Here is the 542nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 23, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave celebrates his 52nd birthday with friends & family. Plus: Inside Broadway, Dylan – Sooner & Later (birthday), Saturday Segues (passings, recent favorites), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (nightclub)
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: Dave’s wife Joyce, writer Lisa Arata, broadcaster Joe Salzone, Dave’s mom & dad, Dave’s aunt Esther Brower, Dave’s mother in law, Rosemary, friends Wendy Highby & Fred Cleaver, and Dave’s oldest friend Ozer Teitelbaum
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:02:00 GUEST: Esther Brower 00:13:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (Dave’s birthday, Joyce’s camera) 00:26:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:40:30 GUEST: Lisa Arata 00:53:00 MORE GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:25:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Nightclub 01:29:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Passings 01:53:30 GUEST: Mama Weil 01:55:00 Sponsors 02:00:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:10:00 GUESTS: Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby 02:42:00 GUEST: Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz 02:49:00 MORE INSIDE BROADWAY 03:18:00 GUEST: Joe Salzone 04:01:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (birthday) 04:17:00 GUEST: Ozer Teitelbaum 04:38:00 Friends 04:45:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Recent Favorites 05:06:30 Weather 05:09:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 23, 2016 playlist: “Ice Cream Man” (01:10:30; Jonathan Richman). “Arnie, Ice Cream Sergeant” (01:14:30; Billy Childish & Sexton Ming). “Shitting On the Dock of the Bay” (01:35:00). “Baby, Let Me Do it to You” (01:40:30) & “The Sperm is Gone” (01:45:00; Blowfly). “Take it Easy” (01:37:00; The Eagles). “All the Young Dudes” (01:41:30; Mott the Hoople). “Some People” (03:15:00; Gypsy 1993 TV cast). “Farewell Angelina” (04:02:00; New Riders of the Purple Sage). “Not Dark Yet” (04:05:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “My Back Pages” ({live}; 04:08:00; Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Neil Young, George Harrison etc.). “Airborne” (04:46:00; Wussy). “What’s in it For” (04:49:30; Avi Buffalo). “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” (04:55:00; Tame Impala). “Plundered My Soul” (04:58:00; Rolling Stones).
Topics include: writing. Segment aired Jan. 23, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program (birthday special) hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews radio broadcaster Joe Salzone
Topics include: WGBB, aging, Long Island, politics, depression, radio. Segment scheduled to air Jan. 23, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of January 17th, 2016.
It is time to say a sad Shalom to David Bowie, the super-talented singer, songwriter, rock star, and icon who died of liver cancer on January 10th. Most musicians find one persona in a career and stick with it: Joe Smith sings country, Edna Whatever does dance pop, Mordecai Ben David does . . . whatever he does. But David Bowie changed his look, his style, his sound more times than I change my underwear. Well, maybe that’s not the best example, since I’m kind of lazy in the laundry department, but you know what I mean. He started with twee British pop tunes like “Come and Buy My Toys” and “Love You `Til Tuesday,” songs that weren’t meant to last even until Monday. But they pointed the way towards freaky folk and post-Apollo weirdness and “Space Oddity,” the story of a man who gets completely lost in space and never comes back—like Gary Busey.
Wearing dresses and cavorting in transgender weirdness, Bowie pushed the conventions of behavior and attire—which could only mean one thing: he was destined for rock and roll. He created Ziggy Stardust, a rock idol with a comet-like trajectory and really, really tight pants. Suddenly, just going onstage and playing songs wasn’t enough anymore. You needed costumes and makeup and pyrotechnics and huge hydraulics. Long before Grizabella rose to cat heaven and Bono started singing from a claw, Bowie was ascending on a cherry picker and cavorting with glass spiders.
And when all that got too weird and dangerous, Bowie changed again. He became a Thin White Duke, white because he was basically covered head to foot with cocaine powder. But the music remained: “Rebel Rebel,” “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” “Young Americans”—soul music for white people. And believe me, we needed it, because up till then, the closest we got to soul music was Donovan. But even Bowie’s “plastic soul” was the real thing—so real that James Brown stole Carlos Alomar’s riff from “Fame”—not the other way around. They even asked James Brown about it, and he said, quote, “(series of grunts).”
But seriously, Bowie eased off the drugs just a little to save his sanity and then moved on to yet another incarnation: krautrock. He and Brian Eno found themselves in Berlin mixing electronic music and hard rock in a delightful way that could only come out of a country that murdered 40 million people. Bowie would never reach those musical peaks again, and indeed, his most commercially popular years were filled with dance-club pop and sometimes desperate attempts to stay trendy by incorporating that 1980s sound that we all loved so much. (Insert sarcastic facial expression here.)
Did he stay there, though? Of course not. He was David Bowie. He returned to arty, experimental, and often difficult music and stayed there for another two decades. He may not have gotten on the radio with songs like “Slip Away,” “Never Get Old,” and “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon,” but anyone with iTunes and ears can find them and hear their worth.
After that, for awhile, David Bowie laid low (no album-title pun intended). He pushed his back catalogue and old concerts and didn’t tour because of a heart condition. But then two years ago, he jumped once more into creativity, secretly recording new tracks with old colleagues. He put out “The Next Day” in 2013, then started working on an off-Broadway show, then released another album on his birthday this year. We all now know the reason for this 18-month burst of activity, and it may be the biggest Bowie takeaway of all. He knew his days were literally numbered. He knew the liver he was punishing 40 years ago was coming back like Rocky for a knockout. He knew he had so much more to do and so little time. So he did it. He pushed himself because any day, he would fall to earth.
