<P> `` There 's No Business Like Show Business '' is an Irving Berlin song , written for the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun and orchestrated by Ted Royal . The song , a slightly tongue - in - cheek salute to the glamour and excitement of a life in show business , is sung in the musical by members of Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show in an attempt to persuade Annie Oakley to join the production . It is reprised three times in the musical . </P>
<P> `` There 's No Business Like Show Business '' is an Irving Berlin song , written for the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun and orchestrated by Ted Royal . The song , a slightly tongue - in - cheek salute to the glamour and excitement of a life in show business , is sung in the musical by members of Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show in an attempt to persuade Annie Oakley to join the production . It is reprised three times in the musical . </P>
who wrote the song there 's no business like show business
who wrote the song there 's no business like show business
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin