well, That's Show Biz, 08-31-2025 4-22 Labor Day 2025

Labor Day 2025

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

8-31-2025

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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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• Tomorrow is Labor Day, a day to celebrate workers and unions. Unions gave us better wages, benefits, and working conditions. They gave us the 40 hour work week, the 8 hour work day, the weekend, and the end of child labor. All things to be celebrated.

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• For our first set, we are going to start with “At the End of the Day” from Les Miserables. This was at a time before there were union protections. We will follow that with “Ooh! My Feet!” from The Most Happy Fella. Then we will hear George Michael sing the Yp Harburg classic song “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”. And we will close the set with the newsies singing their pre-union song “Carrying the Banner” from Newsies.  Here’s “At the End of the Day” from Les Miserables.

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• We are celebrating Labor Day today and you just heard “At the End of the Day” from Les Miserables, “Ooh! My Feet!” from The Most Happy Fella, George Michael singing “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”, and “Carrying the Banner” from Newsies.

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• Tomorrow is Labor Day so we are celebrating today. Opening our second set we have the Newsies forming their union with the song “The World Will Know”. We will follow that with the song “A Secretary Is Not a Toy” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. And we will close the set with the title song from The Pajama Game and the song “Racing With The Clock”. Here’s “The World Will Know” from Newsies.

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• You just heard “The World Will Know” from Newsies, “A Secretary Is Not a Toy” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and the title song from The Pajama Game and the song “Racing With The Clock” as we celebrate Labor 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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• We are celebrating Labor Day today with songs about workers and unions.

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• The International Ladies Garment Workers Union created a musical revue, Pins and Needles in 1937 that ran on Broadway for 3 years. The show looked at current events from a pro-union standpoint. In 1962, to commemorate the 25th anniversary Columbia Records released a studio recording which featured a young, pre-Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand. From Pins and Needles, we are going to hear the songs “One Big Union for Two” and Barbra Streisand singing “Sitting On Your Status Quo”. We will end the set with Barbra Streisand and the cast of 1962's I Can Get It For You Wholesale singing “Ballad of the Garment Trade”. Here’s “One Big Union for Two” from Pins and Needles.

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• We just heard “One Big Union for Two” and “Sitting On Your Status Quo” from Pins and Needles and “Ballad of the Garment Trade” from I Can Get It For You Wholesale.

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• And now for our final set for Labor Day we will start with Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara singing the title song from Nice Work If You Can Get It. We will then hear “Seven-And-A Half Cents” from The Pajama Game. And we close it out with the Newsies going on strike with “Seize The Day”. Here’s Nice Work If You Can Get It.

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• You just heard the title song from Nice Work If You Can Get It, “Seven-And-A Half Cents” from The Pajama Game, and “Seize The Day” from Newsies as we conclude our celebration of Labor Day.

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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.