well, That's Show Biz, 06-15-2025 4-11 Father's Day 2025

Father’s Day 2025 

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

6-15-2025

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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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• Today’s show was pre-recorded.

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• Today is Father’s Day so today we are playing songs about fathers, by fathers, and to fathers.

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• We are going to open the first set with the jaunty “Fatherhood Blues” from Baby, a show about three different couples expecting a baby. We will follow that with the beautiful “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton, and we will conclude with two songs from Annie, “Something Was Missing” and “I Don't Need Anything But You”. We just lost the composer of Annie, Charles Strouse. Here is “Fatherhood Blues” for Father’s Day.

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• We just heard “Fatherhood Blues” from Baby, “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton, and two songs from Annie, “Something Was Missing” and “I Don't Need Anything But You” as we celebrate Father’s Day today.

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• We are celebrating Father’s Day today and we are starting off our second set with Patrick Wilson singing “Breeze Off the River” from The Full Monty. Then we are going to hear Bob Gunton with “Fathers and Sons” from Working. And we will conclude the set with Norbert Leo Butz singing “Be The Hero” from Big Fish. Here’s “Breeze Off the River” from The Full Monty.

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• We just heard “Breeze Off the River” from The Full Monty, “Fathers and Sons” from Working, and “Be The Hero” from Big Fish as we celebrate Father’s 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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• Today is Father’s Day and we are listening to songs about fathers, by fathers, and to fathers.

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• Paul Lynde opens our third set singing about “Kids” from the film version of Bye Bye Birdie. As a side note, Bye Bye Birdie was also composed by Charles Strouse. We will follow that with Nathan Lane singing “Happy/Sad” from The Addams Family. And we will close the set with Hal Linden singing “Sons” from The Rothschilds. Here’s “Kids”.

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• We are celebrating Father’s Day today and you just heard “Kids” from Bye Bye Birdie, “Happy/Sad” from The Addams Family, and “Sons” from The Rothschilds.

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• And now for our final Father’s Day set we are going to hear John Raitt singing “Soliloquy” from Carousel and we are going to conclude with a Live performance of Cat Stevens’ “Father & Son”. Here’s “Soliloquy” for Father’s Day.

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• You just heard “Soliloquy” from Carousel and Cat Stevens performing his “Father & Son”. And that concludes today’s Father’s Day show.

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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.