well, That's Show Biz, 11-09-2025 4-32 Geography Awareness Week

Geography Awareness Week 

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

11-09-2025

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, and every 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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• Every time someone asks me, “Where you going?”, I invariably answer, “Barcelona”. This is usually followed by the sound of crickets. Very few people get the reference. Well, here it is.

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• You just heard the song “Barcelona” from Stephen Sondheim’s Company which starts off our celebration of Geography Awareness Week. Today we are playing songs that have place names in their titles.

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• We started off in Europe, Barcelona, Spain to be exact and we are going to move north into France with the song “It’s Nicer In Nice” from The Boy Friend. (This song also references other places.) Then we will continue north with composer Cole Porter singing his song “I Love Paris” originally from Can-Can. We will remain in Paris where Robert Preston describes “Gay Paree” from the film Victor / Victoria. Afterwards we continue north to hear about the region of “Normandy” from Once Upon a Mattress. And we will conclude this five song set by crossing the Channel to hear Angela Lansbury tell us about “The Worst Pies in London” from Sweeney Todd. Here’s “It’s Nicer In Nice” from The Boy Friend.

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• Today starts Geography Awareness Week and we started off in Western Europe with “It’s Nicer In Nice” from The Boy Friend, Cole Porter singing his song “I Love Paris”, “Gay Paree” from the film Victor / Victoria, “Normandy” from Once Upon a Mattress, and “The Worst Pies in London” from Sweeney Todd.

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• We are playing songs with place names in their titles as today begins Geography Awareness Week. For the next set, we head to Thailand in Southeast Asia and begin with “Bangkok / One Night In Bangkok” from Chess. We then move to Japan for “Welcome to Kanagawa” from Pacific Overtures. And we end up hearing about “Ceylon” from The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Here’s “One Night In Bangkok” from Chess.

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• You just heard “One Night In Bangkok” from Chess, “Welcome to Kanagawa” from Pacific Overtures, and “Ceylon” from The Mystery of Edwin Drood as we listen to songs with place names in their titles to mark the start of Geography Awareness Week 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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• Today begins Geography Awareness Week and we are honoring this week by playing songs with place names in their titles.  The first set covered Western Europe and the second set covered Southeast Asia. For the second half of the show we are going to stay in the United States and for our next set we will focus on the South West U.S..

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• We open with “Big D”, short for Dallas, from The Most Happy Fella. Then we will hear Ann-Margret singing about “The Bus From Amarillo” from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. And we will close the set with Jeremy Jordan longing for “Santa Fe” from Newsies. Here’s “Big D” from The Most Happy Fella.

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• We are listening to songs with place names in their titles today to start off Geography Awareness Week and you just heard “Big D”, short for Dallas, from The Most Happy Fella, “The Bus From Amarillo” from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, and “Santa Fe” from Newsies.

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• Continuing our geographical tour to mark the start of Geography Awareness Week, we travel to the midwest to “Kansas City” from the 2019 cast recording of Oklahoma!. Then we will hear little Ronnie Howard lisping through “Gary, Indiana” from the film version of The Music Man. and we will make a stop to hear Lesley Ann Warren sing about “Chicago, Illinois” from the movie Victor / Victoria. Here’s  “Kansas City” from Oklahoma!.

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• You just heard “Kansas City” from Oklahoma!, “Gary, Indiana” from The Music Man, and “Chicago, Illinois” from Victor / Victoria.

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• But we are not done yet. We still have the East Coast to cover. Here’s “Good Morning Baltimore” from the film version of Hairspray followed by one other song.

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• You just heard “Good Morning Baltimore” from Hairspray and Liza Minnelli with the “Theme” from the film New York, New York. And that concludes our show for Geography Awareness Week.

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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.