well, That's Show Biz, 01-25-2026 4-43 Counting Down

Counting Down

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

1-25-2026

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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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• <Play “I’ve Got Your Number”>

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• You just heard “I’ve Got Your Number” from Little Me. And we’ve got your numbers here and we will be counting them down. Today’s show is about songs with numbers either in the title or in the lyrics. And to make it more fun, I am not going to give you the title of the song, just the number, and I will let you try to figure out the song. Some of these are easy and some are more difficult. Are you ready because here we go.

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• In this first set, the numbers go from 100 million, to 525,600, to 200,000. I repeat,In this first set, the numbers go from 100 million, to 525,600, to 200,000. Here we go.

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• We’ve got your numbers and we are counting them down. You just heard “A Hundred Million Miracles” from Flower Drum Song, “Seasons Of Love”, (525,600 minutes), from Rent, and “Five Zeros”, (preceded by a 2 is 200,000) from On the Twentieth Century.

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• <PSA>

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• We are playing songs with numbers and counting them down. Obviously we can’t play all songs with numbers in them so we will be saving those for a future show.

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• For our next set, the numbers go from 100, to 76, to 42. I repeat  the numbers go from 100, to 76, to 42. Can you figure them out? Here we go.

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• You just heard “Another Hundred People” from Company, "Seventy Six Trombones” from The Music Man, and the title song from 42nd Street.

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• Stay with us as we count down songs with numbers 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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• Today’s theme is about songs with numbers and we are counting them down. For some fun, I am not giving you the titles of the songs, just the numbers, and you have to try to figure them out. Some are easy and some are more difficult. So far, we’ve had the numbers 100 million, 525,600, 200,000, 100, 76, and 42.

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• And now for our third set of numbers, the numbers go down from 17/16, to 10, to 9 to 5. I repeat, the numbers go down from 17/16, to 10, to 9 to 5. Here we go.

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• We are counting down songs with numbers and you just heard “Sixteen Going On Seventeen” from The Sound Of Music, “Ten Minutes Ago” from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and the title song from Nine to Five.

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•  <Donation Copy>

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• <Other Show Promo>

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• We are counting down songs with numbers and obviously we can’t play all songs with numbers. We’ll save those for another day. We have two songs left and for our next song, the number is 2. Are you ready? Here we go.

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• You just heard “Two By Two” from The Book of Mormon.

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• We’ve counted down songs with numbers today, today’s numbers being 100 million, 525,600, 200,000, 100, 76, 42, 17/16, 10, 9 to 5, to 2. And now, the number 1.

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• You just heard the finale to A Chorus Line, “One”, which completes today’s show of Counting Down.

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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.