Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #59: BECK

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The 59th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Jan. 28, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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A traveler stops by the roadside and sees a nice place to turn in for the night. He walks through the front door, and the bellhop immediately hands him a loaf of sourdough. The traveler shrugs and walks to the front desk, but then he gasps, because right in front of him is world-famous singer-songwriter Beck Hansen.

“I’m a big fan,” the traveler says to the musician, who turns around and punches the poor guy, pow!, right in the face.

The traveler storms to the front desk and says, “Hey! What kind of hotel are you running here?”

The clerk says, “Oh, sir, we’re not a hotel. We’re a Bread and Beck Fist.”

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/28/2017): IRIS DORBIAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Iris Dorbian
Topics include: business writing, Epiphany in Lilacs, the Holocaust.

Segment airs Jan. 28, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #591 (1/28/2017): LILAC TIME

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Here is the 591st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 28, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: author Iris Dorbian, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Iris Dorbian (“An Epiphany in Lilacs”). Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Maggie Roche, In the News), Greeley Crimes, Old Times, & Fraccidents, Wretched Pun of Destiny (b&b), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (shadows in the night).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (free tiramisu!, bitter tears, dreidel straws)
00:39:00 GREELEY CRIMES, OLD TIMES, & FRACCIDENTS
00:57:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Maggie Roche
01:18:00 Sponsors
01:21:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:35:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Iris Dorbian
02:09:00 Sponsors
02:12:30 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #43 (Dick Van Dyke) {originally aired 7/4/15}
02:13:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (shadows in the night)
02:31:00 Friends
02:37:30 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #59 (b&b)
02:39:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:19:00 Weather
03:21:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 28, 2017 Playlist: “Apache Tears” (00:20:00; Johnny Cash). “You’re the One” (01:01:00), “Come Softy to Me” (01:04:00), “Jill of All Trades” (01:07:00) & “A Prayer” (01:10:30; The Roches). “It Only Takes a Taste” (01:32:00; Waitress 2015 Broadway cast). “Every Time I Smell Lilacs” (Nunsense A-Men 2007 touring cast). “Some Enchanted Evening” (02:19:00), “Full Moon and Empty Arms” (02:22:30) & “Autumn Leaves” (02:26:00; Bob Dylan). “Fact and Fiction” (Bright Lights Big City 2005 studio cast). “Overend Watts” (02:42:30; Mambo Sons). “Twenty Flight Rock” (02:45:30; Paul McCartney). “Hot `Lanta” (02:49:00; The Allman Brothers). “Hurt” (02:54:00; Johnny Cash). “I Haven’t Seen Mary in Years” (02:58:00; Bill Monroe). “Love is All Around” (03:27:30; Husker Du).



(Iris Dorbian’s An Epiphany in Lilacs, the back cover of Bob Dylan’s Shadows in the Night, Maggie Roche)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/21/2017): VELVEL PASTERNAK & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jewish musicologist Velvel Pasternak.

Topics include: nigunim, Shlomo Carlebach, fake books.

Segment airs Jan.. 21, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By #590 (1/21/2017): THE VELVEL UNDERGROUND

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Here is the 590th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 21, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Jewish musicologist Velvel Pasternak, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musicologist Velvel Pasternak. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes, Slimes, & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (cafe), Saturday Segues (Richie Havens, In the News).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (klezmer, indiegogo, rimshots, executions)
00:32:00 GREELEY CRIMES, SLIMES, & OLD TIMES
00:56:00 Weather
00:59:00 MORE GREELEY CRIMES, SLIMES, & OLD TIMES
01:27:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Richie Havens
01:47:30 Sponsors
01:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:15:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Velvel Pasternak
03:00:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (cafe)
03:19:30 Friends
03:27:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:54:30 Weather & Thanks
03:58:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 21, 2017 Playlist: “Fire Meet Gasoline” (00:39:00; Sia). “Ma Durga” (01:17:00; Krishna Das). “Morning, Morning” (01:32:00), “Dog in the Quicksand” (01:39:30) & “There’s a Hole in the Future” (01:43:30; Richie Havens). “The Long Road” (01:34:30; Cliff Eberhardt w/ Richie Havens). “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” (02:08:30; Fred Astaire).”Nigun Rikud” (02:13:00), & “Ki V Simcho” (02:56:30; Chabad Nigunim). “Sign Language” (03:02:30; Eric Clapton w/ Bob Dylan). “One More Cup of Coffee” (03:05:30; Iridescence). “Up to Me” (03:09:30; Bob Dylan). “Ireland” (03:28:00; Greg Trooper). “Je veux vivre dans” (03:32:00; Romeo et Juliette w/ Roberta Peters). “The Circus is in Town” (03:36:00; Patton Oswalt). “Hotter than That” (03:40:00; Louis Armstrong). “San Miguel” (03:43:00; Lonnie Donegan). “Happy Birthday” (04:01:00; Weird Al Yankovic).

