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Here is the 624th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio and Facebook, Oct. 14, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
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Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: actors Jay O. Sanders and Robert Galinsky, Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Robert Galinsky and Jay O. Sanders. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Bob Mould, in the news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (witmarkable morning).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Facebook streaming!, Twist n’ Sh*t, rape) 00:43:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:06:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Bob Mould 01:30:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:05:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Robert Galinsky & Jay O. Sanders 02:43:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (witmarkable morning) 03:16:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:48:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 14, 2017 Playlist: “Crystal” (01:10:00) & “Divide and Conquer” (01:22:30; Husker Du). “See a Little Light” (01:13:30; Bob Mould). “Hoover Dam” (01:17:00; Sugar). “Land of Hope and Dreams” (01:58:00; Bruce Springsteen). “Ain’t Gonna Grieve” (02:49:00), “One More Weekend” (02:50:30), “Ballad for a Friend” (02:53:30) & “Time Passes Slowly” {version 2} (02:56:00; Bob Dylan). “Talk to Me of Mendocino” (03:18:30; Norah Jones). “Rape Me” {Demo} (03:22:00; Nirvana). “United Nations” (03:25:00; Allen & Rossi). “No Deal” (03:26:00; Townes Van Zandt). “High Risk Insurance” (03:29:00; Ramones). “I Say Hello/By Myself” (03:52:30; Steve Ross).
Here is the 623rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 7, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Inside Broadway, My Sick Mind (Las Vegas), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Tom Petty, John-John, in the news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (teller of tales).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (15 years, Jackie Mason, Tom Paxton at Swallow Hill) 00:40:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom Petty 01:27:30 Sponsors 01:30:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (teller of tales) 01:49:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:20:30 MY SICK MIND – Las Vegas 02:24:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – John-John 02:50:30 Friends 02:58:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:47:30 Weather 03:49:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 7, 2017 Playlist: “Chariots of Fire Theme” (00:45:00; Vangelis). “Breakdown” (00:58:30), “The Last DJ” (01:13:30), “Don’t Do Me Like That” (01:17:00), “Into the Great Wide Open” (01:20:00), “Angel Dream (No. 2)” (01:23:30) & “Wake Up Time” (03:51:30; Tom Petty). “The Lonesome River” (01:32:00), “Mississippi (version 1)” (01:35:00) & “Can’t Escape from You” (01:41:00; Bob Dylan). “I Could have Danced All Night” (02:11:00; My Fair Lady 1959 London cast w/Julie Andrews). “Every Little Thing” (02:32:00; The Beatles). “Yes, They Oughta Name a Drink After You” (02:34:00) & “The Oldest Baby in the World” (02:39:30; John Prine). “Cleanup Time” (02:36:00; John Lennon). “In My Life” (02:42:30; Johnny Cash). “I was Born in Puerto Rico” (02:59:00; Paul Simon). “Hurricane” (Hamilton 2015 off-Broadway cast w/ Lin-Manuel Miranda). “Harvey, the Wonder Hamster” (03:06:30; Weird Al Yankovic). “Let’s Make a Deal” (03:07:00; George Carlin). “Midgets” (03:09:00; Ralphie May). “Life without Parole” (03:13:00; Gettin’ the Band Back Together 2017 studio cast). “Las Vegas” (03:17:00; Wussy).
(Pictured: Dave, Tom Petty, John Prine, John Lennon, Bob Dylan’s Tell-Tale Signs, Las Vegas)
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Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: Director Ralph Lewis (Peculiar Theater Works), writer Trav S.D., Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (dry erase, Title IX, gatkes) 00:37:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (Ray n’ Bruce) 01:58:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:16:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ralph Lewis and Trav S.D. 03:06:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (autumnal) 03:30:00 Friends 03:41:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (in the news) 04:19:00 Weather 04:21:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 23, 2017 Playlist: “Growin’ Up” ({Tracks version}; 01:23:00), “Hunter of Invisible Game” (01:30:00) & “O Mary Don’t You Weep {live in Dublin version} 01:38:30; Bruce Springsteen). “(Night Time is) The Right Time” (01:26:00), “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying” (01:34:00) & “Hit the Road, Jack” (01:45:00; Ray Charles). “Who Loves You?” (02:13:00; Jersey Boys 2005 Broadway cast). “Autumn Leaves” (03:08:00), “Beyond the Horizon” (03:11:00) & “Idiot Wind” (03:17:00; Bob Dylan). “Rocket Man” (03:42:30; Elton John). “Maria” (03:47:00; Jane Siberry). “Intermezzo” (03:52:00; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana). “Mexican Home” (03:55:00; Josh Ritter). “Never Talking to You Again” (03:58:00) & “Books About UFOs” (04:07:00; Husker Du). “Dream on Sweet Dreamer” (04:25:00; Tom Paxton).
