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Here is the 364th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 22, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Barb Jungr and actor-singer Jason Graae
Featuring: Dave chats with singer Barb Jungr and actor-singer Jason Graae. Plus: a Saturday Segue remembering Bert Jansch and Jagjit Singh, Inside Broadway (reviews of Intringulis and Follies), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflections on Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:31:00 GUEST: Barb Jungr 01:24:00 Sponsors 01:35:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Bert Jansch 01:45:00 GUEST: Jason Graae 02:22:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (Follies (02:22:00) & Intringulis (02:37:00)) 02:44:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #26: Occupied 02:52:00 DAVE – Friends & Weather 02:58:30 DAVE GOES OUT 02:59:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Jagjit Singh
October 22, 2011 Playlist: “Things Have Changed” (00:09:30), “Sara” (00:14:30), “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (00:19:30), “Sugar Baby” (00:23:30), “Blind Willie McTell” (00:40:30), “Man in the Long Black Coat” (01:09:00) & “Forever Young” (01:19:30; Barb Jungr); “Come Sing Me A Happy Song to Prove We Can All Get Along the Lumpy Bumpy Long and Dusty Road” (01:22:30), “The Bright New Year” (01:37:00), “Alman” (01:41:00) & “Tree Song” (01:42:30) (Bert Jansch); “No Love is Sorrow” (01:38:30; Pentangle); “You I Like” (01:45:00), “It Only Takes a Moment/Loving You” (02:05:30) & “I Promise You a Happy Ending” (02:19:00) (Jason Graae); “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs” (02:22:00; Follies, 1998 Paper Mill cast); “Don’t Look at Me” (02:35:00; Follies in Concert); “Sarakti Jaye Hain Rukh Se Naqab Ahista Ahista” (03:02:30; Jagjit Singh).
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 2nd, 2011.
He’s making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice – not Santa Claus; I’m talkin’ about God. This is the time of year when HaShem opens his great big book. And I don’t mean “Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Borscht.” I mean the book of life and death, the book where God inscribes your name for the year. If he writes your name in bold calligraphy, you’re gonna have a fabulous year ahead. If he scribbles your name in pencil and deliberately spells it wrong, you better get health insurance. And if he erases it or just puts your initials in the margin, you might want to go shopping for a good mausoleum.
These are the Days of Awe, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We call them the Days of Awe because we look at all the crappy things we’ve done and go, “awwwww.” This is a time of reflection, expiation and making amends. If you’ve cheated somebody, or told a hurtful falsehood, or threatened to kick somebody’s tuchas because they won’t let your nine year old be in the school play (even though she’s perfect for it, and she can act rings around that little blonde whore they got for the part because her parents donate ten thousand dollars a year to the school’s PTA fund… bastards!), you need to take a breath, acknowledge that you may have overreacted (even if you haven’t) and apologize to those you have disparaged, and to HaShem for your prideful behavior.
Unlike the Catholics, who do so much sinning they have to confess every week, Jews save up all their misdeeds to talk about them one day a year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On this day, we say, “I’m sorry” to God and to everyone we have offended. Granted, there’s some absurdity there, because you’re not allowed to bathe, put on deodorant or use mouthwash, which means if you go to synagogue on Yom Kippur, you’re offending everybody.
In the shul, the cantor sings “Kol Nidre,” a prayer in which we ask God not to take us seriously. Seriously! We tell HaShem, “Look, over the course of the year, we’re gonna make some pretty stupid promises. At a traffic stop, we’ll say, `God, if this patrolman lets me off with a warning, I’ll donate what the ticket would have cost to charity.’ Or we’ll think, `If this dentist would just stop giving me pain, I’ll stop wishing to see him thrown from a tall building onto a steal spike.’ Or we’ll say, `If I could only get this raise, I’ll stop stealing office supplies.’” We won’t. And God knows we won’t. And we know God knows we won’t. So we sing “Kol Nidre” to him to let ourselves off the hook: “God, anything we vow to do over the next 12 months, ehhhh..not gonna happen. So please don’t listen. Put on your iPod. Just nod and wink and realize we’re gonna be back here in a year apologizing for shit we did that we said we wouldn’t, and stuff we didn’t do that we promised we would. And when you write my name in big block letters, remember it’s Solomon with one `L’ and three `O’s.’”
I hope, dear listeners, that we are all inscribed in the book of life and that we don’t do anything to jeopardize that status. After all, these days I’m sure God is using an e-book, so if we’re bad, all he has to do is backspace. At least the Days of Awe allow us to…re-Kindle.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
Topics include: One Day at a Time, Applause, Broadway, theater, TV.
Segment originally aired Oct. 1, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Bonnie Franklin, passed March 1, 2013.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews musician and radio host Greg Kihn
Topics include: Greg Kihn band, radio, MTV.
Segment originally aired Oct. 1, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 363rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Oct. 1, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: actress Bonnie Franklin, musician Greg Kihn
Featuring: Dave chats with actress Bonnie Franklin and musician and author Greg Kihn. Plus: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (paint) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Jewish Days of Awe.