(pictured: Velvel Pasternak, Richie Havens, Caffe Lena.) 

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/14/17): JEFF GOODMAN

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Friend and former guest co-host Jeff Goodman pays a return visit to the Daverhood.

Topics include: Long Island, Las Vegas.

Segment aired Jan. 14, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #589 (1/14/2017): HEIS & LOWS

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Here is the 589th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 14, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce, theatrical composers Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews composers Zina Goldrich & Marcy Heisler. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (birthdays, in the news), Dylan – Sooner & Later (Waves on the Tracks), a call from Jeff Goodman.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/Joyce (new checks, StuporShuttle)
00:12:00 GUEST: Jeff Goodman
00:45:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (happiness, manatees)
01:01:00 Sponsors
01:07:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:18:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN (Dylan Goes Commercial)
01:29:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Birthdays
01:54:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:20:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich
03:03:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (waves on the tracks)
03:22:00 Friends
03:30:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:59:00 Weather
04:02:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 14, 2017 Playlist: “Yamin Usmol” (01:30:00; Shlomo Carlebach). “Under a Cloud” (01:33:00; The Bangles). “Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man” (01:37:00; Captain Beefheart). “Vrbana Bridge” (01:41:00; Jill Sobule). “Cry for Me” (02:18:00; Jersey Boys 2005 Broadway cast). “Ever After” (02:57:30; Marcy Heisler). “You Angel You” (03:09:30) & “Never Say Goodbye” (Bob Dylan). “If You See Her, Say Hello” (03:12:30; Russ Seeger). “What is Urinetown?” (03:31:00; Urinetown Broadway cast). “Tubular Bells” (03:35:00; Mike Oldfield). “MLK” (03:37:30; Joan Baez). “Where Do You Go to My Lovely” (03:40:00; Peter Sarstedt). “Inauguration Blues” (03:45:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “There are Bad Times Just around the Corner” (Cowardy Custard 1972 London cast; 04:07:00).

Dave’s Gone By Skit: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #143 (1/8/2017): Obama and the U.N.

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #143 (1/8/17): Obama and the U.N.

Aired Jan. 7, 2017 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube: https://youtu.be/2EY_QSuKYss

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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of January 8, 2017.

Remember that old Billy Joel song, “Leave a Tender Moment Alone?” He was talking about how he couldn’t just enjoy a romantic interlude; he had to undercut the good feelings with a gripe or a joke.  Of course, the joke was on him, since he chose Cutty Sark over Christie Brinkley. But the idea of not leaving well enough alone, of doing your best but then having the world remember your worst — that can be applied to our outgoing commander in chief, Barak Obama.

This is a man who took on a country that was in the toilet financially, emotionally, and seemingly irremediably. Eight years ago, you couldn’t pay the bills, you couldn’t get a job, you couldn’t sell a house, you couldn’t retire, you couldn’t visit New Orleans without scuba gear. Since President Obama has been in office, change has been slow, but to deny that an epic turn-around has occurred means that either you’re a retard or a Republican. On top of this, we killed Bin Laden, pointless laws about harmless crimes have been easing up, and faigelehs can marry whomever they want and, therefore, be as miserable as the rest of us.  Through it all, Obama has maintained his poise, his cool, and his through-the-roof hipness quotient, kind of like yours truly.

And yet, mistakes were made. He rammed Obamacare up the American tush like a bad thermometer, giving people who never had health insurance coverage, but giving the rest of us a severe pain in the wallet. He completely screwed the pooch on managing the rise of ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic Gee-Whiz, or whatever nickname the religion of peace is using these days.

But the most resistible piece de resistance of Obama’s legacy came right near the end. He and his minion, John Kerry, saw an opportunity to take a little dump on Israel. The United Nations, a toothless and brainless entity that has kept exactly zero wars from happening since its founding in 1945, voted last month to condemn Israel for settlement building. These houses, built on the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are controversial because the territory was annexed when Moses kicked Mohammed’s ass in the Six Day War. In other words, it’s been legitimate Israeli land for 50 years, but the Palestinians are still screaming for it like babies ripped from their mama’s boobies. And, of course, the greater Arab world agrees because any reason to hate Israel is fine by them. England agrees because they’re still pissed at Israel for pushing them off the sand. Other countries agree because anti-Semitism has proved a lot more durable than communism. But the United States, our friend and ally, has always stood with Eretz Yisroel against these bullies and bastards. Until December.

