8. Annie Get Your Gun

This week, we cover Annie Get Your Gun, composer and lyricist Irving Berlin's 1946 response to the new Rodgers and Hammerstein formula, with book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields. Unlike R+H's serious musical plays, Annie Get Your Gun is a comedy, and quite a funny one at that! We also go over Irving Berlin's biography and play some of his older songs, as he is probably the greatest songwriter in American history.

We talk about how expressive Betty Hutton is in the Annie Get Your Gun movie, so if you'd like to see it in video and not just hear the audio, here is her rendition of You Can't Get a Man with a Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGB7yTZEZE4