well, That's Show Biz, 03-02-2025 3-47 The Oscars 2025

The Oscars 2025

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

3-02--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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• Tonight is the 97th Academy Awards, the Oscars, and today, we are going to showcase the Best Original Song winners starting with 1935 and going decade by decade until we get to this year’s nominated songs. You will see how music has changed over the decades.

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• We will start off the first set with 1935s Oscar winning song “Lullaby of Broadway” from Gold Diggers of 1935. Then we will hear “It Might As Well Be Spring” from 1945s Rodgers & Hammerstein film musical State Fair. After that, we will hear The Four Aces sing the title song from the 1955 film Love is a Many Splendored Thing. And we will conclude this first set with Tony Bennett singing “The Shadow of Your Smile”, the love theme from 1965s The Sand Piper. Here is “Lullaby of Broadway” from Gold Diggers of 1935.

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• We are listening to Oscar winning songs from each decade and we started with “Lullaby of Broadway” from Gold Diggers of 1935, “It Might As Well Be Spring” from 1945s State Fair, the title song from the 1955 film Love is a Many Splendored Thing, and we ended this set with “The Shadow of Your Smile”, the love theme from 1965s The Sand Piper.

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• For the Academy Awards later tonight we are listening to Best Original Song winners from every decade and starting off our second set we have Keith Carradine singing “I’m Easy” from 1975s Nashville. After that we will hear Lionel Richie singing “Say You, Say Me” from 1985s White Nights. We will follow that with Judy Kuhn singing “Colors of the Wind” from 1995s Pocahontas. Now 2005s entrant is very problematic for our show as the winner was “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” from Hustle & Flow. This is a rap song that contains words that the FCC will not allow me to play and I could not find a cleaned up version. So we will bypass that and go right to Sam Smith with “Writing’s on the Wall” from 2015s James Bond entrant, Spectre. Here’s 1975s “I’m Easy” from the movie Nashville.

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• We are listening to Best Original Song Oscar winners today and you just heard “I’m Easy” from 1975s Nashville, “Say You, Say Me” from 1985s White Nights, “Colors of the Wind” from 1995s Pocahontas, we had to bypass 2005s “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” from Hustle & Flow due to its choice of words, and we closed out the set with c from the 2015 James Bond movie, Spectre.

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• Tonight is the Academy Awards and we have been listening to the Best Original Song winners from every decade beginning with “Lullaby of Broadway” from the film Gold Diggers of 1935, the winner from 1935, to “Writing’s on the Wall” from the 2015 James Bond movie, Spectre. It is now time to listen to this year, 2025s nominees for Best Original Song.

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• We begin with the song “Never Too Late” from the documentary Elton John: Never Too Late where Elton John looks back on his life as he prepares for his final concert in North America at Dodger Stadium. Then we will hear two Oscar nominated songs from the movie Emilia Perez, first “El Mal” sung by Zoe Saldana followed by “Mi Camino” sung by Selena Gomez. The movie, Emilia Perez, is about a Mexican Lawyer who is given the job of helping a notorious cartel boss retire and transition into living as a woman. Here’s Elton John and Brandi Carlile with “Never Too Late”.

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• We are listening to this year’s Best Original Song nominees for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards and you just heard “Never Too Late” from the documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, and the songs “El Mal” and “Mi Camino” both from the movie Emily Perez.

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• For our final two Oscar nominated songs, we start with “Like a Bird” from the movie Sing Sing which is based on the true story of a man imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit and the creation of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the Maximum Security Prison. After that we will hear “The Journey”, sung during the end credits from the movie The Six Triple Eight. Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the movie is about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black, all-female battalion, in World War II. Here is “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing.

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• You just heard “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing and  “The Journey”, from The Six Triple Eight as we complete our look at this year’s Oscar nominated Best Original Songs. Did you make your choice? You will find out the winner tonight.

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