well, That's Show Biz, 05-18-2024 4-7 Do Dah Day

Do Dah Day

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

5-18-2025

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, and each week I bring you music from Broadway, Movies, and Entertainers along with some anecdotes, information, and commentary all based on a theme.

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• Today’s show was pre-recorded.

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• Today is National Do Dah Day. What is that you ask? It is a “Salute to Silliness”.

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• <Play “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”>

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• You just heard “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from Mary Poppins, our first salvo in our “Salute to Silliness” for Do Dah Day. Today we will be playing songs with nonsense or silly lyrics.

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• We are going to open our first set with the song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Walt Disney’s Cinderella. We will follow that with Danny Kaye singing the tale of “The Maladjusted Jester” from The Court Jester. Then we will hear “Octopus Song” from the Broadway musical Fanny. And we will close this set with “We Go Together” from Grease.  Here’s “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Disney’s Cinderella.

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• Today is Do Dah Day, a “Salute to Silliness”, and you just heard “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Disney’s Cinderella, “The Maladjusted Jester” from The Court Jester, “Octopus Song” from Fanny, and “We Go Together” from Grease.

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• <PSA>

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• We are playing songs with nonsense words or silly content today for National Do Dah Day and we are going to open this next set with “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” from The Pirates of Penzance. The way this cut was recorded, it is followed by dialog. After that, we will hear “Backstage Babble” from the musical Applause which is the musical version of the movie All about Eve. Then we will listen to Madeline Kahn declaring “I’m Tired” from the film Blazing Saddles. And we will conclude this set with “Good Morning Starshine” from Hair.  Here’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” from The Pirates of Penzance.

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• We just heard “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” from The Pirates of Penzance, “Backstage Babble” from Applause, “I’m Tired” from the film Blazing Saddles, and “Good Morning Starshine” from Hair as we listen to songs with silly or nonsense lyrics today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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•  <Station Promo or Underwriting>

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• You are listening to “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [Station ID].

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• Today is National Do Dah Day, a “Salute to Silliness” so we are celebrating by playing songs with silly or nonsense lyrics.

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• For our third set, we open with “Thurio’s Samba” from Two Gentlemen of Verona. We will follow that with Danny Kaye singing “Tschaikowsky and Other Russians” from Lady in the Dark. Then we are going to hear “Bikini Bottom Boogie” from SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical. Many famous people wrote songs for this show. This song was composed by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. We will then hear Linda Lavin sing “The Boy from…” from The Mad Show which is a parody of the song “The Girl From Ipanema” which was anonymously composed by Stephen Sondheim. And we will conclude this set with Buddy Hackett singing “Shipoopi” from The Music Man.  Here’s “Thurio’s Samba” from Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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• We are listening to silly and nonsense songs for Do Dah Day today and you just heard “Thurio’s Samba” from Two Gentlemen of Verona, “Tschaikowsky and Other Russians” from Lady in the Dark, “Bikini Bottom Boogie” from SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical, “The Boy from…” from The Mad Show, and “Shipoopi” from The Music Man.

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• <Donation Copy>

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• <Other Show Promo>

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• And now for our concluding set of silly or nonsense songs for Do Dah Day we begin with Angela Lansbury and cast singing “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Then we are going to hear Ricardo Montalban singing “Monkey in the Mango Tree” from Jamaica. We will follow that with “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, the ultimate Do Dah Day song, from Song of the South, and we will conclude with Ed Wynn and cast singing “I Love to Laugh” from Mary Poppins. Here’s “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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• You just heard “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, “Monkey in the Mango Tree” from Jamaica, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from Song of the South, and “I Love to Laugh” from Mary Poppins as we conclude today’s show of silly and nonsense songs for National Do Dah Day.

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• Next week, May 25th, our theme is going to be Movie Music, songs from Movies.

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• And that concludes this week’s edition of “well, That’s Show Biz!”. If you would like to assist with a future show, send your theme and song suggestions to me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you enjoyed today’s show, please contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know. And don’t forget to tell your friends to join us every Sunday at 1pm for more of “well, That’s Show Biz!” on WRUU-LP, Savannah, GA, 107.5FM and WRUU.org.  We are Savannah Soundings, Community Radio with Global Soul.

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• Please stay tuned for “Music At The Movies”, coming up next, hosted by Aiden Peck and I will see you next week. So long.