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"They Say It's Wonderful" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1946), where it was introduced by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.^[1] A film version in 1950 again featured the song when it was performed by Howard Keel and Betty Hutton.

Recordings

Ethel Merman recorded it for the original Decca Records cast album of Annie Get Your Gun (1946).^[2] In 1979, she recorded a "camp" version for The Ethel Merman Disco Album, but it was not released on the original vinyl record. It was issued as a bonus track on the CD reissue in 2002.^[3]
Andy Russell – single (1946; Billboard No. 10)^[4]
Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra – single (1946; Billboard No. 27)^[2]
Bing Crosby recorded the song on January 22, 1946^[5] - single (1946; Billboard No. 12)
Frank Sinatra – single (1946; "Billboard" No. 11)
Betty Hutton & Howard Keel – Annie Get Your Gun film and soundtrack (1950)
Modern Jazz Quartet – The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957)^[6]
Dave Brubeck – Plays and Plays and... (1957)^[7]
Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)^[8]
Johnny Mathis – Heavenly (1959)^[9]
Doris Day – Show Time (1960)^[10]
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)^[11]
Jimmy Scott – Falling in Love Is Wonderful (1963)^[12]
Hampton Hawes – Blues for Bud (1968)^[13]
Suzi Quatro & Eric Flynn – Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast (1986)^[14]
Tony Bennett – Bennett/Berlin (1987)^[15]
Stacey Kent – Love Is...The Tender Trap (1998)^[16]
Bernadette Peters – Annie Get Your Gun Broadway revival cast recording (1999)
Eliane Elias – Everything I Love (2000)^[17]
Michael Poss recorded the song, combined with "I Need to Be in Love", for his album Silver Screen Serenades (2000)
Judy Garland & Howard Keel recorded the song when Garland was originally slated to star in the film. It was released on the Annie Get Your Gun film soundtrack reissue CD (2000).
Sathima Bea Benjamin – Musical Echoes (2002)
Beegie Adair – The Great American Songbook Collection (2002)^[18]
Kirsten Dunst – Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Susan Lucci – ABC Presents: Love Affair (2008)
Seth MacFarlane – Once in a While (2019)^[19]

Popular culture

More recently it was performed in an episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel by Darius de Haas.^[20]

References

^ Mordden, Ethan (27 August 1999). Beautiful Mornin' : The Broadway Musical in the 1940s: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-19-535176-7.
^ ^a ^b Gilliland, John (c. 1975). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #13". UNT Digital Library.
^ The Ethel Merman Disco Album, Track 8 - "They Say It's Wonderful". Original 1979 recording reissued on CD in 2002 by Fynsworth Alley, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1991). Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music. Record Research, Inc. p. 375. ISBN 0898200830.
^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
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^ "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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^ "All The Songs In 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 3". Bustle. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

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[1] Mordden, Ethan (27 August 1999). Beautiful Mornin' : The Broadway Musical in the 1940s: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-19-535176-7.

[pc13-2] Gilliland, John (c. 1975). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #13". UNT Digital Library.

[3] The Ethel Merman Disco Album, Track 8 - "They Say It's Wonderful". Original 1979 recording reissued on CD in 2002 by Fynsworth Alley, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

[4] Whitburn, Joel (1991). Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music. Record Research, Inc. p. 375. ISBN 0898200830.

[5] "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[6] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 16, 2024.

[7] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 17, 2024.

[8] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[9] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[10] "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved April 19, 2024.

[11] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 19, 2024.

[12] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

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[14] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 19, 2024.

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[16] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[17] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[18] "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved April 17, 2024.

[19] "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 15, 2024.

[20] "All The Songs In 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 3". Bustle. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

