Anything You Can Do
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"Anything You Can Do" is a song written by Irving Berlin used in the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun and is an anthem for feminism.[citation needed] This song is summed up by two singers attempting to out-do each other with increasingly complex things, its most notable lines being "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you."
The song was first performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.
Among the singer pairs especially known for their renditions of this song include:
[edit] Trivia
- The song was used as a long-running commercial series for Gatorade.
- The song was also used during The Goodies' episode "Kitten Kong"
- It is also the title of a first season episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives, which was nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Comedy Series, and a 1963 novel by Randall Garrett.
- Is currently 03/08/07 being used on a GAP commercial in the US. It has Claire Danes and Patrick Wilson dancing across an empty stage to promote GAP's Boyfriend Trouser.
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