well, That's Show Biz, 12-21-2025 4-38 Christmas 2025

Christmas 2025 

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

12-21-2025

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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 “Christmas Time Is Here”>

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• Yes, it’s Christmas time and you just heard “Christmas Time Is Here” from my favorite TV Christmas special, 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas. This is the 2025 “well, That’s Show Biz!” Christmas show.

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• For our first set we start off with “We Need a Little Christmas” from Mame. After that we will hear “Counting Down to Christmas” from A Christmas Story: The Musical. Then we will hear “Christmas Is My Favorite Time of Year” from Catch Me If You Can. And we will end the set with “Be A Santa” originally from the musical Subways Are For Sleeping, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne. Here’s “We Need a Little Christmas”.

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• It’s our 2025 Christmas show and you just heard “We Need a Little Christmas” from Mame, “Counting Down to Christmas” from A Christmas Story: The Musical, “Christmas Is My Favorite Time of Year” from Catch Me If You Can, and “Be A Santa” from the musical Subways Are For Sleeping. Two interesting things about Subways Are For Sleeping, first, it didn’t do too well partly because the New York City Transit Authority refused to allow ads on its subways and buses because they were afraid that homeless people would accept the message in the title. And second, to try to fool customers, producer David Merrick invited people with the same names as noted critics to attend the show and then published their reviews to fool people into thinking that the real critics loved the show.

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• <PSA>

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• It’s Christmas Time and we begin our next set with “Turkey Lurkey Time” from the 2010 revival of Promises, Promises. If you’ve ever seen a video of this song you will understand why the dancers went to see chiropractors practically every day. We will follow that with “Twelve Days to Christmas” from the 2016 revival of  She Loves Me. And we will end this set with “Sparklejollytwinklejingley” from Elf: The Musical. It’s “Turkey Lurkey Time”.

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• You just heard “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises, “Twelve Days to Christmas” from She Loves Me, and “Sparklejollytwinklejingley” from Elf: The Musical as we celebrate the Christmas season today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• <Station Promo>

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

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• It’s Christmas time so we are regaling you with songs for Christmas.

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• Beginning this 5 song set, we have the finale to the musical Annie, “A New Deal for Christmas”. Next we have “Pine Cones and Holly Berries” from Meredith Wilson’s Here’s Love, the musicalized retelling of the movie Miracle on 34th Street, where he incorporates his previously written song, “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”. We will follow that with “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” from the TV special, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Then we will hear the Jackson 5 sing “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”. And we will end this set with Dolly Parton singing “Hard Candy Christmas” originally from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. Here’s “A New Deal for Christmas” from Annie.

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• You just heard “A New Deal for Christmas” from Annie, “Pine Cones and Holly Berries” from Here’s Love, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the Jackson 5 singing “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, and Dolly Parton singing “Hard Candy Christmas” originally from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.

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• <Other Show Promo>

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• <Donation Copy>

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• For our next to last set of Christmas music we are going to open with Judy Garland singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from the film Meet Me In St. Louis. And we will close this set with Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” from the film Holiday Inn. Here’s Judy.

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• You just heard Judy Garland singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from the film Meet Me In St. Louis and Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” from the film Holiday Inn.

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• And now to conclude our Christmas show here is Boris Karloff and the MGM Studio Orchestra & Chorus with the conclusion to Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!.

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• You just heard the conclusion to Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! which concludes today’s Christmas show on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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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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