There’s No Business Like Show Business
Irving Berlin’s recording of “There’s No Business Like Show Business” came out in 1946, the earliest year on file; Marty May, Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, William O'Neal, Jay Blackton’s came out the same year. Irving Berlin wrote it. Also recorded by Frank Sinatra (released 1947), Ethel Merman (released 1979) and Marilyn Monroe and Ethel Merman (released 1988), among 162 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
Everybody knows the Merman belt, but Berlin himself put out the original in 1946, with Sinatra close behind a year later. Hear the man sing his own showstopper before the stars took it over.
Credited writer: Irving Berlin.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1946, the same year as Marty May, Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, William O'Neal, Jay Blackton.
- Frank Sinatra1947
- Connee Boswell1958
- Doris Day & Robert Goulet1964
- Mary Hopkin1969
- Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, Keenan Wynn, Betty Hutton1973
- Ethel Merman1979
- Marilyn Monroe and Ethel Merman1988
- Susannah McCorkle1997
- Company2009
162 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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