Dave’s Gone By #921 (12/9/2023): CASCADES OF KAH KAH

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Here is the 921st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Dec. 9, 2023.

Featuring: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon, Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Iliff).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Chanukah llama, new toys, skee-ball, pee problem)
01:09:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:50:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (A Field Guide to the Jewish People)
02:15:00 BUNION WATCH
02:26:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:33:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Iliff, CO)
02:42:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By #874 (12/24/2022): BAGEL BOSS

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Here is the 874th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Dec. 24, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: author Debbie Peterson; theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake; actress Vicki Quade.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews former politician Debbie Peterson; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Rifle); Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (w/ Debbie Peterson, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vicki Quade).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (sporadics, Zelenskyy)
00:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Debbie Peterson
01:00:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUIZ (Dec. 24 w/ Debbie Peterson, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake)
02:08:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (tea, rabbit)
02:26:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:52:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Rifle, CO)
02:58:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:04:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Debbie Peterson
clockwise: Dave, Vicki Quade, Debbie Peterson.
Vicki Quade
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By #722 (11/30/2019): FORBERTER OR WORSE

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Here is the 722nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: musician Steve Forbert, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Steve Forbert, Inside Broadway, Dave Says Bye (Herb Simpson & John Simon), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Parker), Today Yesterday (Nov. 30).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (Funukkah, Thanksgiving)
00:31:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (Jean Shepherd & Henry Morgan)
01:02:33 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (01:04:00; The Inheritance))
01:30:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Steve Forbert
02:01:30 TODAY YESTERDAY (Nov. 30)
02:26:30 DAVE GOES AWAY (Austin, TX, finale)
02:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:55:30 DAVE SAYS BYE w/ Joyce (Herbert Simpson & John Simon)
03:20:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Parker)
03:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 30, 2019 Playlist: “Romeo’s Tune” (01:28:30), “The Magic Tree” (01:57:00) & “It Isn’t Gonna Be That Way” (03:26:30).

Steve Forbert
downtown Parker Colorado
The Inheritance
Herbert M. Simpson
John Simon
Joseph Niepce, shutterbug

Dave’s Gone By #676 (12/8/2018): OLA COASTER

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Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Here is the 676th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Dec. 8, 2020. More info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: author Romola Hodas (“The Princess of 42nd Street”), Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Romola Hodas, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, StoryTime (The Ernie & Bert Book), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Crested Butte), Dave’s Big Dictionary (fudge), Saturday Segue (in the news).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (red eyes, toilet mug, menorah lighting)
00:26:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:55:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:29:00 Sponsors
01:31:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Romola Hodas
02:23:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED – Crested Butte
02:27:00 STORYTIME – The Ernie & Bert Book
02:45:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:52:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY – Fudge
03:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 8, 2018 Playlist: “Copenhagen, Act 2, Part 15” (01:27:00; Copenhagen 2000 Broadway cast). “F-Troop Theme” (03:30:00; TV soundtrack). “Fancy Funeral” (03:08:00; Lucinda Williams). “Heather Heather” (03:13:00; Magnetic Fields). “Let’s have a P.C. Holiday” (03:18:00; Dottie Burman). “Homosapien” (03:37:00; Pete Shelley). “I Know it’s Over” (03:51:00; The Smiths)

Dave’s Gone By #631 (12/9/2017): MORE AND MOR

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Here is the 631st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Dec. 9, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com. 

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Brooke Moriber, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-actress Brooke Sunny Moriber. Plus: Inside Broadway, Potato News, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (brook), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Chanukah, In the News).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (w/ Joyce) (graduation n’ grading, seeing scallops)
00:24:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:56:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah
01:17:30 POTATO NEWS
01:23:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:50:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Brooke Moriber
02:33:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (brook)
02:51:30 Friends
03:06:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:47:00 Weather
03:48:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 9, 2017 Playlist: “Eight Days a Week” (00:58:00; The Beatles). “I Have a Little Dreidel” (01:00:30; Barenaked Ladies). “Hey, Hey Helen” (01:01:30; ABBA). “Anal Dreidel” (01:04:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Chanukah (Shake it Off)” (01:06:00; Six13). “Hero is My Middle Name” (01:43:30; SpongeBob SquarePants 2017 Broadway cast w/ Ethan Slater). “Up All Night” (01:47:00), “99 Days of Rain” (02:29:00) & “The Last Goodbye” (03:51:00; Brooke Moriber). “Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)” (02:34:30), “”Froggie Went a-Courtin'” (02:37:00) & “Mozambique” (02:43:00; Bob Dylan). “The New Jerusalem” (03:07:30; Luie Luie). “Russia” (03:11:00; Peter Cook & Dudley Moore). “Mrs. Robinson/The Sound of Silence” (03:13:00; Forbidden Broadway, vol. 3). “Christine Keeler” (03:15:30; Phil Ochs). “Hey Joe” (03:17:00; Johnny Hallyday). “Ventura” (03:20:00; Lucinda Williams).


