Dave’s Gone By #603 (4/22/2017): PLAY ON

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Here is the 603rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, April 22, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Bruce Langhorne), Potato News, My Sick Mind (Aaron Hernandez), Saturday Segues (Barbra Streisand, In the News)

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (earth day, achey pain, Broadway injuries, bad deodorant, waterpik, dui crash)
00:44:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:11:30 POTATO NEWS
01:17:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:17:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Barbra Streisand
02:35:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bruce Langhorne)
02:53:30 MY SICK MIND (Aaron Hernandez)
02:59:00 Friends
03:08:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:44:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 22, 2017 Playlist: “I’m a Little Airplane” (01:03:30) & “Springtime in New York” (03:52:30; Jonathan Richman). “Foxey Lady” ({live} 01:36:30; Jimi Hendrix). “You Matter to Me” (02:12:00; Waitress 2016 Broadway cast w/ Drew Gehling & Jessie Mueller). “Gotta Move” (02:20:00), “My Coloring Book” (02:22:00), “I Don’t Know Where I Stand” (02:26:00) & “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” (02:30:00 w/ Harold Arlen). “Corrina Corrina” (02:39:30), “Mr. Tambourine Man” ({live Bangladesh version} 02:42:00) & “She Belongs to Me” (02:46:30; Bob Dylan). “Oh, Atlanta” (03:10:00; Alison Krauss). “Turkish Song of the Damned” (03:14:30; The Pogues). “I Bought Ads on Facebook” (03:18:00; Eugene Mirman). “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Back” (03:23:30; Neko Case). “Uptight (Everything’s Alright” (03:25:30; Stevie Wonder). “Baba O’Riley” ({live} 03:28:30; The Who).


(pictured: Barbra, Bruce Langhorne, Potato News, Aaron Hernandez)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/15/2017): DAVE DAVIES & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Dave Davies
Topics include: songwriting, the Kinks, Russ Davies, Ray Davies.

Segment aired April 15, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #602 (4/15/2017): THINK KINK

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Here is the 602nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 15, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Dave Davies. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Liz Phair, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (taxes).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (tax day, Blind Date in Chennai, musical siblings, crash day, seder song)
00:51:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:22:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Liz Phair
01:48:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:19:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Dave Davies
03:11:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (taxes)
03:37:00 Friends
03:51:30 Sponsors
03:54:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:41:30 Thanks & Weather
04:45:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 15, 2017 Playlist: “Samba Snails” (00:59:30; Sexton Ming). “6’1” (01:28:00), “Table for One” (01:34:30) & “Never Said” (01:38:30; Liz Phair). “Friend of Mine” (01:31:00; Juliana Hatfield). “I’m not Bessie” & Give Me a Pigfoot” (Linda Hopkins). “Death of a Clown.” “I’m not Bessie (Intro)/Give me a Pigfoot” (02:16:30; Linda Hopkins). “Death of a Clown” (02:19:00), “Party Line” (02:31:00), “You Really Got Me” (02:37:30), “Two Sisters” (02:44:00), “You Don’t Know My Name” (03:09:00) & “Waterloo Sunset” (04:47:30). “World of Our Own” (02:52:00; Dave Davies). “The Levee’s Gonna Break” (03:14:00), “Copper Kettle” (03:19:30) & “Ballad of a Thin Man” ({live – no direction home} 03:23:30; Bob Dylan). “Old King Donald” (03:38:30; Drew Velting). “Out of Egypt” (03:56:00; Nikki Sudden). “The Airplane Part II” (04:01:30; Uncle Bonsai). “Hum Bomb” (04:06:00; Allen Ginsberg). “I Bombed Korea” (04:09:00; CAKE). “Centerfold” (04:11:00; J. Geils Band). “Before Easter” (04:15:00; Tracy Chapman).
(pictured: Dave Davies then & now, Liz Phair, Blind Date)

Dave’s Gone By #601 (4/8/2017): MERSCH MADNESS

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Here is the 601st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, April 8, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guest: author Michael Merschel (Dallas Morning News), friend Wendy Highby, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer Michael Merschel (“Revenge of the Star Survivors”). Plus: Inside Broadway, A call from Frendy (Wendy Highby & Fred Cleaver), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Brandeis Skyline), Saturday Segue (In the News, Tom n’ Tim)

