You Can't Get a Man with a Gun
Song from the musical Annie Get Your Gun From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, written by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ethel Merman.[1]
| "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Ethel Merman | |
| from the album Annie Get Your Gun (musical) | |
| Released | 1946 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:13 |
| Songwriter(s) | Irving Berlin |
In the song, Annie Oakley sings about how a girl with talent as a sharpshooter nevertheless finds that her abilities do not help her attract men. She introduces herself with: "I'm quick on the trigger/with targets not much bigger/than a pinpoint I'm number one." The song is humorous in that she imagines different scenarios in which shooting a man will not make him fall in love with you, e.g. "A man may be hot/but he's not/when he's shot/oh, you can't get a man with a gun!" and "But you can't shoot a lover,/and use him for a cover/oh, you can't get a man with a gun!"
- Doris Day - for her album Annie Get Your Gun (1963)[2]
- Judy Garland - recorded for the film soundtrack but not used as Garland was subsequently dropped from the film.[3]
- Eydie Gormé - for her album Gormé Sings Showstoppers (1959).[4]
- Betty Hutton - included in the album Annie Get Your Gun (Original Soundtrack) (1950).[5]
- Ethel Merman - included in Annie Get Your Gun [Original Cast Album] (1946).[6]
- Mary Martin - released as part of album of a 1957 TV recording with John Raitt. [7]
- Björk - included in Gling-Gló (1990).
- Bernadette Peters - included in Annie Get Your Gun [1999 Broadway Revival Cast] (1999).[8]
- Suzi Quatro – starred as Annie Oakley in the 1986 West End (London) production of Annie Get Your Gun. She sings the song in the album Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast (1986),[9] and the associated single "I Got Lost in His Arms" (1986).[10]
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