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Dave’s Gone By Skit: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #142 (12/25/2016): 2016 Farewell

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #142 (12/25/16): 2016 Farewell

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Aired Dec. 24, 2016 on Dave’s Gone By.  (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8jqtTX1GJE)

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 25, 2016.

Events of the past few months notwithstanding, it is not yet the apocalypse. However, we do have a stunning occurrence coming upon us: as we speak, Chanukah and Christmas have arrived at exactly the same time. I have spoken before, some would say at unconscionable length, about not conflating the two holidays. They come from two very different, irreconcilable religions. I don’t begrudge my Christian brethren and sistren, but don’t put a Jewish star on top of a Christmas tree and expect me to feel grateful.

In fact, the only thing I feel gratitude for these days is that 2016 is coming to a merciful end. I don’t need to tell you what a long, meshuggenah trip it’s been. Or maybe I do, in verse form.

`Tis the first night of Chanukah
From Tampa to Tulsa

The candles are burning
Just like my ulcer

The dreidels are spinning
The latkes are frying

The Muslims are killing
The people are dying

The year has been tough
That couldn’t be clearer

So Twenty-Sixteen
Here’s your rear-view mirror

The campaign for president took a dark journey
As Democrat dummies picked Hil and screwed Bernie

Huckabee, Kasich, Rubio, Paul
The louder they got, the harder they’d fall

Jindal and Christie, Carson and Cruz
But then Donald Trump bubbled up from the ooze

He battered Ms. Clinton for being a female
She stumbled and fumbled and mishandled email

Trump lied and insulted and mocked with each Tweet
But then he fell in with the party elite

And lo and behold, as he, alone, expected
The con-artist clown is the guy we elected

If that’s not enough to make us all retch
There’s plenty more reasons about which to kvetch

There’s Brexit and Brussels and murder in Mosul
While Syria looks like a garbage disposal

All across Europe, security sucks
Who’s teaching these young Arab men to drive trucks?

The Istanbul bomber ignited our fears
Another putz shot up a club full of queers

Mosquitoes with zika came in for the kill
While lyin’ Ryan Lochte shamed us in Brazil

Hurricane Matthew brought death and disaster
A wild Turkish cop shot the Russian ambass’dor

An EgyptAir plane crashed into the sea
And North Carolina won’t let trannies pee

All over the world, ISIS steps up attacks
While our police fire at black people’s backs

If that’s not enough to make you all wince
2016 took Bowie and Prince

Gene Wilder, George Martin, and Elie Wiesel
Scalia and Castro — well, they went to hell

So long, Leonard Cohen
Farewell, Harper Lee

Goodbye, Abe Vigoda . . . finally

We lost Garry Shandling, who wasn’t a sick man
We lost Alan Thicke, and Alan Rickman

Muhammad Ali is no longer standing
And hero John Glenn came in for a landing

Merle Haggard, Ed Albee, and Zsa Zsa Gabor
And Fyvush and Blowfly and too many more

But okay, let’s admit the pipeline was stalled
The Cubs and the Indians played ball in the fall

The stock market zoomed to new heights every day
And Hamilton swept all the Tonys away

Manatees moved from endangered to threatened
And a new subway line was built in Manhetten.

So though it was harsh, absurdist, and mean
Shalom to the year 2016

The lesson it taught us with every new curse:
As bad as things are, they’re bound to get worse.

Happy American Rosh Hashanah everyone! See you in 5778!
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Shanah Tolerable.

(c) 2016 TotalTheater. All rights reserved.

