Doin' What Comes Natur'lly Doin' What Comes Natur'lly "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" is a song from the 1946 musical "Annie Get Your Gun", written by Irving Berlin. The song was introduced by Ethel Merman in the original production of the musical. Other singers to have recorded the song include Betty Hutton, Judy Garland, Bernadette Peters, Suzi Quatro, The DeMarco Sisters, and Dinah Shore. In the song Annie Oakley, her brother (Little Jake), sisters (Minnie, Jessie, and Nellie), and the owner of the Wilson Hotel (Foster Wilson) sing jokingly about how the Oakley family and their community live happy lives despite their lack of education
Annie Oakley was friends with Thomas Edison, and Edison built the world's largest electrical power plant at the time for the "Wild West Show". Buffalo Bill and 15 of his show Indians appeared in two Kinetoscopes filmed September 24, 1894. In 1894, Oakley and Butler performed in Edison's Kinetoscope film "The "Little Sure Shot of the Wild West," an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls, etc." which was filmed November 1, 1894 in Edison's Black Maria studio by William Heise. It was the eleventh film made after commercial showings began on April 14, 1894. Biographers, such as Shirl Kasper, repeat Oakley's