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (chicken suit, NEA/USC)
00:14:00 GUEST: Wendy Highby
00:35:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Bette n’ Joan, Cheese Weasel Day, Gary Austin, Blind Date in Chennai)
01:06:00 Sponsors
01:08:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom n’ Tim
01:45:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:28:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Michael Merschel
03:19:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Brandeis Skyline)
03:40:00 Friends
03:50:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:34:00 Weather
04:36:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 8, 2017: “Caffeine” (00:28:00; Wendy Highby). “Be Prepared” (01:27:00), “She’s My Girl” (01:31:00) & “Oedipus Rex” (01:36:00; Tom Lehrer). “All That I Want is You” (01:28:30) & “She Left Me with the Herpes” (01:34:00; Tiny Tim). “Tommy Can You Hear Me” (02:26:00; The Who). “Nashville Skyline Rag” (03:23:30) & “Bob Dylan’s Dream” (03:26:30; Bob Dylan). “Lay Lady Lay” (03:32:00; Duran Duran). “St. Petersburg” (03:51:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “Nuclear War” (03:53:30; Sun Ra). “A Certain Chemical” (03:57:30; Soda). “Martin Scorsese Tribute” (04:02:30; Don Rickles). “Passover” (04:05:30; Make Me a Song 2008 off-Broadway cast). “Got the Farm Land Blues” (04:09:30; Carolina Tar Heels). “Exodus” (04:44:00; Bob Marley).






(pictured: Michael Merschel, Wendy Highby, Cheese Weasel Day, Tom Lehrer, Tiny Tim, Blind Date in Chennai) 

Dave’s Gone Gone By #600 (4/1/2017): NO FOOLING

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Here is the 600th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 1, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: A tribute to Dave’s 600th show! with Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Richard Thompson, Foolish Things), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Triplicate), Potato News, Inside Broadway)

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (happy #600!, nova lox, new airbag, Peggy)
00:35:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:13:00 POTATO NEWS
01:19:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Richard Thompson
01:45:00 Nostalgia Time (includes excerpts from episode #300 with Jeff Goodman)
02:10:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:37:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Triplicate)
02:55:30 More Nostalgia Time (w/excerpts of Issa, Juliana Hatfield, & Wing)
03:05:00 Friends
03:26:00 Saturday Segue – Foolish Things
03:44:30 Weather
03:47:30 Even More Nostalgia Time (come!)
03:55:00 DAVE GOES OUT
04:03:00 April Fool!

April 1, 2017 Playlist: “She Never Could Resist a Winding Road” (01:23:30), “I Still Dream” ({live} 01:28:00), “Lucky in Life, Unlucky in Love” (01:33:30), “First Light” ({w/Linda Thompson}; 01:37:00; Richard Thompson). “Some Girls” (Once on this Island 1990 Broadway cast w/ Jerry Dixon). “The Best is Yet to Come” (02:42:00), “I Could Have Told You” (02:45:00), “These Foolish Things” (02; Bob Dylan). “My Chanukah Wish” (03:15:30; Dave). “April Fools” (03:27:00; Aretha Franklin). “I’m Just Your Fool” (03:30:30; Little Walter). “I’m a Fool for You” (03:33:00; The Impressions). “You Old Fool” (03:35:30; The Weavers). “Fool About You” (03:38:30; Hank Williams). “How Could I Be Such a Fool?” (03:39:30; Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention). “April Fools” (03:59:00; Rufus Wainwright).







(pictured: Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan’s Triplicate, Our 300th show, gored matador, Potato News)

Dave’s Gone By #599 (3/25/2017): SUPREME COURTED

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Here is the 599th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 25, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Mary Wilson, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with The Supremes’s Mary Wilson. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (first boots), Saturday Segues (Chuck Berry, In the News).

Note: Mary Wilson passed Feb. 8, 2021 at age 76.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (healthcare, haribo, skee ball, personhood, the nuns, Spanish class, morning news, toilet nightlight, the great oreo peep experiment)
01:02:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:26:30 Sponsors
01:31:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chuck Berry
01:58:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Mary Wilson
03:21:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (first boots)
03:44:00 Friends
04:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:41:30 Weather
04:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT

