Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. During the song, they argue playfully about who can, for example, sing softer, sing higher, sing sweeter, and hold a note for longer, and boast of their abilities and accomplishments, such as opening safes and living on bread and cheese, although Annie always seems to counter Frank's argument. Neither can "bake a pie," though. Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) "Anything You Can Do" is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun". The song is a duet, with one male singer and one female singer
It's All I Can Do the Top 20 standard of its predecessor, it reached number 41 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. A third and final single from "Candy-O", "Double Life", failed to chart. "It's All I Can Do" has generally received positive reception from critics. Prato said that It's All I Can Do' ... deserved to be a hit," while Champ said the track (as well as its predecessor, "Let's Go,") "give ample evidence of the band's range." William Ruhlmann, author of "The All-Music Guide to Rock", said "'It's All I Can Do' hit as well [as 'Let's Go']", and in the "Billboard" review of