Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) 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 attempting to outdo each other in increasingly complex tasks. In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Its most memorable lines are, "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you." The song was first performed in "Annie Get Your Gun" by
You Can Do Magic (song) the top 200 albums, the first time an album by America as a duo (rather than the original trio) had appeared in that chart's upper half. International chart placings for "You Can Do Magic" include No. 30 in Australia, No. 37 in Canada, No. 20 in Ireland, No. 27 in Italy, No. 12 in New Zealand and No. 59 in the UK. The success of "You Can Do Magic" led to America recording their 1983 album "Your Move" with Russ Ballard as producer. Drew Seeley covered "You Can Do Magic" for the 2009 Walt Disney Records soundtrack, "Wizards of Waverly