(pictured: Trav S.D., Ralph Lewis, Grant Hart, Ray Charles, The Boss)
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with director Ralph Lewis and writer Trav S.D.
Topics include: Androboros, Peculiar Works Project, theater, vaudeville, off-off-Broadway. Segment aired Sept. 23, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 621st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, Sept. 16, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Cohen n’ Cave, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (mercy me)
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (crone, movie night, Potato Day!, Tyto Alba) 00:40:00 Sponsors 00:48:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:30:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Cohen n’ Cave 02:02:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:27:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (mercy me) 02:49:30 Friends 03:00:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:42:00 Weather 03:44:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 16, 2017 Playlist: “Hummingbird” (00:36:00; Tyto Alba). “I’m Too Sexy (For My Prostate)” (00:42:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Skeleton Tree” (01:36:00) & “Let Love In” (01:44:00; Nick Cave). Traveling Light” (01:40:00) & “Joan of Arc” (01:48:30; Leonard Cohen). “To Be With You” (02:24:00; Love’s Labour’s Lost 2014 off-Broadway cast). “Everything is Broken” (02:30:30) & “Where Teardrops Fall” (02:45:30; Bob Dylan). “Most of the Time” (02:36:30; Sophie Zelmani). “Texas Blues” (03:02:00; Bill Morrissey). “St. Louis Blues” (03:05:00; Bessie Smith). “London Town” (03:08:00; Donovan). “Irma” (03:12:00; Magnetic Fields). “Ten Little Indians” (03:14:30; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson 2010 off-Broadway cast). “The Deal” (03:17:00; Amy Rigby). “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (03:21:00; Harry Dean Stanton). “Autumn Fair” (03:49:30; Laura McGhee).
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Here is the 620th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, Sept. 2, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s new song (“I’m Too Sexy (For My Prostate)”). Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Liam & Loudon, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Joyce in NY, Hurricane Harvey, Storey’s story, Dave’s restaurant, screaming hairy armadillos, Snooty post-mortem) 01:01:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:33:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:57:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Liam & Loudon 02:17:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later 02:42:00 Friends 02:59:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:38:30 Weather 03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 2, 2017 Playlist: “I Go to Work” (00:39:30; Kool Moe Dee). “There Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” (01:21:00; Asleep at the Wheel). “Natasha Lost” (01:40:00; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 2013 off-Broadway cast). “Dirty Old Town” (01:59:30) & “An Poc Ar Buile” (02:09:00; The Clancy Brothers). “The Letter That Never Came” (02:02:00) & “Valley Morning” (02:05:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “Chimes of Freedom” (02:19:00; Bob Dylan & Joan Osborne). “If You Ever Go to Houston” (02:24:00; Bob Dylan). “Hava Nagila” (02:36:00; Pete Himmelman, Harry Dean Stanton & Bob Dylan). “Popcorn” (02:48:00; Art Paul Schlosser). “I’m Too Sexy (For My Prostate)” (02:55:00; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Houston” (03:00:00; Dean Martin). “Chain Saw” (03:03:00; The Ramones). “Department Store” (03:05:00; Shelley Berman). “Immigrant Song” (03:11:00; Led Zeppelin). “National Brotherhood Week” (03:13:00; Tom Lehrer). “Fruits of My Labor” (03:16:00; Lucinda Williams).
(Pictured: Liam Clancy, Loudon Wainwright III, Rabbi Sol Solomon, Snooty)
Sung by Rabbi Sol Solomon to the melody of Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy.”
Song aired Sept. 2, 2017, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 619th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 26, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Featuring: Dave’s new Jerry Lewis song (“Jerree”). Plus: Inside Broadway, Dave Goes Off on the hurricane and eclipse, Saturday Segues (Van Morrison, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (late august).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:03:00 DAVE GOES OFF – The Eclipse 00:23:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Hurricane Harvey 01:02:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Van Morrison 01:28:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:59:00 Sponsors 02:02:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Late August) 02:29:30 Friends 02:37:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:40:30 Weather 03:42:30 DAVE GOES OUT
August 26, 2017 Playlist: “I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine” (00:19:00; The Ronettes). “Like a Hurricane” {unplugged version} (00:51:00; Neil Young). “Reminds Me of You” (01:04:00), “The Way Young Lovers Do” {live} (01:10:00), “Carry on Regardless” (01:13:00) & “Flamingos Fly” (01:19:00; Van Morrison). “I’m Still Here” (01:52:00; Follies 1971 Broadway cast w/ Yvonne De Carlo). “Tombstone Blues” (02:05:00) & “Dink’s Song” (02:11:00; Bob Dylan). “What was it You Wanted?” (02:16:00; Willie Nelson). “Boxing” (02:38:00; Ben Folds Five). “Shoveling Snow” (02:43:00; Dick Gregory). “Shine on, Harvey Bloom” (02:44:00; Allan Sherman). “The Bells of St. Sebastian” (02:47:00; Nine, 1992 London cast w/ Jonathan Pryce). “Love Song” (02:52:00; John Abercrombie). “Rock Me, Jerry Lewis” (02:56:00; Mike Elliot & Bud LaTour). “Jerree” (03:24:00; Dave Lefkowitz). “Sunday Driving” (03:49:00; Jerry Lewis).
