Annie Get Your Gun (musical) Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do." Dorothy Fields had the idea for a musical about Annie Oakley, to star her friend, Ethel Merman. Producer Mike Todd turned the project down, so Fields approached a new producing team, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. After the success of their first musical collaboration, "Oklahoma!", Rodgers and Hammerstein had decided to become producers of both their own theatrical ventures and those by other authors. They agreed to produce the musical and asked Jerome Kern to compose
Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) and proceeds with the narrator courting the woman in the style of an auction chant. Deborah Evans Price, of "Billboard" magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that it demonstrates Montgomery's "ability to deliver tongue-twisting lyrics in rapid fire fashion." The music video was directed by Martin Kahan and features Montgomery at a livestock auction in the Garrard County Kentucky stockyards. Many of the extras in the music video are locals of Garrard County where Montgomery himself was raised. "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" debuted at number 71 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week