Dave Lefkowitz interviews playwright Michael Weller Topics include: Moonchildren, Dr. Zhivago, Ragtime, theater
Segment originally aired Sept. 29, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 144th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 29, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: playwright Michael Weller
Featuring: Dave chats with Playwright Michael Weller (Moonchildren). Plus: the satirical News Gone By and the skit, Cookie Remembers Ernie.
0:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:03:00 NEWS GONE BY 00:18:00 GUEST: Michael Weller 00:41:00 SKIT: “Cookie Remembers Ernie” 00:51:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-songwriter Jill Sobule
Topics include: music, I Kissed a Girl, Judaism.
Segment originally aired Sept. 22, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Note: Farewell to our friend of the Daverhood, Jill Sobule, who passed May 2, 2025 at age 66.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
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Here is the 143rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 22, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guests: Rabbi Sol Solomon, spiritual leader of Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, NY, and singer-songwriter Jill Sobule
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer-songwriter Jill Sobule.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jill Sobule 00:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 22, 2005 Playlist: “Mexican Wrestler,” “Karen By Night,” “I Kissed a Girl” & “Underdog Victorious” (Jill Sobule).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews theater director and NeoFuturists founder Greg Allen
Topics include: theater, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Segment originally aired Sept. 15, 2005 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 142nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, Sept. 15, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: NeoFuturist theater director and creator of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Greg Allen.
Featuring: Dave chats with NeoFuturist theater director Greg Allen. Plus Dave’s Katrina song, Stuck on the Roof.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:11:00 GUEST: Greg Allen 00:48:00 Intro & Hurricane Song: “Stuck on the Roof” (Dave) 00:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 15, 2005 Playlist: “The Idea of You,” “Title” & “Loud Song” (“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” cd); “Stuck on the Roof” (Dave, unreleased).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews theater composer Frank Wildhorn
Topics include: theater, Broadway, Jekyll & Hyde, Dracula, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Segment originally aired Sept. 8, 2005 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 141st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 8, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: theater composer Frank Wildhorn
Featuring: Dave chats with theater composer Frank Wildhorn(Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:05:00 GUEST: Frank Wildhorn 00:50:99 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 8, 2005 Playlist: “No One Knows Who I Am” (Jekyll & Hyde), “Storybook” (The Scarlet Pimpernel), “Freedom’s Child” (Hootie & the Blowfish).
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Here is the 140th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 1, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Featuring: Dave talks about his vacation and Goes Off on the oil situation. Plus: Inside Broadway Says Bye to playwright August Wilson.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN – My Summer Vacation 00:32:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Oil 00:42:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – August Wilson 00:49:00 DAVE GOES OUT Sept. 1, 2005 Playlist: “Mobutaba” & “On the Bayou” (Robert Klein), “September Cones” (Robyn Hitchcock).
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HELLHOLE SUBMARINE
(Note: Sung to the melody of Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s “Yellow Submarine”)
In the dacha where I was born lived a man who sailed the sea When I turned 14 years old they gagged and bound and shanghaied me
So we sailed into the sun Till we crashed into a reef Now we sink beneath the waves And we sing in pain and grief: We all die on a stupid submarine stupid submarine stupid submarine We all die on this stupid submarine stupid submarine stupid submarine
All our friends from other ships Won’t get close to us till it’s too late While the whales and fish and sea We completely contaminate
We all die on a stupid submarine stupid submarine stupid submarine We all die on this stupid submarine stupid submarine stupid submarine
Oxygen is running out and our food supply is far from clean As the crew begins to pray: (sounds of labored breathing)
We all die on a stupid submarine stupid submarine stupid submarine
So we blub inside the sub which I wish I had never seen We’re turning blue, we’re peeing green in this hellhole submarine (spoken) Submarine! (coughs)
We all die on this hellhole submarine hellhole submarine stupid submarine Yes, we all die on a hellhole submarine hellhole submarine hellhole submarine (spoken) Just the men! We all die on this hellhole submarine hellhole submarine…
(c)2005 David Lefkowitz
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NOTES & BACKSTORY: [June 2023] This song was created for my radio show, Dave’s Gone By, as part of the recurring News Gone By segment, which poked fun at news and current events. Here’s how I introduced the song on its Aug. 11, 2005 debut. Note that the story is true, the song stuff, not so much:
“Harrowing news from Russia this week where a mini-submarine became trapped in metal debris at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sub got tangled in the wires of an underwater monitoring station, leaving only a few days’ supply of oxygen available to the crew—an eerie echo of the Kursk disaster. Russian authorities kept the accident secret the first day. Then they tried to rescue the sub themselves the next day. They accepted help from England and other nations only as time began running out. Rear Admiral Vladimir Pepelyayev told Russian reporters that the crew were keeping their spirits up as best they could: playing cards, telling stories. In fact, before they were miraculously rescued, they actually were able to transmit, by Morse Code, the words and music to a song one of the sailors wrote about the situation. I happen to have it here. In tribute to that brave and saved crew of the AS-28, I’m gonna sing it now. I think it shows their resilience, their spunk, and their hilarious misery.”
