Dave’s Gone By #743 (4/25/2020): LEWNY TUNES

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Here is the 743rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday, April 25, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: musician Jeffrey Lewis, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-songwriter Jeffrey Lewis and recites Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cotopaxi); Wretched Pun of Destiny (eggs); Today Yesterday (April 25).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (buying oil, Sonnet-Thon
00:16:30 SKIT: Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30 w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:22:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (“working” during covid)
00:47:00 TODAY YESTERDAY (April 25)
01:14:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jeffrey Lewis
02:08:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:39:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Cotopaxi)
02:46:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:58:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:10:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY (eggs)
03:12:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 25, 2020 Playlist: “Keeping Chill in the East Vill” (01:13:00) & “Bugs and Flowers” (02:03:00; Jeffrey Lewis). “Not a Day Goes By” (02:36:30; Bernadette Peters).

Jeffrey Lewis
Cotopaxi, CO
egg farm

Dave’s Gone By Skit (4/25/2020): RABBI SOL SOLOMON READS SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET #30

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Here is the Dave’s Gone By Skit, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30, which aired on Dave’s Gone By April 25, 2020.

The event occurred April 23, 2020 as part of Irondale Ensemble’s virtual Sonnet Marathon to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday.

Note: The other guy is Irondale co-founder Terry Greiss.

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For those playing along, here’s Sonnet #30:

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,

For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,

And weep afresh love’s long-since-cancell’d woe,

And moan th’ expense of many a vanish’d sight;

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,

And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er

The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,

Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.

Dave’s Gone By Skit: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #161 (4/25/2020): RABBI SOL SOLOMON READS SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET #30

Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #161 (4/25/20): RABBI SOL SOLOMON READS SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET #30 

(Rabbi Sol Solomon’s 161st Rabbinical Reflection debuted live as part of Irondale Ensemble theater company’s virtual Sonnet Marathon on April 23, 2020 and then aired Saturday, April 25, 2020 as part of Dave’s Gone By: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_U35BeLXRg&t=4s)

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, founder and spiritual leader of Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. And I am delighted to be taking part in Irondale Ensemble’s Sonnet Marathon to honor April 23rd, the day William Shakespeare was born. It’s also the day he died, but why be negative? 

And besides, who needs sanitizer, when we can all be Sonnetized? 

I have chosen to read Sonnet number 30; in Roman numerals that’s XXX, in Hebrew: Yud Yud Yud. 


“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,

For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,

And weep afresh love’s long-since-cancell’d woe,

And moan th’ expense of many a vanish’d sight;

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,

And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er

The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,

Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.”

Now, what do we learn from this Sonnet? First: it’s ideal for Jews: it’s depressing, it’s about regret, and how tempting it is to rehash miseries over and over. Sorry—o’er and o’er.

The schmendrick in this poem sighs over spilled milk, cries over dead people, grieves over old pussy, and then complains that he’s wasting precious time being unhappy. Freud would have a field day with this putz.

But of course, Shakespeare being universal, we are the putz. Even before the pandemic, who among us hasn’t wasted decades on worry, fear, disappointment, inertia, and that most Jewish of bugaboos, guilt?

The silver lining is when you have someone who brightens your day: a friend, a pet, an anatomically correct, inflatable rubber Gal Gadot doll. Even if your loved one is merely a memory, it can erase all the tzuris of what Rabbi Tom Lehrer once called, “your drab, wretched lives.”

And so my dear friends, in this time of woes and grievances, where we can’t dab our drowning eyes because there’s no goddamn toilet paper, remember the good times and the good people of those times.

This is Rabbi Sol Solomon wishing you sweet thoughts and ended sorrows. And Charmin! Two ply!

Shalom!

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Dave’s Gone By #709 (8/24/2019): PEARE PRESSURE

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Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: author Iris Dorbian, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Iris Dorbian, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Today Yesterday (Aug. 17), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Manassa), StoryTime (Why Fish Fart, pt. 6).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (podcast explosion, Splash Magazine story, Sweet 16)
00:38:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Manassa)
00:42:00 TODAY YESTERDAY – Aug. 17
01:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Iris Dorbian
01:32:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (Midsummer – A Banquet (01:38:00) & Pretty Woman (01:58:00)).
02:13:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:31:00 STORYTIME (Why Fish Fart, pt. 6)
02:49:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 17, 2019 Playlist: “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (00:42:00). “You and I” (02:09:00; Pretty Woman 2019 Broadway cast).