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of August 20, 2017.
Nazis are bad. I just thought I’d get that out of the way in case you didn’t know. Nazis are bad. And just so we’re clear, within the realm of Nazis, I also mean the KKK and White Supremacists. Bad, naughty, bad.
See? Wasn’t that easy?
Not for the president. At a time when the United States needed a leader who could spout soothing platitudes about standing up to the bad guys, President Trump painted everyone as bad guys. And then he started saying that some of the bad guys were good guys. In doing so, he’s made himself a pariah even among Republicans who forgave him for seven previous months of crazy.
And what kills me is that much of what Donald Trump said after the Charlottesville slugfest was both defensible and sensible. In his first statement after the event, the President said there’s no place for bigotry and hatred in America, and that we should all unite as one people. I dare anyone besides David Duke and Mel Gibson to disagree with that. And Chuck Schumer, just because disagreeing with Republicans is how he gets his oxygen.
But Trump also wanted to make a point about law and order. Remember: the guy went to a military academy and grabs his ankles every time a general walks by, so for him, a peaceable kingdom has more value than a righteous one. So he said, Look, you had one side showing up for a rally with torches and sticks, and another side meeting them with bats and pepper spray. When they got too close to each other, it was like a Jerry Springer picnic. And Trump was saying, very clearly, that both sides came to rumble. Instead of the Sharks and the Jets, you had the rights and the lefts. If Antifa hadn’t shown up, the alt-right would have had a non-eventful event. But the militant anti-fascists did come, saw a bunch of racists and Jew haters two feet away, and went to town. If you wave a red flag in front of a bull, you better hide your china. Which mixes two metaphors but still makes more sense than Donald Trump’s next speech.
That’s where the orange one doubled down on the douchebags. Two days after reading a prepared statement saying Nazis are bad—took him two days, but he managed it—he tried to re-re-clarify his pronouncements on the mutual violence in Charlottesville. How did he do that? By saying—and I kid you not—that there were good people on both sides. Which means that white supremacists holding confederate and Nazi flags, shouting “Jews will not replace us”—some of them were okay dudes. And he wonders why even Fox News anchors are having a crisis of conscience. Well, the ones who haven’t been fired for sending dick pics.
Turns out it doesn’t matter who is trying to corral the President—Sean Spicer, John Kelly, the Mooch, that sexy siren Sarah Huckabee—they’re all dealing with a man who says the first thing that comes into his head, which is so filled with orange peroxide, there’s no brain left. If there were, he’d realize that what he was trying to say was simple. In Charlottesville, you could divide the situation into two elements: ideology and behavior. One side had an evil ideology; both sides engaged in inappropriate behavior.
I’ll put it another way. Let’s say Trump pushes through his budget next year and cuts meals on wheels for the aged and handicapped. So a million old people march on Washington. Along with some cripples who roll on Washington. And they protest the cruelty of denying support to those who need it most. And the protestors are so mad, they start bashing young people with their canes and hurling their diapers into the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. Worst of all, they destroy the ratings of the Hallmark Channel by missing a whole day of “Diagnosis Murder” reruns.
Now, ideologically, these geezers are on the side of the angels—with whom they will be consorting soon enough. They have right on their side. Not alt-right, virtue-right. But behaviorally, they’re wicked, and should be arrested as soon as the first colostomy bag hits the Potomac.
So you see that moral evil can be separated from physical misconduct. A well-spoken Nazi in a suit and tie is still a Nazi. A heart surgeon who speeds through a red light still deserves a ticket. And a President who usually means well can keep doing things that make us want to impeach him.
We’re in for a long national conversation about pulling down statues, taking down blogs, and everyone being fed up. But take heart, America. It’s only 41 more months to the next presidential election. And if we can just manage to stay out of a nuclear war, that’s more than enough time to bounce back from a civil war. Isn’t it?
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Sung by Rabbi Sol Solomon to the melody of Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy.”
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
