well, That's Show Biz, 04-21-2024 3-3 Earth Day 2024

Earth Day 2024

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

04-21-2024

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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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• Our theme today is Earth Day which is tomorrow April 22nd. Today’s show deals with various aspects of our home planet and how it is up to us to care for it.

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• We are going to open with the title song to Jerry Herman’s Dear World. Next we will hear Justin Guarini singing “I Talk to the Trees” from Paint Your Wagon. Then, Bernadette Peters sings “I Remember” originally from Stephen Sondheim’s Evening Primrose, and we will close out the set with John Cullum singing “On a Clear Day” from the original production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Here’s Angela Lansbury with “Dear World”.

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• You just heard the title song to Dear World, “I Talk to the Trees” from Paint Your Wagon, “I Remember” originally from Evening Primrose, and the title song to On a Clear DayYou Can See Forever as we celebrate Earth Day today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• Tomorrow is Earth Day and we are celebrating it here today with songs about the Earth.

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• Starting off our second set is the song “Africa Calling” by my former singing partner, Danny Adlerman, from his award winning children’s album One Size Fits All. Then we will hear my cousin, Ethan Freeman, sing “The Heather On the Hill” from the 1995 London Studio Cast Recording of Brigadoon. And we will close the set with “Muddy Water” from Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Here’s “Africa Calling”.

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• We just heard the children’s song “Africa Calling” from the award winning children’s album One Size Fits All, “The Heather On the Hill” from Brigadoon, and “Muddy Water” from Big River as we celebrate Earth 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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• Earth Day is tomorrow so we are celebrating it today with songs about the Earth. For our third set, we are going to open with ‘Morning Glow” from Pippin. Next we are going to hear Tom Lehrer’s satirical song “Pollution”. After that, we will hear Kermit the Frog’s “Bein’ Green”. Then we will hear Barbra Streisand singing “Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here” from the film version of On a Clear Day, and we will end the set with the beautiful “I Belong Here” from Jerry Herman’s The Grand Tour. Here’s John Rubenstein with “Morning Glow” from Pippin.

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• Tomorrow is Earth Day and you just heard “Morning Glow” from Pippin, Tom Lehrer’s “Pollution”, Kermit with “Bein’ Green”, Barbra Streisand with “Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here” from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and “I Belong Here” from The Grand Tour.

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• If you would like to help out with a future show, send your theme and song suggestions to me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com and if you are enjoying today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know.

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• And now to complete our Earth Day show, we are going to go back to Jerry Herman’s Dear World with the song “One Person” about how one person can make a difference. Then we will go back to Kermit with his signature song “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie. And we will close it out with Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song”. The video for this song is extremely powerful and tells us that it is not too late.  Here’s “One Person” from Dear World.

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• You just heard “One Person” from Dear World, “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie, and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song as we close out this year’s celebration of Earth Day on “well, That’s Show Biz!”

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• If you would like to assist with a future show, send me your theme and song suggestions to wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you enjoyed today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know. And don’t forget to tell your friends to listen with you every Sunday at 1pm on [Station ID] or streaming on-line at WRUU.org. See you next week.