Sea debido a la gran cantidad de cafés que me he tomado hoy, sea a causa del mal fario que según la tradición acompaña a tal día como hoy (martes y trece), o debido a cualquier otra razón que se les pueda ocurrir lo cierto es que hoy me siento musical. A última hora de la noche empezó a rondarme por la cabeza una melodía en particular, precisamente el tema cuyo título sirve como encabezado para este post.
Se trata de una canción escrita por Irving Berlin para la película Annie get your gun (George Sydney, 1950). Y digo yo, ¿quién se atreve a decir que no la ha cantado, o al menos tarareado, en alguna que otra ocasión?
Años después esa canción, junto con otras del propio Berlin, serían incluidas en una película que llevaba precisamente este mismo título: There is no business like show business (Walter Lang, 1954). No por nada este tema, símbolo de la cara más amable del mundo del espectáculo, pasaba por ser el principal del filme. La versión que figuraba en él, cantada por Ethel Merman, se haría famosa mundialmente, convirtiéndolo en un ejemplo paradigmático de la que pasaría por ser la visión lúdica y alegre de este mundillo, una visión, por desgracia, muy alejada de la auténtica naturaleza de aquel complejo fabril en el que se manufacturaban sueños.
A continuación les incluyo la letra por si les entran ganas de acompañar a Ethel Merman.
Años después esa canción, junto con otras del propio Berlin, serían incluidas en una película que llevaba precisamente este mismo título: There is no business like show business (Walter Lang, 1954). No por nada este tema, símbolo de la cara más amable del mundo del espectáculo, pasaba por ser el principal del filme. La versión que figuraba en él, cantada por Ethel Merman, se haría famosa mundialmente, convirtiéndolo en un ejemplo paradigmático de la que pasaría por ser la visión lúdica y alegre de este mundillo, una visión, por desgracia, muy alejada de la auténtica naturaleza de aquel complejo fabril en el que se manufacturaban sueños.
A continuación les incluyo la letra por si les entran ganas de acompañar a Ethel Merman.
There's no business like show business like no business
I know
Everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow
There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold, you may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold, let's go on with the show
The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk
Are secretly unhappy men because
The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk
Get paid for what they do but no applause.
They'd gladly bid their dreary jobs goodbye for anything theatrical and why?
There's no business like show business and I tell you it's so
Traveling through the country is so thrilling, standing out in front on opening nights
Smiling as you watch the theater filling, and there's your billing out there in lights
There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low
Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack, and when you lose it, there's no attack
Where could you get money that you don't give back? Let's go on with the show
(There's no business like show business like no business I know)
You get word before the show has started that your favorite uncle died at dawn
Top of that, your pa and ma have parted, you're broken-hearted, but you go on
(There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low)
Yesterday they told you you would not go far, that night you open and there you are
Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star, let's go on with the show!!
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow
There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold, you may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold, let's go on with the show
The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk
Are secretly unhappy men because
The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk
Get paid for what they do but no applause.
They'd gladly bid their dreary jobs goodbye for anything theatrical and why?
There's no business like show business and I tell you it's so
Traveling through the country is so thrilling, standing out in front on opening nights
Smiling as you watch the theater filling, and there's your billing out there in lights
There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low
Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack, and when you lose it, there's no attack
Where could you get money that you don't give back? Let's go on with the show
(There's no business like show business like no business I know)
You get word before the show has started that your favorite uncle died at dawn
Top of that, your pa and ma have parted, you're broken-hearted, but you go on
(There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low)
Yesterday they told you you would not go far, that night you open and there you are
Next day on your dressing room they've hung a star, let's go on with the show!!
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