March 25, 2017 Playlist: “Potato Love” (00:28:00) & “Batinhas” (00:48:30; Small Potatoes). “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man” (01:39:00), “Adulteen” (01:40:30), “Stop and Listen” (01:48:00), “Let it Rock” (01:50:30; Chuck Berry). “Round and Round” (01:43:00; The Rolling Stones). “Too Much Monkey Business” (01:46:00; The Beatles). “When Veruca Says” (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2013 London cast). “Come See About Me” (02:27:00), “Stop in the Name of Love” (02:50:00), “Floy Joy” (02:57:00), “He’s My Sunny Boy” (04:46:00; The Supremes). “Supremes Medley” (02:34:30) “You Can’t Hurry Love” (02:44:00), “Love Talk” (03:03:00) & “Time to Move On” (03:19:00; Mary Wilson). “He was a Friend of Mine” (03:30:00), “Santa Fe” (03:34:00) & “Golden Loom” (03:36:00). “How I Learned to Play Guitar” (03:55:00; Christine Lavin). “London Calling” (04:03:30; The Clash). “Hello from the Gutter” (04:07:00; Overkill). “I’ve Still Got My Health” (Panama Hattie 1940 Broadway cast w/ Ethel Merman). “Palisades Park” (04:14:00; Freddy Cannon).

(pictured: Mary Wilson, Bob Dylan’s Bootlegs v. 1-3, Chuck Berry)

Dave’s Gone By #598 (3/18/2017): SPRING FLING

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Here is the 598th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 18, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (springtime, in the news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (first & latest), Potato News.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (sick pet, small potatoes, taxes, the great oreo-peep experiment)
00:52:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:16:30 Sponsors
01:20:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Springtime
01:44:00 POTATO NEWS
01:48:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN – food product
01:53:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:29:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (first & latest)
02:48:00 Friends
02:59:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News

March 18, 2017 Playlist: “Imagination” (00:16:00; Small Potatoes). “You Want it Darker” (00:26:00; Leonard Cohen). “Springtime Promises” (01:22:00; Pentangle). “Really Spring” (01:26:00; John Gorka). “Springtime Again” (01:29:00; Sun Ra). “If You Want to Die in Bed” (Miss Saigon 2014 London cast w/ Jon Jon Briones). “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” (02:33:00), “Highway 51” (02:36:00) & “Stardust” (02:38:30; Bob Dylan). “We are Family” (03:00:30; Sister Sledge). “Tax Rebates and Common Sense” (03:04:00; Lewis Black). “Low Budget” (03:09:00; The Kinks). “I Want to Be Loved” (03:13:00; Muddy Waters). “Springtime” (Jeffrey Lewis).

Dave’s Gone By #597 (3/11/2017): FASSINATING

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Here is the 597th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 11, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com. 

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: author Ron Fassler, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Ron Fassler (“Up in the Cheap Seats”). Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection #145 (Purim Jokes 2017), Greeley Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (funnies), Potato News, Saturday Segues (Purim, In the News)

00:00:01 DAVE’S GONE BY w/ Joyce (broken sound machine, dogs, cronuts, justice Askew)
00:30:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:03:30 POTATO NEWS
01:07:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (cable news, oreo peeps, SuperShuttle, nurses)
01:26:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Purim
01:47:30 Sponsors
01:50:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:22:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ron Fassler
03:17:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (funnies)
03:38:00 Friends
03:45:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #145 (Purim Jokes)
03:53:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:16:30 Weather
04:18:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 11, 2017 Playlist: “Tsuris, pt. 1” (01:26:30) & “Tsuris, pt. 2” (01:40:30). “Two Old Jewish Men” (01:30:00) & “Three Old Jewish Men” (01:39:30; Gilbert Gottfried). “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” (01:31:00; Weird Al Yankovic). “Nudnick the Flying Schissel” (01:34:00; Mickey Katz). “Sol’s Glasses” (01:37:00; The Jerky Boys). “Medley” (02:15:30; Come from Away Toronto cast). “I Love My Wife” (02:19:30; I Do! I Do! Broadway cast w/ Robert Preston). “Rothschild and Sons” (03:11:00; The Rothschilds 1971 Broadway cast w/ Hal Linden). “Polka Dot Undies” (03:19:00; Bowser & Blue). “Po’ Boy” (03:23:30; Bob Dylan). “Positively Wall Street” (03:26:30; National Lampoon’s Lemmings off-Broadway cast w/ Christopher Guest). “Green Eggs & Ham” (03:29:00; Kevin Ryan). “I’m Bugged” (03:54:00; XTC). “The Great Health Care Trial Balloon” (03:57:30; Capitol Steps). “When I’m Gone” (04:00:30; The Bridges of Madison County 2014 Broadway cast). “Koreandogwood” (04:04:30; Devendra Banhart). “Red Irish Rose” (04:08:30; Tommy Maken & Liam Clancy). “The Revolutionary Costume for Today” (04:21:30; Grey Gardens 2006 Broadway cast w/ Christine Ebersole).