Dave’s Gone By #586 (12/24/2016): DRY AND READY

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Here is the 586th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 24, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (2016 Farewell), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Chanukah & Christmas, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (noise machines, latkes, The Star Wars Holiday Special, kwanzaa, psoas therapy, not-so-crappy year, Carrie Fisher)
00:59:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:27:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (UNC marching band)
01:35:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News)
02:01:30 Sponsors
02:05:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:30:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later
02:50:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #142 (2016 Farewell)
02:59:00 Friends
03:08:30 Sponsors
03:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah and Christmas
03:32:00 Weather
03:34:00 DAVE GOES OUT

“Good Night but not Goodbye” (00:29:00; “The Star Wars Holiday Special” w/ Bea Arthur). “UNC Fight Song” (01:28:00; University of Northern Colorado marching band).”Fireworks” (01:37:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Broadway cast). “Bad Ambassador” (01:40:00; The Divine Comedy). “Berlin: Black Hole with Taxis” (01:44:00; Passing Strange 2008 Broadway cast). “Evacuation” (01:44:30; Pearl Jam). “Nuclear” (01:47:30; Ryan Adams). “You’re Timeless to Me” (02:26:00; Hairspray 2002 Broadway cast w/ Harvey Fierstein & Dick Latessa). “Once Upon a Time” (02:35:30), “Dear Landlord” (02:39:30) & “O Come All Ye Faithful” (02:42:30; Bob Dylan). “Anal Dreidel” (03:11:30), “The Twelve Complaints of Christmas” (03:18:00) & “Maoz Tzuris” (03:27:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon) “Santa Quits” (03:13:30) & “Santasia” (03:23:00; Dave Lefkowitz). “There’s no Place Like Home for the Holidays” (03:40:30; Leon Redbone).



Dave’s Gone By #536 (12/12/2015): FRANKLY

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Here is the 536th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 12, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with old friend Jeff Goodman; Inside Broadway; Rabbi Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Hanukkah Haiku); Saturday Segues (Frank Sinatra, vacation); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: former guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (so long semester, snu, temps, Eggley Bagelface, The Soup, Mama Doni, Hawaii Kai, Kaleidoscope, horse head)
01:12:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:47:30 GUEST: Jeff Goodman
02:36:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Sinatra
02:59:00 Sponsors
03:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:23:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows)
03:40:30 Sponsors
03:45:30 RABBINICAL REFLECTION – Hanukkah Haiku
03:51:00 Friends
03:46:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Vacation
04:16:30 Weather & Thanks
04:20:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 12, 2015 Playlist: “Chanukah Fever” (Mama Doni). “Chanukah” (01:08:30; Six13). “The Coffee Song” (02:39:00). “It’s the Same Old Dream” (02:42:00), “It Never Entered My Mind” (02:44:30), “You Make Me Feel So Young” ({live}; 02:47:30), “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (02:51:00) & “I Have Dreamed” (04:22:00; Frank Sinatra). “A Brand New Day” (03:19:30; The Wiz 2015 TV cast). “That Lucky Old Sun” (03:27:30), “What’ll I Do” (03:31:00) & “Stay With Me” (03:34:30; Bob Dylan). “The Draidel Song” (03:50:00; Mickey Katz). “Your Mind is on Vacation” (03:57:30; Van Morrison). “Take a Musical Break” (04:00:30; Dottie Burman). “Albuquerque” (04:02:30; Neil Young). “Take Me Away” (04:06:30; Oasis). “Homeward Bound” (04:11:00; Simon & Garfunkel).

Jeff Goodman
Eggly Bagelface
Frank Sinatra

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #132 (12/12/2015): HANUKKAH HAIKU

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Rabbinical Reflection #132: Hanukkah Haiku

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Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 12, 2015.

With everything going on in the world – the craziness, the killing, chaos in the GOP, E. coli at Chipotle—which is really confusing because how the hell are you supposed to differentiate noro-virus diarrhea from regular Chipotle diarrhea? Such distinctions are lost on me. But what we must not lose this mid-December is the arrival of Chanukah. Eight days of happiness and food and gratitude, and a reminder that every Jewish holiday isn’t about fasting and wishing you could afford maid service.

