I've participated in maybe 10 different productions of Annie Get Your Gun, the Irving Berlin masterpiece and although some of them were "unfortunate" to have gone on stage at all, one of the joys of a pit orchestra job is, simply, the music. In this case, since much of the story is romantic "truth", Phoebe Annie Moses Butler "Oakley" is cast of pretty pure cloth. She is what she was although it is doubtful she sang.
Annie in 1919 or so
Today is her birthday. You should read up on her if you have a minute. Wiki has a good bio from which these pictures came. She was, as the saying goes, "all spit and sticks" in a time where kids were packed off to infirmaries and sold into virtual slavery to make ends meet.
There is no evidence that Annie had a lot of other talents besides some
obvious super ability with a gun and the ability to perform under pressure and in front of great crowds. She was something of a national figure and greatly admired by all accounts. No small deal. Not then, not now.
Anyway, no music from Annie Get Your Gun this morning. You've heard all the tunes anyway. How about this:
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