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Dave’s cousin Debra O’Brien and aunt Esther Brower join Dave for the 2016 New Year’s Eve special.
Topics include: 2016
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 587th episode–our annual New Year’s Eve special–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, Dec. 31, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: composer Brian Gari, Chicago theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge, Dave’s aunt Esther Brower, cousins Bobby & Debra O’Brien, and wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave and Joyce welcome the new year with songs, segues, phone calls, n’ banter. Plus: The Best of Greeley Crimes and Old Times.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:03:00 GUEST: Dave’s aunt Esther Brower 00:08:00 GUESTS: Dave’s cousins Debra and Bobby O’Brien 00:30:00 GUEST: musician Brian Gari 01:14:30 GUEST: theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge 02:01:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Passings 02:31:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #142 (2016 Farewell) {originally aired 12/24/16} 02:40:00 BEST OF GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 02:56:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Seventeen 03:10:30 DAVE GOES OUT
“War” (00:51:30; Bob Marley). “Happy New Year to You” (00:57:30; Sun Ra). “Where are We Now?” (02:02:30) & “Heroes” ({live Stage version}; David Bowie). “Fight for Your Right to Party” (01:04:30; The Beastie Boys). “Gravy and Potatoes” (01:58:00; Dan Crow). “Diamonds and Pearls” (02:07:00; Prince). “If We Make it Through December” (02:09:00; Merle Haggard). “Faith” (02:20:30; George Michael). “You Want it Darker” 02:23:30; Leonard Cohen). “So Funky” (02:27:00; Blowfly). “Gotta Travel On” (02:36:30; The Limeliters). “Auld Lang Syne” (02:53:30; Guy Lombardo). “Alive” (02:57:00; Sia). “Seventeen” (02:57:00; Heathers 2014 off-Broadway cast). “Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise)” (03:05:00; The Sound of Music w/ Mary Martin).
(pictured below: Brian Gari, Mary Shen Barnidge, Esther Brower, Debra O’Brien, Dave n’ Joyce)
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 25, 2016.
Events of the past few months notwithstanding, it is not yet the apocalypse. However, we do have a stunning occurrence coming upon us: as we speak, Chanukah and Christmas have arrived at exactly the same time. I have spoken before, some would say at unconscionable length, about not conflating the two holidays. They come from two very different, irreconcilable religions. I don’t begrudge my Christian brethren and sistren, but don’t put a Jewish star on top of a Christmas tree and expect me to feel grateful.
In fact, the only thing I feel gratitude for these days is that 2016 is coming to a merciful end. I don’t need to tell you what a long, meshuggenah trip it’s been. Or maybe I do, in verse form.
`Tis the first night of Chanukah From Tampa to Tulsa
The candles are burning Just like my ulcer
The dreidels are spinning The latkes are frying
The Muslims are killing The people are dying
The year has been tough That couldn’t be clearer
So Twenty-Sixteen Here’s your rear-view mirror
The campaign for president took a dark journey As Democrat dummies picked Hil and screwed Bernie
Huckabee, Kasich, Rubio, Paul The louder they got, the harder they’d fall
Jindal and Christie, Carson and Cruz But then Donald Trump bubbled up from the ooze
He battered Ms. Clinton for being a female She stumbled and fumbled and mishandled email
Trump lied and insulted and mocked with each Tweet But then he fell in with the party elite
And lo and behold, as he, alone, expected The con-artist clown is the guy we elected
If that’s not enough to make us all retch There’s plenty more reasons about which to kvetch
There’s Brexit and Brussels and murder in Mosul While Syria looks like a garbage disposal
All across Europe, security sucks Who’s teaching these young Arab men to drive trucks?
The Istanbul bomber ignited our fears Another putz shot up a club full of queers
Mosquitoes with zika came in for the kill While lyin’ Ryan Lochte shamed us in Brazil
Hurricane Matthew brought death and disaster A wild Turkish cop shot the Russian ambass’dor
An EgyptAir plane crashed into the sea And North Carolina won’t let trannies pee
All over the world, ISIS steps up attacks While our police fire at black people’s backs
If that’s not enough to make you all wince 2016 took Bowie and Prince
Gene Wilder, George Martin, and Elie Wiesel Scalia and Castro — well, they went to hell
So long, Leonard Cohen Farewell, Harper Lee
Goodbye, Abe Vigoda . . . finally
We lost Garry Shandling, who wasn’t a sick man We lost Alan Thicke, and Alan Rickman
Muhammad Ali is no longer standing And hero John Glenn came in for a landing
Merle Haggard, Ed Albee, and Zsa Zsa Gabor And Fyvush and Blowfly and too many more
But okay, let’s admit the pipeline was stalled The Cubs and the Indians played ball in the fall
The stock market zoomed to new heights every day And Hamilton swept all the Tonys away
Manatees moved from endangered to threatened And a new subway line was built in Manhetten.
So though it was harsh, absurdist, and mean Shalom to the year 2016
The lesson it taught us with every new curse: As bad as things are, they’re bound to get worse.
Happy American Rosh Hashanah everyone! See you in 5778! This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Shanah Tolerable.
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Here is the 586th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 24, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (2016 Farewell), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Chanukah & Christmas, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (noise machines, latkes, The Star Wars Holiday Special, kwanzaa, psoas therapy, not-so-crappy year, Carrie Fisher) 00:59:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:27:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (UNC marching band) 01:35:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News) 02:01:30 Sponsors 02:05:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:30:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later 02:50:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #142 (2016 Farewell) 02:59:00 Friends 03:08:30 Sponsors 03:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah and Christmas 03:32:00 Weather 03:34:00 DAVE GOES OUT
“Good Night but not Goodbye” (00:29:00; “The Star Wars Holiday Special” w/ Bea Arthur). “UNC Fight Song” (01:28:00; University of Northern Colorado marching band).”Fireworks” (01:37:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Broadway cast). “Bad Ambassador” (01:40:00; The Divine Comedy). “Berlin: Black Hole with Taxis” (01:44:00; Passing Strange 2008 Broadway cast). “Evacuation” (01:44:30; Pearl Jam). “Nuclear” (01:47:30; Ryan Adams). “You’re Timeless to Me” (02:26:00; Hairspray 2002 Broadway cast w/ Harvey Fierstein & Dick Latessa). “Once Upon a Time” (02:35:30), “Dear Landlord” (02:39:30) & “O Come All Ye Faithful” (02:42:30; Bob Dylan). “Anal Dreidel” (03:11:30), “The Twelve Complaints of Christmas” (03:18:00) & “Maoz Tzuris” (03:27:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon) “Santa Quits” (03:13:30) & “Santasia” (03:23:00; Dave Lefkowitz). “There’s no Place Like Home for the Holidays” (03:40:30; Leon Redbone).
Dave’s cousin Debra O’Brien and aunt Esther Brower join Dave for the 2016 New Year’s Eve special.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
