well, That's Show Biz, 08-02-2026 5-18 Friendship Day 2026

Friendship Day 2026

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

8-02-2026

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• The 1st Sunday in August is National Friendship Day and you just heard the theme to the Golden Girls television show, “Thank You For Being a Friend”.

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• Every song today highlights an aspect of Friendship.

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• We are going to open this set with Randy Newman singing “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from Toy Story. Then, Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad bring us “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” from The Book of Mormon. We follow that with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane singing “‘Til Him” from Mel Brooks’ The Producers. And we will close this set with Joel Grey and Ronald Holgate proclaiming “You I Like” from Jerry Herman’s The Grand Tour. Here’s “You’ve Got a Friend In Me”.

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• It’s National Friendship Day and you just heard “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from Toy Story, “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” from The Book of Mormon, “‘Til Him” The Producers, and “You I Like” from The Grand Tour.

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• We are playing songs about Friendship today for National Friendship Day and we are beginning this set with Robin Williams singing “Friend Like Me” from the animated film Aladdin. Then we are going to hear Cole Porter’s “Friendship” which was originally from his musical Dubarry Was a Lady but has since been added to his musical Anything Goes. After that we will hear “A Friend is Still a Friend” from The Wind in the Willows. And we will finish this set with “Sincerely Me” from the film version of Dear Evan Hansen as nearly friendless Evan asks his pseudo friend to help him create a fake friendship between him and Conner Murphy who had committed suicide through a series of emails. Here’s Robin Williams with “Friend Like Me”.

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• You just heard “Friend Like Me” from Aladdin, “Friendship” from Anything Goes, “A Friend is Still a Friend” from The Wind in the Willows, and “Sincerely Me” from Dear Evan Hansen as we listen to songs about Friendship for National Friendship Day 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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• The first Sunday in August is National Friendship Day. To commemorate the occasion, we are playing songs of friendship today.

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• We are going to begin this set with Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez singing about “Old Friends” from the 2023 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. We will follow that with “What It Means to Be a Friend” from 13:The Musical. And we will end the set with Ben Platt singing about being a friend with the song “For Forever” from Dear Evan Hansen. Here’s “Old Friends” from Merrily We Roll Along.

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• Today is National Friendship Day and you just heard “Old Friends” from Merrily We Roll Along, “What It Means to Be a Friend” from 13:The Musical, and “For Forever” from Dear Evan Hansen.

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• We are about to close out today’s show for National Friendship Day. We will have one last song after this two song set.

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• First we have the classic song about friendship from the musical Mame. We are going to hear Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur sing about their friendship with the song “Bosom Buddies”. Then we will hear Bette Midler’s signature song “Friends” which was featured at the end of the Stephen Sondheim scripted mystery movie, The Last of Sheila. Here’s “Bosom Buddies”.

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• You just heard the friendship songs “Bosom Buddies” from Mame and Bette Midler singing “Friends”.

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• Friends are a good thing to have and time can be an enemy of friendship. It is a rare but wonderful thing if childhood friendships can sustain themselves as we grow older. I wonder if the Peanuts gang were allowed to age if their friendships could be sustained. To conclude our show for National Friendship Day, here is the finale, “Happiness” from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.

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• You just heard “Happiness” from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown which concludes today’s show for National Friendship Day.

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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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