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Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/20/2024): BOB SPIOTTO & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer-performer BOB SPIOTTO

Topics include: Joel Grey, Eddie Cantor, theater, Hofstra, Friar’s Club, Country Pointe, directing

Segment aired April 20, 2024 as part of the 940th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #940 (4/20/2024): I SPI

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Here is the 940th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 20, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-actor Bob Spiotto and offers a Rabbinical Reflection on Passover; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Aberdeen); Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (gingerly).

Guest: writer-performer Bob Spiotto

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: fake paintings, quid pro quo
00:39:30 GREELEY TIMES
01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bob Spiotto
02:08:00 BUNION WATCH
02:11:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce: social media, The Heidi Joel
02:32:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #183: Passover 2024
02:42:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: gingerly
02:52:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:02:00 COLORADO THE LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Aberdeen, CO
03:08:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2023): STEPHEN FISCH

Dave Lefkowitz chats with old friend, STEPHEN FISCH

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Topics include: New Year, Billy Joel, concerts

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2023 as part of the annual Daverhood New Year special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/19): STEPHEN FISCH

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with his friend, STEPHEN FISCH

Topics include: New Year’s, concerts, The Rolling Stones, pets.

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #508 (5/9/2015): WINNING STREAK

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Here is the 508th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 9, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Ray Stevens. Plus: Inside Broadway, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (weightlifter), Saturday Segues (Billy Joel, In the News), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Dylan – Sooner & Later (Ray songs).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer-songwriter Ray Stevens, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (indoor graduation, streaking, The Miracle of Long Johns)
00:31:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:00:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Etan Patz, rain)
01:06:30 Weather
01:09:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Billy Joel
01:29:00 Sponsors
01:36:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:36:00) & review (The Audience (01:51:00))
02:13:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ray Stevens
03:10:30 Technical Difficulties
03:14:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #35 – Weightlifter
03:16:30 Friends
03:27:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Ray Words
03:55:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:16:00 Thanks
04:18:30 DAVE GOES OUT – Vin Scelsa

May 9, 2015 Playlist: “Don’t Ask Me Why” (01:15:00), “Everybody Loves You Now” (01:18:00), “Surprise” (01:21:00) & “And So it Goes” (01:24:00; Billy Joel). (“Now” 02:08:30; Tami Muti & Kelli Barrett). “Turn Your Radio On” (02:13:00), “Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills (02:24:00), “Misty” (02:30:00), “Gitarzan” (02:36:30), “Everything is Beautiful” (02:42:30), “Taylor Swift is Stalkin’ Me” (02:50:30), “Nashville” (02:59:00) & “The Streak” (03:03:30; Ray Stevens). “Dreamin’ of You” (03:28:30), “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” ({1962 Gaslight version}; 03:34:30) & “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” (03:41:00; Bob Dylan). “This Tornado Loves You” (Neko Case; 03:56:30). “Pass the Football” (Wonderful Town, 1953 Broadway cast; 03:59:30). “The Spy (Version 2)” (The Doors; 04:02:30). “A Well-Respected Man” (The Kinks). “Goodnight Ladies” (04:26:00; Lou Reed).

Dave’s Gone By #418 (4/6/2013): MEAT AND GREET

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Here is the 418th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 6, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Eric Mittenthal, Vice President of Public Affairs of the American Meat Institute. Plus: Rabbi Sol on the passing of Roger Ebert, Saturday Segues (Phil Ramone, Tom Lehrer & Tiny Tim) and Inside Broadway.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: meat promoter Eric Mittenthal

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:12:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Phil Ramone
01:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:02:00) & Indianapolis (01:11:00): The Whipping Man (01:12:00), Indy Fringe (01:17:00), Twelfth Night (01:19:30), Michael Feinstein & Barbara Cook (01:23:00))
01:32:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon & Eric Mittenthal
02:01:30 Sponsors
02:08:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (meat)
02:34:00 Friends
02:38:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #62 (Roger Ebert)
02:42:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tiny Tim & Tom Lehrer
02:58:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 6, 2013 Playlist: “The Happy Hot Dog Man” (00:04:30; TV ad). “Minstrel of the Dawn” (00:14:00; Gordon Lightfoot). “You Don’t Own Me” (00:17:30; Lesley Gore ). “Poetry Man” (Phoebe Snow; 00:20:00). “Rolling Home” (00:24:30; Peter, Paul & Mary). “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” (00:28:00) & “Questions for the Angels” (00:48:30; Paul Simon). “Only the Good Die Young” (00:31:00; Billy Joel). “Rag Mama Rag” ({live version}; 00:35:00; The Band). “Half as Big as Life” (00:39:00; Promises, Promises, 1968 Broadway cast w/ Jerry Orbach). “Once Before I Go” (00:41:00; The Boy from Oz; 2003 Broadway cast w/ Hugh Jackman). “Gloomy Sunday” (00:44:30; Sinead O’Connor). “All That Meat and No Potatoes” (01:30:00; Fats Waller). “Meat City” (01:59:00; John Lennon). “Honest with Me” (02:08:30), “Quinn the Eskimo” (02:14:00). “Disease of Conceit” (02:17:00), “Tough Mama” (02:20:00), “Diamond Joe” (02:24:30), “On the Road Again” (02:28:00) & “Yea, Heavy and a Bottle of Bread” (02:30:30; Bob Dylan). “Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight” (02:42:30), “Mickey the Monkey” (02:47:30) & “Santa Claus has Got the AIDS this Year” (02:51:00; Tiny Tim). “My Home Town” (02:45:00), “Silent E” (02:49:30), “The Vatican Rag” (02:54:00) & “When You are Old and Grey” (02:59:00; Tom Lehrer).

Dave’s Gone By #5 (11/3/2002): TAKE FIVE

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Here is the 5th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on WGBB-AM radio Nov. 3, 2002.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Comedy and culture on Dave’s fifth episode, including the satirical News Gone By, Dave’s Gone Cultural about the theater, the Giving Chimp skit, the Peter Byfield political skit, the World Weird Web, and Inside Broadwway.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:02:30 NEWS GONE BY w/ Peter Byfield skit (00:06:00)
00:20:00 SKIT: The Giving Chimp
00:27:30 DAVE’S GONE CULTURAL – theater reviews (00:28:00; Amour / 00:29:30; Flower Drum Song / 00:36:00; Movin’ Out)
00:44:00 WORLD WEIRD WEB: bushorchip, Duke & LaRouche
00:53:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 3, 2002 Playlist: “You Are Beautiful,” (00:32:00; Flower Drum Song1958 Bway cast); “Summer Highland Falls” (00:39:00; Billy Joel). “In a Silent Way” (Miles Davis), “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” (00:52:30; XTC).