Most of us, thank God, don’t have such a diagnosis hanging over our heads. Except we do. Who knows when HaShem will send a drunk driver careening towards us on the highway? Or a Muslim with a backpack? Or a mutated cell that will turn prostates into pancakes and ovaries into rotten eggs? Every day we’re still alive is a challenge to make that day count. To bring something new into the world that wasn’t there the day before.
Maybe it’s a poem. A painting. A table. A scarf. A youtube video of your pet doing something adorable. Okay, maybe the world doesn’t need more of that, but the impetus to strike while our irons are still hot is, perhaps, the greatest function of our human DNA.
Go figure it took a space alien, diamond dog, and spider from Mars to remind us. Thank you, David Bowie. You were a musical hero for a lot more than just one day.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Mike Agranoff
Topics include: folk music, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, concertina, The Sandman.
Segment scheduled to air Jan. 16, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Please Note: Segments extracted from “Dave’s Gone By” may have music and other elements removed for timing and media re-posting considerations. For the full interview with all elements, please visit the audio of the complete original broadcast. All content (c)2016 TotalTheater Productions.
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Here is the 541st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 16, 2016. Info: Dave’s Gone By.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Mike Agranoff; Rabbi Sol reflects on David Bowie; Saturday Segue (Bowie); Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: musician Mike Agranoff, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (busy Joyce, Linked In, lotta death) 00:25:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:55:00 Sponsors 00:59:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – David Bowie 01:37:30 Sponsors 01:41:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:13:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #135 – David Bowie 02:19:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interview Mike Agranoff 03:44:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Planet Tracks) 04:04:00 Weather 04:07:00 Friends 04:16:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 16, 2016 Playlist: “When I Live My Dream” (01:13:00), “Sorrow” (01:16:30), “Dollar Days” (01:23:00), “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon” (01:28:00), “Lazarus” (02:08:30) & “`Heroes'” (04:23:00; David Bowie). “Tonight” (01:19:30; Iggy Pop). “The Modern Folk Musician” (02:19:00), “New York Central Yard” (02:30:30), “Road Jigs” (02:39:30), “Diana Hanson/Parting Glass” (02:43:30), “The Highway” ({live by phone; 02:48:30), “Urge for Going” (03:02:30), “The Ballad of the Sandman” (03:21:30), “Nova Scotia” (03:34:00) & “The Princess and the Frog” ({live by phone} 03:38:00; Mike Agranoff). “Something There is About You” (03:49:00), “You’re a Big Girl Now” (03:53:00) & “Going Going Gone” (03:58:00; Bob Dylan).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews his mom and dad, Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz
Topics include: birthdays. Segment aired Jan. 23, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program (birthday special) hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021.
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The 53rd Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Jan. 9, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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53. Tired of killing people for a living, the Angel of Death applies for work at a furniture store in New Jersey. The manager is skeptical, but he’s also short staffed, so he hires Death to sell couches and love seats.
Turns out, the Grim Reaper makes an excellent salesman. He exceeds all forecasts and even makes employee of the week three times in the first month. Unfortunately, every other day, the Angel of Death forgets himself and exterminates a customer.
Finally, the manager calls Death into his office and says, “You’re fired. You’re a good guy, but funeral expenses are destroying our profits.”
Death clears out his desk and leaves. But later that day, the CEO from corporate stops in and says, “Hey, where’s that new employee who’s been selling all those couches? I wanna meet him.”
“Too late,” says the manager. “I had to let him go. He was smothering too many customers with seat cushions.”
The CEO says, “Harvey, I’m surprised at you. You’re great with customer problems. Why not this?”
“Problems I can manage,” says Harvey. “But I just can’t deal with the Reaper-cushions.”
Here is the 540th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 9, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Greeley Times, Saturday Segues (Passings, Jimmy Page), Inside Broadway, Wretched Pun of Destiny (Death), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (I Can’t Even) & more!
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (winter, El Chapo, Kermit, Dylan the Perfectionist, Dave the actor, KUNC, dancin’) 00:53:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:16:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (muppets) 01:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jimmy Page 01:39:00 Sponsors 01:47:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN (manatees) 01:58:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:34:00 Sponsors 02:38:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (I Can’t Even) 03:08:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #53 – Death 03:10:00 Friends 03:18:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Passings 03:42:30 Weather 03:45:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 9, 2016 Playlist: “The Wanton Song” (01:24:30) & “Ozone Baby” (01:33:00; Led Zeppelin). “Don’t You Dig This Kind of Beat” (01:28:30; Chris Ravel & The Ravers). “I’m Not Saying” (01:30:30; Nico). “Lullaby from Baby to Baby” (02:26:30) & “We are not Strangers” (03:51:30; Runaways 1979 Broadway cast). “She’s Your Lover Now (Take 6) (02:45:00), “Most of the Time” ({acoustic}; 02:50:00) & “Idiot Wind” (02:53:30; Bob Dylan). “To Love Somebody” (03:21:00; Bee Gees). “Arturo, The Maitre d'” (03:24:00; Pat Harrington). “Compromise” (03:27:00; Elizabeth Swados). “Outside Now” (03:28:30; Pierre Boulez). “Suicide is Painless” (03:32:30; Manic Street Preachers).