Annie Get Your Gun - Mary Martin & John Raitt

 

Doin' What Comes Natur'lly

Annie Get Your Gun

Mary Martin & John Raitt
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields
Production directed by Vincent J. Donehue
Production designed by George Jenkins
Costumes designed by Dorothy Jenkins
Musical Direction by Louis Adrian
Produced by Edwin Lester in association with Richard Halliday
Capitol Records High Fidelity Recording W913
1957

From the back cover: Introduced on Broadway in 1946 and later appearing on the screen, Annie Get Your Gun reached a vast new audience in 1957, in the production that is showcased here. It played to packed houses in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and was selected by NBC for a lavish television spectacular. There are two reasons for the enthusiastic response greeting this new version of the show, and their names are Mary Martin and John Raitt. These stars are the principals in the familiar story of Annie Oakley, a buckskin-clad girl wandering out of the backwoods with a squirrel rifle over her shoulder, ready and able to "shoot it out" with the world. Once discovered as the dead-eye delight that she was, she toured the world, hitting the mark wherever she went. Only with handsome young Frank Butler, a professional marksman of note, did she enjoy less than total victory. She won the match, but lost her heart. They married, toured together, and eventually he gave up his career to manage hers.

The roles of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler are here recreated in song by Mary Martin and John Raitt, two of American's outstanding theater personalities. Miss Martin's recent triumphs include South Pacific on the stage, and her remarkable stage and TV performance of Peter Pan. Mr. Raitt hit the top as Bill Bigelow in the Broadway production of Carousel followed by a long run in The Pajama Game, a role that he also transferred to the screen.

Overture
I'm A Bad, Bad Man
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
The Girl That I Marry
You Can't Get A Man With A Gun
Moonshine Lullaby
They Say It's Wonderful
My Defenses Are Down
I'm An Indian Too
I Got Lost In His Arms
I Got The Sun In The Morning
Anything You Can Do
There's No Business
Like Show Business