I Can Do Without You out that Hickok was being sarcastic and that he trusts her "about as much as I do a blind rattlesnake with a new button on its tail." The song is a comical male-female quarrel, with Calamity and Hickok exchanging comic insults, somewhat reminiscent of "Anything You Can Do" from "Annie Get Your Gun". I Can Do Without You "I Can Do Without You" is a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was included in the 1953 film, "Calamity Jane". It was performed by Doris Day and Howard Keel. Doris Day played
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