well, That's Show Biz, 05-31-2026 5-19 R & H Celebration 2026

Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration 2026

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

5-31-2026

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• “June IS Bustin’ All Over” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel leads us into today’s theme. Tomorrow is June 1st so today we celebrate with our 5th annual Rodger & Hammerstein tribute. 

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• We open our first set with “It’s A Grand Night For Singing” from the Broadway production of State Fair. Then Julie Andrews tells us about “A Lovely Night” from the original 1957 TV production of Cinderella. And we finish the set with Gordon MacRae declaring “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from the film version of Oklahoma!. Here’s “It’s A Grand Night For Singing” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s State Fair.

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• We are celebrating Rodgers & Hammerstein today and you just heard “It’s A Grand Night For Singing” from State Fair, “A Lovely Night” from Cinderella, and “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from Oklahoma!.

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• We are celebrating Rodgers & Hammerstein today and for this set we have Mitzi Gaynor explaining that she is a “Cock-Eyed Optimist” from the film version of South Pacific. Then Nancy Kwan declares “I Enjoy Being A Girl” from the film version of Flower Drum Song. We follow that with “I Have Dreamed” from the 2015 Broadway revival of The King and I. And we will end the set with Juanita Hall and “Happy Talk” from the original 1949 Broadway production of South Pacific. Here’s “Cock-Eyed Optimist” from South Pacific.

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• You just heard “Cock-Eyed Optimist” from South Pacific, “I Enjoy Being A Girl” from Flower Drum Song, “I Have Dreamed” from The King and I, and “Happy Talk” from South Pacific as we celebrate with our 5th annual Rodger & Hammerstein celebration today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• Today is our 5th annual Rodgers & Hammerstein celebration. For this set, we are going to highlight the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II before he collaborated with Richard Rodgers.

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• We are going to begin with two songs from the operetta The New Moon which he created with composer Sigmund Romberg. First “Stouthearted Men” followed by “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise”. Next we will hear a song originally written by Kalmar and Ruby for, but not used in, the Marx Brothers film A Night at The Opera. Hammerstein then took the lyrics and adapted them for a new song called “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” which was recorded by Louis Armstrong. We are going to hear that recording. We will then end the set with “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” from Showboat. Here is “Stouthearted Men” from The New Moon.

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• You just heard “Stouthearted Men” and “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise” both songs from the Romberg operetta  The New Moon, Louis Armstrong singing “A Kiss to Build a Dream On”, and “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” from Showboat, all songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

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• We are celebrating Rodgers & Hammerstein today. There will be one final song after this set.

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• Here is Gordon MacRae singing about “The Surrey with the Fringe On Top” from the film version of Oklahoma followed by John Raitt pleading for “The Highest Judge of All” from Carousel.

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• You just heard “The Surrey with the Fringe On Top” from the film version of Oklahoma and “The Highest Judge of All” from Carousel.

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• We are going to conclude our Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration for 2026 with arguably the definitive version of “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music. Here is Audra McDonald with “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”.

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• You just heard Audra McDonald sing “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music which concludes today’s Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration.

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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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