Annie Get Your Gun (original Broadway cast recording)

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Annie Get Your Gun
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Cast recording by
Ethel Merman with Ray Middleton and members of the original cast, chorus and orchestra, under direction of Jay Blackton
Released1946 (1946)
Genre Show tunes
Label Decca
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard positive [1]
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Annie Get Your Gun, credited to Ethel Merman with Ray Middleton and members of the original cast, chorus and orchestra, under direction of Jay Blackton, is a 1946 album containing the original studio cast recording of that year's Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun .

Contents

Recording

The album's recording started 10 days after the musical was premiered on Broadway in May 1946. [2]

Betty Ann Nyman and Kenny Bowers didn't participate in the recording, so "Who Do You Love, I Hope?", the duet they sang in the Broadway production, was recorded for this album by Robert Lenn and Kathleen Carnes. [2]

Release

The album was originally issued as a set of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. A-468). [3] It contained 12 songs across 12 sides. [2]

In 1949, the album was made available on LP (cat. no. DL 8001). [4]

In 2000, a new 24-bit remastering of this album was released on CD by Decca Records. [2]

Reception

The album reached number two on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart. [5]

In his retrospective review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann calls the album "exactly what a cast album should be, an accurate representation of the music of a show." He also adds that "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." [2]

Track listing

Album of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (Decca A-468) [3]

All tracks are written by Irving Berlin.

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

Charts

Chart (1946)Peak
position
US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums [5] 2

References

  1. ↑ "Album reviews". Billboard . 3 August 1946.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William Ruhlmann. "Annie Get Your Gun [Original Cast Album] - Ethel Merman". AllMusic . Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "Ethel Merman With Ray Middleton – Annie Get Your Gun – 6 x Shellac (10", 78 RPM, Album), 1946". 1946 – via Discogs.
  4. ↑ "Ethel Merman With Ray Middleton – Annie Get Your Gun". 1946 – via Discogs.
  5. 1 2 "Billboard". 31 August 1946.
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