably sung by Ethel Merman as the main musical number. The movie, directed by Walter Lang, is essentially a catalogue of various Berlin's pieces, in the same way that Singin' in the Rain — which starred Donald O'Connor as well — was a collection of Arthur Freed songs. There was also a disco version of the song made during the 1970s, with Merman reprising her singing role (see The Ethel Merman Disco Album). A portion of the song is used to open the "Tinsel Talk" segment of the Stephanie Miller Show.
[edit] In popular culture
- The Ethel Merman recording featured in the film "All That Jazz" (1979)
- From 1976 to 2007 the rock band Genesis played the Ethel Merman recording at the end of gigs - it can be heard at the end of their 1977 live album Seconds Out.
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