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 ==Recordings==
 *[[Ethel Merman]] recorded it for the original [[Decca Records]] cast album of ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'' (1946).<ref name=pc13/> In 1979, she recorded a "camp" version for ''[[The Ethel Merman Disco Album]]'', but it was not released on the original vinyl record. It was issued as a bonus track on the CD reissue in 2002.<ref>''The Ethel Merman Disco Album'', Track 8 - "They Say It's Wonderful". Original 1979 recording reissued on CD in 2002 by Fynsworth Alley, LLC and Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.</ref>
-*[[Andy Russell (singer)|Andy Russell]] - single (1946; ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' No. 10)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music|date=1991|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|isbn=0898200830|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/375 375]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/375}}</ref>
+*[[Andy Russell (singer)|Andy Russell]] – single (1946; ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' No. 10)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music|date=1991|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|isbn=0898200830|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/375 375]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/375}}</ref>
-*[[Perry Como]] with [[Russ Case]] and His Orchestra - single (1946; ''Billboard'' No. 27)<ref name=pc13>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633218/m1/|title=Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #13|first=John|last=Gilliland|year=c. 1975 |website=UNT Digital Library}}</ref>
+*[[Perry Como]] with [[Russ Case]] and His Orchestra – single (1946; ''Billboard'' No. 27)<ref name=pc13>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633218/m1/|title=Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #13|first=John|last=Gilliland|year=c. 1975 |website=UNT Digital Library}}</ref>
 *[[Bing Crosby]] recorded the song on January 22, 1946<ref>{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|access-date=September 21, 2016}}</ref> - single (1946; ''Billboard'' No. 12)
-*[[Frank Sinatra]] - single (1946; "Billboard" No. 11)
+*[[Frank Sinatra]] – single (1946; "Billboard" No. 11)
-*[[Betty Hutton]] & [[Howard Keel]] - ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (film)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'' film and soundtrack (1950)
+*[[Betty Hutton]] & [[Howard Keel]] – ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (film)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'' film and soundtrack (1950)
-*[[Modern Jazz Quartet]] - ''[[The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957 album)|The Modern Jazz Quartet]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-modern-jazz-quartet-mw0000311783|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 16, 2024}}</ref>
+*[[Modern Jazz Quartet]] – ''[[The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957 album)|The Modern Jazz Quartet]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-modern-jazz-quartet-mw0000311783|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 16, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Dave Brubeck]] - ''[[Plays and Plays and...]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/plays-and-plays-and-plays-mw0000615257|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 17, 2024}}</ref>
+*[[Dave Brubeck]] – ''[[Plays and Plays and...]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/plays-and-plays-and-plays-mw0000615257|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 17, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Sarah Vaughan]] - ''[[Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows]]'' (1958)
+*[[Sarah Vaughan]] – ''[[Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows]]'' (1958)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sarah-vaughan-sings-broadway-great-songs-from-hit-shows-mw0000124954|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Johnny Mathis]] - ''[[Heavenly (Johnny Mathis album)|Heavenly]]'' (1959)
+*[[Johnny Mathis]] – ''[[Heavenly (Johnny Mathis album)|Heavenly]]'' (1959)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/heavenly-mw0000198520|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Doris Day]] - ''[[Show Time (Doris Day album)|Show Time]]'' (1960)
+*[[Doris Day]] – ''[[Show Time (Doris Day album)|Show Time]]'' (1960)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2108520-Doris-Day-Show-Time|website=discogs.com|accessdate=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[John Coltrane]] & [[Johnny Hartman]] - ''[[John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman]]'' (1963)
+*[[John Coltrane]] & [[Johnny Hartman]] - ''[[John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman]]'' (1963)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/john-coltrane-and-johnny-hartman-mw0000263500|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Jimmy Scott]] - ''Falling in Love Is Wonderful'' (1963)
+*[[Jimmy Scott]] – ''Falling in Love Is Wonderful'' (1963)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/falling-in-love-is-wonderful-mw0000542542|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Hampton Hawes]] - ''[[Blues For Bud (1968 album)|Blues for Bud]]'' (1968)
+*[[Hampton Hawes]] – ''[[Blues For Bud (1968 album)|Blues for Bud]]'' (1968)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/blues-for-bud-mw0000690961|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref>
+*[[Suzi Quatro]] & [[Eric Flynn]] – ''[[Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast]]'' (1986)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/annie-get-your-gun-original-london-cast-recording-mw0000049300|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Dionne Warwick]] - ''[[I'll Never Fall in Love Again (album)|I'll Never Fall in Love Again]]'' (1970)
+*[[Tony Bennett]] – ''[[Bennett/Berlin]]'' (1987)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bennett-berlin-mw0000651373|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Suzi Quatro]] & [[Eric Flynn]] - ''[[Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast]]'' (1986)
+*[[Stacey Kent]] – ''[[Love Is...The Tender Trap]]'' (1998)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/love-isthe-tender-trap-mw0000048054|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Tony Bennett]] - ''[[Bennett/Berlin]]'' (1987)
+*[[Bernadette Peters]] – ''Annie Get Your Gun'' Broadway revival cast recording (1999)
-*[[Stacey Kent]] - ''[[Love Is...The Tender Trap]]'' (1998)
+*[[Eliane Elias]] – ''[[Everything I Love (Eliane Elias album)|Everything I Love]]'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/everything-i-love-mw0000051681|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 18, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Bernadette Peters]] - ''Annie Get Your Gun'' Broadway revival cast recording (1999)
-*[[Eliane Elias]] - ''[[Everything I Love (Eliane Elias album)|Everything I Love]]'' (2000)
 *Michael Poss recorded the song, combined with "[[I Need to Be in Love]]", for his album ''Silver Screen Serenades'' (2000)
 *[[Judy Garland]] & [[Howard Keel]] recorded the song when Garland was originally slated to star in the film. It was released on the ''Annie Get Your Gun'' film soundtrack reissue CD (2000).
-*[[Sathima Bea Benjamin]] - ''Musical Echoes'' (2002)
+*[[Sathima Bea Benjamin]] – ''Musical Echoes'' (2002)
-*[[Beegie Adair]] - ''The Great American Songbook Collection'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/19943410-Beegie-Adair-The-Great-American-Songbook-Collection|website=discogs.com|accessdate=April 17, 2024}}</ref>
+*[[Beegie Adair]] – ''The Great American Songbook Collection'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/19943410-Beegie-Adair-The-Great-American-Songbook-Collection|website=discogs.com|accessdate=April 17, 2024}}</ref>
-*[[Kirsten Dunst]] - ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' (2007)
+*[[Kirsten Dunst]] – ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' (2007)
-*[[Susan Lucci]] - ''[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] Presents: Love Affair'' (2008)
+*[[Susan Lucci]] – ''[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] Presents: Love Affair'' (2008)
-*[[Seth MacFarlane]] - ''[[Once in a While (Seth MacFarlane album)|Once in a While]]'' (2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/once-in-a-while-mw0003249373|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 15, 2024}}</ref>
+*[[Seth MacFarlane]] – ''[[Once in a While (Seth MacFarlane album)|Once in a While]]'' (2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/once-in-a-while-mw0003249373|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 15, 2024}}</ref>
 ==Popular culture==