Sometimes we win. Sometimes the enemy who is trying to destroy us, or weaken our faith, gets a shank in the ribs. We did it to Egypt in a thousand BC, we did it to the Greeks—who bent over and took it—and one day we’ll do it to ISIS and ISIL and Al Qaeda and Boko Haram, and maybe the first guy who said, “Hey, it’s Halloween soon. Let’s put pumpkin spice in everything. Lattes, pancakes, donuts, beef wellington—doesn’t matter. Pumpkin spice is the new oxygen.” We need to get him.

Anyhoo, Chanukah commemorates a small band of Jews who would not succumb to the hellish Hellenic hellions who tried to hinder our Hebrew historicity. The second temple in Jerusalem was recaptured from the Greeks, re-consecrated as a synagogue, and retrofitted for Wi-Fi. And when the Hashmonaim were cleaning the temple, and making it minty fresh, they had only a drop of oil with which to light the holy candelabra, the menorah. And yet that oil burned day and night for eight straight days. The electric bill must have been horrendous, but the point is: miracles do happen. They happened then, they happen now. It’s a miracle that a computer can digitally print working human organs. It’s a miracle you can stare at a hole in the ground in a city block, come back six months later, and it’s an office building. It’s an astounding miracle that someone like me is on the radio.

So let us delight with our family, our friends—all the people we barely tolerate for fear of loneliness—and cheer the miraculous holiday of Chanukah. To do so, I have written a few short poems celebrating the Festival of Lights in haiku form. Haiku is a Japanese poetry style that is perfectly marvelous because it’s so short. As soon as you get started, you’re finished. Like a teenage boy on prom night. Your entire thought process must fit into a mere 17 syllables, which proves the Japanese not only invented haiku but twitter.

I pray that you enjoy these holiday poems from me, Rabbi Sol. Chanukah Chaikus:

Eight candles burning
On my shaky menorah.
Shit! Call 9-1-1.

Headline: Polish Jews
Suffer Third-Degree Burns When
Bobbing for Latkes

Judah Maccabee
And sons beat the Greek army
Yay for terrorists!

Happy holidays, my friends, and may all your dreidel spins come up hay. I’d say gimel, but why press your luck? This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.

(c) 2015 TotalTheater. All rights reserved.

Dave’s Gone By #489 (12/20/2014): ELLI’S ISLAND

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Here is the 489th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 20, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Eliezer Mayer (aka Elli the King of Broadway). Plus: Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Chanukah story (“Little Yomo and the Corned Beef Sandwich”), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Tree Hall), Dylan – Sooner & Later (winterlude), Saturday Segues (Frank Zappa, John Fry) and the Greeley Crime Beat

Guests: actor Elli the King of Broadway and Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Jury Duty)
00:37:30 GREELEY CRIME BEAT
01:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – John Fry
01:37:30 Sponsors
01:42:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:04:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Elli the King of Broadway
03:02:30 Friends
03:08:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #17 – Tree Hall
03:12:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Winterlude)
03:30:00 Weather
03:33:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Zappa
03:58:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #113 – Little Yomo and the Corned Beef Sandwich
04:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 20, 2014 Playlist: “The Ballad of El Goodo” (01:16:00) & “September Girls” (01:31:30; Big Star). “Get Up” (01:20:00; R.E.M.). “Little Ghost” (01:22:30; The White Stripes). “Call it a Day” (01:25:00; The Raconteurs). “Alex Chilton” (01:28:30; The Replacements). “Lament” (02:02:00; Into the Woods, 1987 Broadway cast w/ Bernadette Peters). “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica” (02:58:30; Tom Lehrer). “Kingsport Town” (03:13:00), “Winter Wonderland” (03:16:30), “Nettie Moore” (03:18:30) & “Winterlude” (03:25:00; Bob Dylan). “For the Young Sophisticate” (03:37:30), “Lonesome Cowboy Burt” (03:41:00), “Pygmy Twilight” (03:44:30), “The Idiot Bastard Son” ({live} 03:47:30), “I’m Not Satisfied” (03:50:00; Frank Zappa). “Chanukah (Shake it Off)” (04:17:30; Six13). “Winter Song” (04:23:00; Harry Chapin).

Elli the King of Broadway
jury duty
John Fry
Frank Zappa
corned beef sandwich


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