See, the left-wing liberals don’t like Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, because he cares more about the safety and security of his nation than playing diplomatic blind man’s bluff. And he says, “Why the hell should we stop building settlements on our own soil until we actually make a deal—God forbid—to give the land back?” If you’re gonna sell your house when you’re 80 years old, does that mean you can’t put in a new bathroom when you’re 58?

Like every American president, Obama wanted to be the one who made lasting peace in the Middle East. He yearned to be the great statesman who solved the Israeli-Palestinian problem.  How do presidents do this?  By asking Israel to suffer. Give up this, give up that, and maybe the Arabs will promise to leave you in peace. Give away land you won fair and square in 1948 and 1967 and 1973, and maybe the Palis will cease lobbing scud missiles at you.  Maybe.

What do the Arabs have to give up? Ummm.. ummm.. oh yeah.. they must make the terribly difficult sacrifice of admitting that Israel exists. Oh, the poor dears.  Even John Kerry, in his misguided, hot-headed speech after the UN vote, reminded the Arabs that if they want Israel to come back to the negotiating table, they have to call it “Israel” and not “that smudgy place next to Egypt on the map.” But shamefully, Kerry and Obama made the United States abstain from the UN condemnation vote, rather than veto it. It was Barry’s last dig at Benjy. His way of saying, “You won’t obey me? Fine, I’ll tell mommy, and you’ll get in trouble.” Netanyahu, hearing this, stuck his tongue out and replied, “Nyah-nyah, neener-neener. So you’re the big peacemaker with Muslims? Do they know that in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen?  Pick a country; there’s a genocide. But Israel is the bad guy for constructing houses and universities on its own terra firma.”

I have long said that when it comes to Jews and Palestinians, I am in favor of a two-state solution: the Jewish state of Israel, and an Arab state — in Lebanon, or Libya, or Lichtenstein or Mexico, or the North friggin’ Pole — anywhere except on the tiny sliver of real estate set aside for a Jewish homeland. To demand as a condition of peace that Israel chop itself up and bestow its backyard on its worst enemy is unfair, unsafe, and untenable.  Suppose a fly is buzzing on a windowsill, and there’s a cobweb in the corner. Suppose the fly surrenders half its rightful window to the spider? How long you think that fly has before he’s an entrée in Charlotte’s web?

Now, America gives a lot of money to Israel and has throughout Obama’s term in office. The President has stood with Israel on other issues, and, in the main, relations remain beautifully strong and important. With Donald Trump coming into the White House, complete with an Orthodox Jewish son-in-law and a converted Jewish daughter, ties between the two nations are likely to get even cuddlier. So it’s just a disappointment that a mere month before he sneaks his last cigarette behind the oval office, Obama chose to snub the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only true friend America has anywhere in that part of the world — all in the name of appearances and the pie-in-the-sky lie of the two-state solution.

You know, the Democrats thought they had a two-state solution for the last election: New York and California. We all saw how that worked out.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By #588 (1/7/2017): MEET THE NEW YEAR, SAME AS THE OLD YEAR

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Here is the 588th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 7, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #143 (Obama & the U.N.), Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (The Times), Saturday Segues (David Bowie, In the News)
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (facebook, bowie, cize, bots, NY Post, YikYak)
00:43:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:14:00 Sponsors
01:17:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (psoas)
01:19:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – David Bowie
01:44:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:05:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (The Times)
02:29:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #143 (Obama & the U.N.)
02:40:00 Friends
02:48:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:18:00 Weather & Thanks
03:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 7, 2017 Playlist: “Cize excerpt” (00:19:00; Shaun T.). “It’s no Game, Part 1” (01:23:30), “Kooks” (01:27:30), “Girl Loves Me” (01:30:30) & “Drive in Saturday” (01:35:00; David Bowie). “Days Like This” (Falsettoland 1991 off-Broadway cast). “Only a Pawn in Their Game” (02:09:30) & “Restless Farewell” ({live} 02:16:30; Bob Dylan). “The Times They are a-Changin'” ({live} 02:13:00; Peter, Paul & Mary). “Torture” (02:49:00; The Cure). “All the Time in Airports” (02:35:00; The Handsome Family). “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly” (02:57:00; Arthur Osmond). “My Mustang Ford” (02:59:00; Chuck Berry). “They Call the Wind Mariah” (03:01:30; The Kingston Trio). “Whale Song” (03:06:00; Pearl Jam). “January Hymn” (03:21:00; The Decemberists).


(pictured: Cize, David Bowie, Dylan’s “The Times They are a-Changin’)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/7/2017): MARCY HEISLER, ZINA GOLDRICH, & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews theatrical composers Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich

Topics include: Dear Edwina, Junie B. Jones, Ever After, Stephen Sondheim.

Segment airs Jan. 7, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com


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