“There’s No Business Like Show Business” — Ethel Merman

No Words, No Song
4 min readJun 20, 2020
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Whenever I need to steel myself for a challenging task ahead, I always think of “There’s No Business Like Show Business”.

It became Ethel Merman’s signature song, and there’s no-one who could give it the breezy, blousy treatment quite like her. Her performance of the song, possibly even more than the song itself, makes it a great song to listen to when you’re feeling…

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.