(pictured: Ron Fassler, Up in the Cheap Seats, Purim, Potato News, Sally Field in The Glass Menagerie)

Dave’s Gone By #596 (3/4/2017): ON YOUR TOCE

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 Here is the 596th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC radio, March 4, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: songwriter Tom Toce, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews songwriter Tom Toce. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Playboy, Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Potato News, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Joan Osborne), Saturday Segues (Gary Numan, In the News)

00:00:01 DAVE’S GONE BY w/ Joyce (sabbatical, no critics, Columbia)
00:36:00 POTATO NEWS
00:42:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (dead horses & mump titers, hpv)
00:50:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:11:30   SATURDAY SEGUE – Gary Numan
01:32:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:00:00  GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tom Toce
02:35:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Joan Osborne)
03:03:00 Friends
03:17:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #144 (Playboy)
03:24:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News)
03:52:00 Weather
03:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 4, 2017 Playlist: “Are `Friends’ Electric?” (01:13:30), “Complex” (01:19:00) & “Walking with Shadows” (01:22:00; Gary Numan). “Live for Loving You” (On Your Feet 2016 Broadway cast). “You Could Have Fooled Me” (01:58:00), “Our Fair City” (02:11:30), “Better than Rock `n’ Roll” (02:32:30) & “Welcome to Another Day” (03:57:00; Tom Toce). “I’ll Remember You” ({live}; 02:37:30) & “Quinn the Eskimo” ({take 1} 02:50:00; Bob Dylan). “Man in the Long Black Coat” (02:41:30; Joan Osborne). “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” (03:26:00; Paul Simon). “Moonlight Serenade” (03:29:00; Frank Sinatra). “Have You Ever Seen a Prettier Little Congress & Stability” (03:33:00; The Rothschilds 1970 Broadway cast). “World Tour Sessions” (03:36:30; Public Enemy).


(pictured: Tom Toce’s “Songwriter in the House,” Tom Toce, Potato News, Gary Numan, Playboy magazine)

Dave’s Gone By #595 (2/25/2017): CHANZES ARE

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Here is the 595th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 25, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress LaChanze, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tony-winning actress LaChanze (Once on this Island, If/Then). Inside Broadway, Saturday Segue (George Harrison, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Ash Wednesday), Potato News

00:00:01 DAVE’S GOES IN w/ Joyce (glass butterfly, meowsical, potatoes, waka waka boom boom)
00:32:30 POTATO NEWS
00:35:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (potato news critique, hockey, tv conflict, potato visits, acting advice)
01:23:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:52:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – George Harrison
02:13:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:38:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews LaChanze
03:28:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Ash Wednesday)
03:56:30 Friends
04:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:43:00 Weather
04:45:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Feb. 25, 2017 Playlist: “I Want to Tell You” (01:54:30; The Beatles). “Badge” (01:57:00; Cream). “Woman Don’t You Cry for Me” (02:00:00) & “I Don’t Want to Do It” (02:02:30; George Harrison). “Finishing the Hat” (02:31:00; Betty Buckley). “Waiting for Life” (02:34:30; Once on this Island 1990 Broadway cast w/ LaChanze). “Another Hundred People” (02:50:30; Company 1995 Broadway cast w/ LaChanze). “It’s a Sign” (03:00:00; If/Then 2014 Broadway cast). “Something of My Own” (03:26:30; LaChanze). “Percy’s Song” (03:31:30) & “Copper Kettle” ({no-overdub version; 03:48:00; Bob Dylan). “Foot of Pride” (03:39:00; Lou Reed). “Funky Drummer” (04:03:30; James Brown). “The Jam with Albert” (04:09:30) & “The Restful Mind” (04:47:30; Larry Coryell). “Mirror in the Bathroom” (04:12:30; The English Beat). “CNN and the News” (04:15:30; Judy Gold). “Catacombs” (04:17:00; Poi Dog Pondering).

Pictured: LaChanze, George Harrison, Potato news, Ash Wednesday, Meowsical.