v t e Annie Get Your Gun
Characters	Annie Oakley Frank Butler Chief Sitting Bull Buffalo Bill Pawnee Bill
Adaptations	Annie Get Your Gun (film) Annie du Far-West (operetta)
Recordings	Annie Get Your Gun (1963) Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast (1986)
Music	"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" "The Girl That I Marry" "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" "There's No Business Like Show Business" "They Say It's Wonderful" "Moonshine Lullaby" "My Defenses Are Down" "I'm an Indian Too" "I Got Lost in His Arms" "Who Do You Love, I Hope?" "I Got the Sun in the Mornin'" "Anything You Can Do"

v t e Perry Como
Albums	Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music (1946) So Smooth (1955) We Get Letters (1957) Saturday Night with Mr. C (1958) When You Come to the End of the Day (1958) Como Swings (1959) Season's Greetings from Perry Como (1959) For the Young at Heart (1960) Sing to Me Mr. C (1961) By Request (1962) The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President (1962) The Songs I Love (1963) The Scene Changes (1965) Lightly Latin (1966) Perry Como in Italy (1966) The Perry Como Christmas Album (1968) Look to Your Heart (1968) Seattle (1969) Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas (1970) It's Impossible (1970) I Think of You (1971) And I Love You So (1973) Perry (1974) Just Out of Reach (1975) 40 Greatest Hits (1975) The Best of British (UK and Canada) (1977) Where You're Concerned (US) (1978) Perry Como (1980) Perry Como Live on Tour (1981) So It Goes / Goodbye for Now (1983) Today (1987) Perry Como's Christmas Concert (1994) On the Radio – The Perry Como Shows 1943 (2009) At the Supper Club (2010) At the Supper Club Part II (2011) At the Supper Club Part III (2011)
Songs	"'A' You're Adorable" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" "And I Love You So" "As Time Goes By" "Bali Ha'i" "Because" "Beyond Tomorrow" "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" "Blue Room" "A Bushel and a Peck" "Can't Help Falling in Love" "Caterina" "Catch a Falling Star" "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)" "Confessin'" "Days of Wine and Roses" "Deep in the Heart of Texas" "Delaware" "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)" "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" "Dream Along with Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)" "A Dreamer's Holiday" "El Cóndor Pasa" "Far Away Places" "Feelings" "Fly Me to the Moon" "For the Good Times" "Forever and Ever" "Forget Domani" "Give Me Your Hand" "Glendora" "The Gypsy in My Soul" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" "Hello, Young Lovers" "Here, There and Everywhere" "Home for the Holidays" "Hoop-Dee-Doo" "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" "A House Is Not a Home" "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "I May Never Pass This Way Again" "I Think I Love You" "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" "I'll Be Home for Christmas" "If (They Made Me a King)" "It's a Good Day" "It's Been a Long, Long Time" "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" "Juke Box Baby" "Kewpie Doll" "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)" "Long Ago (and Far Away)" "The Lord's Prayer" "Magic Moments" "Mandolins in the Moonlight" "Maria" "Moon River" "More" "No Other Love" "Papa Loves Mambo" "Please Mr. Sun" "Prisoner of Love" "Round and Round" "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" "Say You're Mine Again" "Seattle" "The Shadow of Your Smile" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" "The Songs I Love" "Stop! And Think It Over" "Surrender" "Till the End of Time" "They Say It's Wonderful" "Unchained Melody" "Wanted" "The Way You Look Tonight" "What'll I Do" "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" "Young at Heart"
Related	Perry Como discography Perry Como television and radio shows Beat the Band The Chesterfield Supper Club List of songs recorded by Perry Como Goodman Ace Mitchell Ayres Ray Charles Frank Gallop Nick Perito
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