well, That's Show Biz, 12-14-2025 4-37 Chanukah 2025

Chanukah 2025 

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

12-14-2025

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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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• <Play “The Chanukah Song”>

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• Tonight begins the first night of Chanukah and we started off our Chanukah celebration with Adam Sandler performing his first version of “The Chanukah Song”.

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• There are a lot of traditions that go with Chanukah and although the song “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof has nothing to do with Chanukah, it explains what tradition means to Judaism.  We will follow that with Idina Menzel singing the song “Ocho Kandelikas” which means eight candles, one for each night of Chanukah. Although it will sound Spanish it is actually in the language called Ladino which is the language spoken by the Saphardic Jews of Spain and Portugal. Here is Zero Mostel to tell us about “Tradition”.

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• Chanukah begins tonight at sundown and you just heard “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof and Idina Menzel singing the Ladino song, “Ocho Kandelikas”.

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• Tonight is the first night of Chanukah so we are celebrating by songs related to the holiday. We are going to open this set with Peter, Paul, and Mary performing Peter Yarrow’s song “Light One Candle”, a song about freedom and the responsibility that goes with that freedom. Then we will hear “The Chanukah Party” from the musical Caroline, or Change. Caroline is a maid that works for a Jewish family in Louisiana in 1963. And we will close this set with the title song from Jerry Herman’s musical Milk and Honey, a show about a busload of tourists during the early days of the State of Israel. Here’s “Light One Candle”.

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• You just heard Peter, Paul, and Mary performing “Light One Candle”, “The Chanukah Party” from the musical Caroline, or Change, and the title song from Milk and Honey as we celebrate the start of Chanukah tonight on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• Tonight is erev Chanukah which means Chanukah begins tonight so we are celebrating with songs that relate to the holiday.

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• We are going to start this set with the song “13”, the age when a Jewish child reaches their Jewish adulthood, from 13: The Musical. Then we are going to hear Kristin Chenoweth singing “We Are Lights”. We will follow that with Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram singing “Somewhere Out There” from the animated film An American Tail, which is an allegory of the Jewish immigrant experience. And we will conclude with the song “Judah Maccabbee”, the hero of the Chanukah story, by the Jewish-American rock band, Safam. Here’s “13” from 13: The Musical.

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• We are celebrating Chanukah which begins tonight at sundown and you just heard “13” from 13: The Musical, Kristin Chenoweth singing “We Are Lights”, Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram singing “Somewhere Out There” from the animated film An American Tail, and the Jewish-American rock band, Safam, singing their song “Judah Maccabbee”.

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• And now to conclude our show for Chanukah we begin with Tom Lehrer and his satirical song “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”. Then we will hear Safam again with their song “Candles of the Menorah”. And we will conclude with the song “Shalom” from the musical Milk and Honey. Here’s “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”.

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• You just heard Tom Lehrer’s satirical song “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”, Safam singing their song “Candles of the Menorah”, and “Shalom” from the musical Milk and Honey as we conclude today’s show for Chanukah.

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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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