Iris Dorbian
Sentenced to Shakespeare by Iris Dorbian
Manassa, CO
Midsummer A Banquet photographed at Cafe Fae in Manhattan. CREDIT: Chad Batka
Pretty Woman

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/17/2019): IRIS DORBIAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author IRIS DORBIAN

Topics include: New Jersey, Shakespeare, Sentenced to Shakespeare, theater, drama, business, WWII.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/11/2018): ETHAN McSWEENY & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with theatrical director Ethan McSweeny

Topics include: American Shakespeare Conservatory, Staunton, Virginia, William Shakespeare, theater, Columbia University.
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2013): JAMES SHAPIRO

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro

Topics include: Columbia University, William Shakespeare, King James I.

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Dave’s Gone By #427 (6/15/2013): SHAKESPIRO

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Here is the 427th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 15, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring Dave’s chat with Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Joyce, McCartney/Wilson), Rabbi Sol Solomon on Michael Douglas, and Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Shakespeare – he’s in the alley)

Guests: Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro, Dave’s wife, Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:14:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Joyce’s Birthday
01:03:00 Sponsors
01:13:30 GUEST: James Shapiro
02:04:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
00:26:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Shakespeare – he’s in the alley)
03:06:00 Sponsors
03:11:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #70: Michael Douglas
03:16:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – McCartney/Wilson
03:52:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 15, 2013 Playlist: Jai Sita Ram (00:14:00) & “Shedding Skin (Beloved Friend)” (00:20:30; MC Yogi). “When I was Your Man” (00:17:00; Bruno Mars). “Teachers” (00:23:00; Leonard Cohen). “Academia” (00:26:00; Sia). “The Message” (00:29:00; Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five). “Hallelujah” (00:36:00; Rufus Wainwright). “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (00:41:30), “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” ({“Hard Rain” live version}; 02:37:00), “Po’ Boy” (02:43:00), “Highway 61 Revisited” ({alternate take} 02:46:00), “Floater” (02:49:30), “Desolation Row” ({“MTV Unplugged” live version; 02:54:30; Bob Dylan). “Heroes” ({“Stage” live version} 01:06:30; David Bowie). “Talk to Me” (01:12:30; Joni Mitchell). “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (Kiss Me Kate 1948 Broadway cast; 02:02:00). “They Were You” (The Fantasticks, 1960 off-Broadway cast w/ Kenneth Nelson & Rita Gardner; 02:26:30). “Cuckoo Cuckoo” (03:21:30), “You Still Believe in Me” (03:25:30), “In My Room” (03:31:00), “Heroes and Villains” (03:35:00) & “I’m Waiting for the Day” (03:41:00; The Beach Boys). “I’ll Follow the Sun” (03:23:30), “For No One” (03:33:00) & “Things We Said Today” (03:38:30; The Beatles). “Man We was Lonely” (03:28:00) & “Monkberry Moon Delight” (03:44:00; Paul McCartney). “Never You Change” (03:56:00; Toots & the Maytals).

James Shapiro
Brian Wilson (photo/Reed Saxon)
Paul McCartney
Michael Douglas in Wall Street
Willie the Shake

Dave’s Gone By #402 (12/1/2012): JOEY DIVISION

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Here is the 402nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 1, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with Steel Magnolias author Robert Harling, and Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews radio legend Joey Reynolds. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner and Later (in search of…), and the News Gone By.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: radio personality Joey Reynolds, playwright Robert Harling

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – December
00:28:30 Sponsors
00:32:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Joey Reynolds
01:27:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:28:00) & Queen Lear (01:33:30))
01:49:00 GUEST: Robert Harling
02:34:30 NEWS GONE BY
02:41:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in search of…)
02:47:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 1, 2012 Playlist: “December” (00:12:00; Norah Jones). “Flowers in December” (00:15:00; Mazzy Star). “September Gurls” (00:19:30; Big Star). “A Long December” (00:22:30; Counting Crows). “Joey Reynolds Theme (00:31:00; The Four Seasons). “Rats in My Room” (01:25:00; Joey Reynolds & Danny Neaverth). “Sugar Magnolia” (02:33:30; Grateful Dead). “Oxford Town” (02:42:00), “Only a Pawn in their Game (02:43:30), “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” (02:48:00; Bob Dylan).

Joey Reynolds
Robert Harling
Lucy Peacock as Queen Lear

Dave’s Gone By #253 (12/30/07): THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE

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Here is the 253rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 30, 2007.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest co-host: Jeff Goodman
Call-in Guest: #1 Fan Pam

Featuring: Dave goes over the best and worst of 2007; a call from #1 Fan Pam; Inside Broadway; Jeff Goodman’s visit to Thailand.

00:00:01  Pre-show excerpts w/ Number 2 Fan, Pam
00:14:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:24:00  Jeff in Thailand
00:30:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – Cymbeline, Best and Worst Theater of 2007
00:55:00  DAVE REMEMBERS 2007
01:10:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 30, 2007 Playlist: “Auld Lang Zion” (Rabbi Sol Solomon).

John Cullum in Cymbeline
#1 Fan Pam
Jeff Goodman
Rabbi Sol Solomon

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