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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.”
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Here is the 139th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio Aug. 11, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: gay icon Peter Fitzgerald
Featuring: Dave goes Inside Broadway for the revue, Lennon. Plus: Dave’s songs, “99 Barrels of Oil” and “Hellhole Submarine,” the satirical News Gone By and Peter Fitzgerald on “Homo Hendrix.”
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:05:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Lennon 00:12:00 NEWS GONE BY 00:17:00 SONG: “Hellhole Submarine” (Dave) 00:31:00 SONG: “99 Barrels of Oil” (Dave) 00:40:00 SKIT: “Homo Hendrix” w/ Peter Fitzgerald 00:51:00 DAVE GOES OUT
August 11, 2005 Playlist: “Hellhole Submarine” & “99 Barrels of Oil,” (Dave), “#9 Dream” & “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” (John Lennon), “Fire” & “Star Spangled Banner” (Jimi Hendrix).
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Gay icon Peter Fitzgerald weighs in an a biography of Jimi Hendrix that questions his sexuality
Segment originally aired Aug. 4, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 138th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Aug. 4, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Featuring: Dave goes Inside Broadway, remembers Robert Wright and goes off on The Aristocrats. Plus: the satirical News Gone By.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:03:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Fall Casts 00:15:00 NEWS GONE BY 00:28:00 DAVE GOES OFF – The Aristocrats 00:41:00 DAVE REMEMBERS – Broadway composer Robert Wright 00:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 4, 2005 Playlist: “Strangers in Paradise” (Tony Bennett), “Finale/Sands of Time” (Kismet, original cast).
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Here is the 137th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, July 28, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Featuring: Dave goes Inside Broadway for Suzanne Somers’ solo, plus: the satirical News Gone By and the skit, So You Wanna Be a Terrorist?
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:07:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Thunderburned 00:17:00 NEWS GONE BY 00:40:00 SKIT: “So You Wanna Be A Terrorist?” 00:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Segment originally aired July 28, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 136th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, July 21, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: musical-theater composer David Spencer (“The Musical Theater Writer’s Survival Guide”)
Featuring: Dave chats with musical-theater composer David Spencer. Plus: Dave gets trivial about MSUD.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 GUEST: David Spencer 00:45:00 DAVE GETS TRIVIAL – MSUD 00:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT
July 21, 2005 Playlist: “You Can Always Find a Fable” & “Epilogue: He Could Always Find a Fable” (“The Fabulist”); “Friday at Four” (“A Class Act”).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews musical-theater writer David Spencer
Topics include: theater, musicals.
Segment originally aired July 21, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer Amy Coleman and radio host Valerie Smaldone
Topics include: radio, fringe theater, “Spit it Out.”
Segment originally aired July 14, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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