Note: Bonnie Franklin passed March 1, 2013.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:17:30 GUEST: Bonnie Franklin 01:05:00 Sponsors 01:19:30 GUEST: Greg Kihn 02:00:00 Weather 02:03:00 BOB DYLAN: Sooner & Later – “When He Paints…” 02:41:00 Sponsors 02:44:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Days of Awe 02:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news) 02:56:00 Friends 03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
October 1, 2011 Playlist: “Do What You Gotta Do” (00:10:00), “Wherever There’s Smoke” (01:30:00), “Jeopardy” (01:16:00), “The Break-Up Song” (01:53:00) & “Little Red Book” (01:57:30; Greg Kihn); “Applause” (00:13:30) & “She’s No Longer a Gypsy” (01:02:00; Applause, 1970 Bway cast w/ Bonnie Franklin); “When I Paint My Masterpiece” (02:07:00), “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” (02:10:30), “Desolation Row” (live) (02:16:00), “I Shall Be Free” (Demo) (02:24:30), “She Belongs to Me” (live) (02:29:00) & “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (excerpt, 02:31:00), “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (live 1975) (02:35:30; Bob Dylan); “Great Big Love” (03:04:00; Bruce Cockburn).
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews comedian (Leo) Gallagher
Topics include: comedy, watermelons.
Segment originally aired Sept. 24, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Gallagher, passed Nov. 11, 2022.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews the son of Jack Lemmon, actor and singer Chris Lemmon
Topics include: movies, Jack Lemmon, cabaret.
Segment originally aired Sept. 24, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 362nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Sept. 24, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: actor-musician Chris Lemmon & comedian Gallagher
Featuring: Dave chats with actor Chris Lemmon and comedian Gallagher. Plus: Dave Says Bye to R.E.M., Inside Broadway (news), and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Palestinian statehood.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Lemons 00:33:00 GUEST: Chris Lemmon 01:13:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & Dr. Selavy) 01:32:30 Weather & Sponsors 01:39:30 GUEST: Gallagher 02:26:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later 02:43:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #24: Palestinian statehood 02:51:00 Friends 02:59:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – R.E.M. 03:28:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 24, 2011 Playlist: “Lemon” (00:13:00; U2), “Baby Lemonade” (Syd Barrett; 00:20:00); “The Lemon Song” (00:24:00; Led Zeppelin); “Lemon Tree” (Peter, Paul & Mary; 00:30:00), “A Twist of Lemmon” (excerpt, Chris Lemmon; 01:06:00); “Jingle” (01:24:00), “Bankrupt Blues” (01:24:30), “Future for Sale” (01:26:00), “Requiem” (01:27:00) & “Life on the Inside” (01:29:00; Dr. Selavy’s Magic Theater, 1972 off-Bway cast), Gallagher youtube clips (01:39:30 & 02:19:30; Gallagher); “Clean Cut Kid” (02:27:00), “Country Pie” (02:31:00), “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (02:32:30), “Neighborhood Bully” (02:35:00; Bob Dylan); “Fall on Me” (02:47:30), “Mr. Richards” (02:59:00), “Disturbance at the Heron House” (03:03:00), “Near Wild Heaven” (03:06:30), “Nightswimming” (03:17:00), “Me in Honey” (03:21:00), “I Am Superman” (03:25:30) “It’s the End of the World as We Know it” (03:32:00; R.E.M.).
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Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of September 25th, 2011.
So the Palestinians want a state. Whoopdeefreakin’-doo. All these years of fighting Israel, blowing up restaurants in Israel, sabotaging peace talks with Israel – and all they wanted all along was to BE Israel. Of course, they have to have THEIR Israel inside the current Israel, which is why Obama and Bibi Netanyahu are telling them where they can stick their kebabs.
I have nothing against the Palestinians having a state of their own. Besides their usual state of confusion. They can have a homeland in Jordan, they can have one in Saudi Arabia. Even Turkey can throw `em a few kilometers. Why does it have to be in Israel? Israel is 10,000 square miles; the rest of the middle east is 8.6 million square miles. It’s like Walmart coming to town and saying, “We could build our superstore in that huge abandoned parking lot, but we’d rather squeeze it into your kitchen.”
What people forget is that in the 1920s, when England was controlling Palestine, the Arabs were offered half of it. They turned it down because they didn’t want to share it with Jews. In 1947, they turned down a two-state solution for the same reason. A year later, Israel became a nation, the Arabs attacked, and their turbans have been soaked in blood ever since.
So suddenly, they turn to the United Nations – which has been sucking the shmeckel of the Arabs for six decades – and the Palestinians say, “Declare us a state.” They don’t say where, they don’t say how. If there’s Jews on it, that’s where they want to be.
In the 63 years since Israel came to be, what have the Arabs done to prove that they can co-exist side by side with Jews? Or any living thing, for that matter? 9/11, Lockerbie, bombings in Gaza, the Yom Kippur War, the Munich Olympics, the London subways. What a record of accomplishment!
So here’s my idea for the Palestinians – they should all go to the zoo. No, really. Bring them to the biggest zoo in Lebanon with lots of land and food and vegetation. Then partition the zoo so that the Arabs have half of it and the lions and tigers and bears have the other half. Just make sure to put up signs around the zoo that say: “Caution! Wild and Vicious Animals.” It’s only fair to warn the lions, tigers and bears.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. Shana Tovah!
Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress and singer Rita Gardner
Topics include: The Fantasticks.
Segment originally aired Sept. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Rita Gardner, passed Sept. 23, 2022.
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