When the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun” was being produced, the production staff, including director Joshua Logan, decided that the leading man and leading lady needed one more duet. At a meeting they asked composer Irving Berlin to write it.
When the meeting broke up, Mr. Logan went right home, and when he walked in the front door of his apartment the phone was ringing. It was Irving Berlin, who proceeded to sing the just-written "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better."
Berlin had created the whole song, words and music, in the ten to fifteen minutes it took him to ride home in a cab.
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