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By Wayne Cresser | WRIU | Dec 28, 2025

Wrapping up 2025 with music from some of the year’s best scores, a deep dive into the Great American Songbook with Gus Khan, and tributes to the lives and achievements of some cinematic legends.

Gus Kahn’s most famous songs include  “It Had To Be You” (1924), with music by Isham Jones;  “Makin’ Whoopee” (1928), with music by Walter Donaldson; and “My Buddy” (1922) with music by Walter Donaldson.

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Celebrating Lyricist Gus Khan

HOUR ONE:

• PICTURE THIS “That’s a Movie Song!”

• Dignity from Robyn Sings, composed by Bob Dylan, performed by Robyn Hitchcock

• My Baby Just Cares for Me from Whoopee! composed by Walter Donaldson and Gus Khan, performed by Eddie Cantor

• My Baby Just Cares for Me from Little Girl Blue, performed by Nina Simone

• It Had to be You from When Harry Met Sally, composed by Isham Jones and Gus Khan, performed by Harry Connick Jr

• Jay Kelly Theme from Jay Kelly, composed by Nicholas Britell

• On the Nature of Daylight from Hamnet, composed by Max Richter

• I Lied to You from Sinners, composed by Ludwig Goransson and Raphael Saadiq, performed by Miles Caton

• Rocky Road to Dublin from Sinners (traditional), performed by Jack O’Connell, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden and Sinners cast

• Sorry Baby (piano solo) from Sorry Baby, composed and performed by Lia Ouyang Rusli

• River of Hills from One Battle After Another, composed by Jonny Greenwood, performed by Greenwood with the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Hugh Brunt

• Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp) from Africana, composed by Neil Moret and Gus Khan, performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra

• All God Chillun’s Got Rhythm from A Day at the Races, composed by Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn and Bronisław Kaper, performed by Judy Garland

• Title Song from Flying Down to Rio, composed by E. Eliscu. Gus Khan and Vincent Youmans, performed by Fred Astaire

Thanks a Million from Thanks A Million, composed by Arthur Johnston and Gus Khan, performed by Taco Ockerse (aka Taco

• You Stepped Out of a Dream from Ziegfeld Girl, composed by Nacio Herb Brown and Gus Khan, performed by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra

• Makin’ Whoopee from Whoopee!, composed by Walter Donaldson and Gus Khan, performed by Dr. John and Ricky Lee Jones

HOUR TWO:

• My Buddy from I’ll See You in My Dreams, composed by Walter Donaldson and Gus Khan, performed by Doris Day

Dream a Little Dream of Me, composed by Fabian Andre, Gus Khan and Wilbur Schwandt, performed by the Mamas and Papas

• Ukelele Lady, composed by Richard A. Whiting and Gus Khan, performed by Arlo Guthrie

• It Had to be You from I’ll See You in my Dreams, composed by Isham Jones and

• Day Dreaming from You Were Never Lovelier, composed by Jerome Kern and Gus Khan, performed by Sandy Stewart

• Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye!)  from Bombo, composed by Ernie Erdman and Danny Russo,or Ted Fio Rito and Robert King (melody), Gus Khan (lyrics),  performed by Al Jolson

• Bus Ride to Paradise from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, composed by Jack Nitzche

• End Title Music from Cool Hand Luke, composed by Lalo Schifrin

 

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NEXT WEEK’S SHOW
Our next show’s theme is  Italian Schemes and Train Dreams–Music of Italian Cinema, as well as more rounding up of the best scores of 2025.

 

“Nights are long since you went away
I think about you all through the day
My buddy, my buddy
Nobody quite so true
Miss your voice, the touch of your hand
Just long to know that you understand
My buddy, my buddy
Your buddy misses you” – Gus Khan