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Who Do You Love I Hope; There's No Business Like Show Business: Museum Object and Cultural History

Who Do You Love I Hope; There's No Business Like Show Business: recording date: 1946. recording artist: Merman, Ethel. manufacturer: Decca.

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The object in the museum catalogue

side 1: Robert Lenn and Kathleen Carnes. Who Do You Love I Hope; side 2: Ethel Merman. There's No Business Like Show Business (Decca 23589), from the album, Annie Get Your Gun (Decca 468). 78 rpm,

This album is from the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, with book by Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances.

Materials, dates and provenance

  • recording date: 1946
  • recording artist: Merman, Ethel
  • manufacturer: Decca
  • Object Name: sound recording
  • Physical Description: paper (overall material)
  • Physical Description: ink (overall material)
  • Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
  • Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
  • place made: United States: New York, New York
  • general subject association: Musical Theater
  • ID Number: 1981.0656.481
  • accession number: 1981.0656
  • maker number: 23589
  • maker number: 468
  • catalog number: 1981.0656.481
  • Credit Line: Gift of Eula W. Wake in Memory of Harry Wake
  • Data Source: National Museum of American History

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