The Original Amateur Hour / Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
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There's No Business Like Show Business (from the 1946 Broadway Musical Annie Get Your Gun), music by Irving Berlin Original
Air Dates: 1948 - 1949 (Dumont), 1949 - 1955 (NBC), 1955 - 1957 (ABC), 1957 - 1958 (NBC), 1959 (CBS), 1960 - 1970 (ABC) |
| MEN'S CHORUS: The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props The audience that lifts you when you're down WOMEN'S CHORUS: The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops The sheriff who escorts you out of town MEN'S CHORUS: The opening when your heart beats like a drum WOMEN'S CHORUS: The closing when the customers won't come ALL: There's no business like show business Like no business I know MEN'S CHORUS: Everything about it is appealing WOMEN'S CHORUS: Everything the traffic will allow MEN'S CHORUS: No where could you have that happy feeling ALL: When you aren't stealing that extra bow There's no people like show people They smile when they are low MEN'S CHORUS: Yesterday they told you you would not go far WOMEN'S CHORUS: That night you opened and there you are MEN'S CHORUS: Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star ALL: Let's go on with the show MEN'S CHORUS: The cowboys, the wrestlers, the tumblers, the clowns The roustabouts that move the show at dawn WOMEN'S CHORUS: The music, the spotlights, the people, the towns Your baggage with the labels pasted on MEN'S CHORUS: The sawdust and the horses and the smell WOMEN'S CHORUS: The towel you've taken from the last hotel ALL: There's no business like show business If you tell me it's so Traveling through the country is so thrilling Standing out in front on opening nights Smiling as you watch the benches filling And see your billing up there in lights There's no people like show people They smile when they are low Even with a turkey that you know will fold You may be stranded out in the cold Still you wouldn't trade it for a sack o' gold Let's go on with the show Let's go on with the show! The show! The show! |
This song was used as one of the openings for the Dumont TV series. The show originated on radio with the title: Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour. It premered on radio in 1934 and was eventually one NBC, CBS & ABC, which probably makes it the most travelled show on radio and TV.
Dick Reid and Ted Mack
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