DAVE’S GONE BY is a weekly video podcast that mixes talk, humor, culture, and music. The program currently airs Saturdays, 9AM-noon(Eastern) live on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davesgoneby. Episodes are then archived on this website, davesgoneby.com.
DAVE’S GONE BY debuted Sunday night, 11pm, Oct. 6, 2002, on WGBB-AM on Long Island. The hour-long show soon moved to Monday evenings and expanded to 90 minutes. Early segments included comedy skits, The World Weird Web, the satirical News Gone By, and Dave’s Gone Cultural, which eventually evolved into the “Inside Broadway” segment. Special shows included annual expanded broadcasts celebrating the Tony Awards and New Year’s Eve. These specials continue to this day.
In 2009, producer and host Dave Lefkowitz and his wife moved to Northern Colorado. For several months, the program was pre-recorded and posted as an internet stream. After a half-year hiatus, DAVE’S GONE BY returned Aug. 7, 2010 with a three-hour, Saturday morning broadcast on UNC Radio.
In 2018, owing to financial issues at the university, UNC Radio went dark. By then, Dave’s Gone By had already found its new home and format: live video streaming. It was a fortuitous transition because Dave and his wife would move back to Long Island in 2019, and, in 2022, relocate to their current home in northern Maryland. Dave’s Gone By now airs live on Facebook on Saturday mornings, with episodes archived at davesgoneby.com.
The current format includes such segments as Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues, StoryTime, Potato News, Wretched Puns of Destiny, Bunion Watch, and the Colorado Limerick of the Damned.
For several years on Long Island, Jeff Goodman served as guest co-host of the program, with radio host Joe Salzone also taking part in may shows. In recent years, Dave’s wife Joyce has joined him for much of the broadcast, including the popular “Greeley Times” segment.
Notable guests on DAVE’S GONE BY have included musicians (Judy Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, Christine Lavin, Jane Siberry, Neil Sedaka, Janis Ian, October Project, George Clinton, Lloyd Cole), actors (Carol Channing, Charles Grodin, Robert Cuccioli, Carol Lawrence, Charlotte Rae), playwrights (Lee Blessing, John Pielmeier, Jeffrey Sweet, Greg Kotis), and media personalities (Joe Franklin, Dr. Demento, Dick Cavett).
And no history of DAVE’S GONE BY would be complete without mentioning Rabbi Sol Solomon, a guest on our very first program and a recurring visitor ever since. Rabbi Sol is the founder and spiritual leader of Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York, and his mini-sermons, called “Rabbinical Reflections,” have aired since Jan. 15, 2011. Rabbi Sol also conducts many of the program’s interviews and even appeared off-Broadway in a play he co-wrote with Dave, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.
For more info on the Rebbe, please visit his website, ShalomDammit.com.
Nearly every episode of Dave’s Gone By has been saved and is archived on this website, plus you’ll find separate archives of our interviews, skits, songs, and wretched puns. Enjoy!
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Producer and host Dave Lefkowitz is an award-winning playwright and a decade-long veteran of both terrestrial and internet radio. The founder of TotalTheater.com and former co-publisher of Performing Arts Insider theater journal, Dave spent a decade writing a monthly theater column for Long Island Pulse magazine. He’s written for Backstage, Show Business, Long Island Woman, Playbill, Playboy, New York Theater News, and Entertainment Weekly. He holds a BFA (film & TV production) and MFA (dramatic writing) from New York University and an MA in theater education from the University of Northern Colorado.
In 2012, his staging of Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, played to notable acclaim in NYC. His solo play, The Miracle of Long Johns, won the Best Non-Fiction Script Award at the 2015 United Solo Festival in NYC.
From 2010-12 and 2016-17, Dave served as the programming director for University of Northern Colorado Radio. He now teaches English and Film at a Maryland University.
