well, That's Show Biz, 07-06-2025 4-14 Americana 2025

Americana 2025

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

7-06-2025

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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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•  Even though today is July 6th, it is still the July 4th weekend. So today our theme is Americana, songs about the American experience.

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• We are going to open with “The Egg” from the musical 1776, a song about the Declaration of Independence. We will then go to a song about a traditional American eating experience, “A Real Nice Clambake” from the musical Carousel. And we will complete this set with two songs with a similar theme. First, “The Great Come-And-Get-It Day” from the film version of Finian’s Rainbow in which the townspeople imagine ordering purchases from a mail order catalog. And then we are going to hear about “The Wells Fargo Wagon” from the film version of The Music Man as the townspeople await the coming of their mail order purchases. Here is “The Egg” from 1776.

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• We are listening to songs that feature Americana today and you just heard “The Egg” from 1776, “A Real Nice Clambake” from Carousel, “The Great Come-And-Get-It Day” from Finian’s Rainbow, and “The Wells Fargo Wagon” from The Music Man.

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• For our next set of Americana, we are going to open with the song “Corn” from the musical Shucked about the all-American grain called…corn. We will then stay with this agriculture theme and hear the song “Joey, Joey, Joey” from The Most Happy Fella as vineyard foreman Joey sings about moving on. And we will close this set with “The Farmer and the Cowman” from the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!. Here’s “Corn”.

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• You just heard “Corn” from Shucked,  “Joey, Joey, Joey” from The Most Happy Fella, and “The Farmer and the Cowman” from Oklahoma! as we continue with Americana today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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

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• Although Independence Day was Friday, today is still considered part of the July 4th weekend so, as is our tradition here, our theme is Americana, songs about the American experience.

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• We are going to begin our third set with “Non-Stop” from the American musical Hamilton. Then Ethel Merman, as the original Annie Oakley, serenades us with “Moonshine Lullaby” from Annie Get Your Gun. And we will end the set with “Freedom” from Shenandoah. Here’s “Non-Stop” from Hamilton.

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• Americana is today’s theme and you just heard “Non-Stop” from Hamilton, “Moonshine Lullaby” from Annie Get Your Gun, and “Freedom” from Shenandoah.

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• To conclude our Americana themed show, we have Jonathan Groff as King George singing “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton. After that we will hear “Ol’ Man River” from the film version of Showboat. Then we will hear Keith Carradine as Will Rogers singing “Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” from The Will Rogers Follies, and we will close it out with the title song from the film version of Oklahoma!. Here’s “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton.

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• You just heard “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton, “Ol’ Man River” from Showboat, “ Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” from The Will Rogers Follies, the title song from Oklahoma! as we conclude our Americana theme for the July 4th weekend.

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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.

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