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Dave’s Gone By Interview (2/22/2025): JOEL SAMBERG & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author JOEL SAMBERG

Topics include: Benny Bell, Karen Carpenter, Jackie Jester, writing

Segment aired Feb. 22, 2025 as part of the 978th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #978 (2/22/2025): PLAY IT AGAIN, SAMBERG

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Here is the 978th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 22, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Joel Samberg; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Brick Center); StoryTime: Floridius Bloom; Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (enema).

Guests: novelist Joel Samberg; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:26:00 DAVE GOES OFF: Yankee beards
00:36:30 GREELEY TIMES
01:00:00 GUEST: Joel Samberg & Rabbi Sol Solomon
01:45:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: enema
02:00:00 BUNION WATCH
02:04:30 STORYTIME: Floridius Bloom and the Planet of Gloom
02:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:35:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Brick Center, CO
02:38:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dave’s Gone By Song (11/19/2016): SHAVING CREAM 2016

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Dave’s Gone By Song: SHAVING CREAM 2016

Election-year excreta.

This song first aired Nov. 24, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), Spotify, and on DavesGoneBy.com.

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SHAVING CREAM 2016

(Lyrics: David Lefkowitz. Music: Benjamin Samberg’s (aka Benny Bell’s) “Shaving Cream.”)

I have a sad story to tell you

It may hurt your feelings a bit

The USA held its elections

And stepped in a big pile of

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

Ted Cruz was a loser and then some

He’d always get into a snit

The Democrats thought he was garbage

His own party thought he was

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

They thought Marco Rubio perfect

Hispanic and friendly and fit

But then he behaved like a robot

And Trump came and dumped him in

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

Republicans needed a leader

And they thought that Jeb Bush would fit

But then they remembered his brother

Who gave us all eight years of

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

So Donald and Hillary battled

They sniped back and forth quite a bit

But she assumed people were cattle

Which mired her ground game in

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

The media sneered at the Donald

They called him a Twittering twit

They told him the polls had him losing

He told them to eat their own

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

And now, folks, this country had ended

I think it is time we should quit

The civilized world is upended

And stuffed in a barrel of

Shaving Cream

Be nice and clean

Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

Dave’s Gone By #502 (3/21/2015): SPEAKING FRANK-LY

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Here is the 502nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 21, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Paulette Frankl (“Marcel and Me”). Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Ray Dorset, Benny Bell), Dave’s Gone Cultural (Judy Collins), Dylan – Sooner & Later (All Back Home), Wretched Pun of Destiny (Harry Potter).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: author Paulette Frankl, UNC Radio programming director Matthew Davis, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Matthew Davis & Joyce (new board!),
00:19:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:54:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Paulette Frankl
01:48:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Ray Dorset
02:05:30 Sponsors
02:12:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:36:00 DAVE’S GONE CULTURAL – Judy Collins
02:54:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (All Back Home)
03:12:00 More Sponsors
03:18:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #29 (Harry Potter)
03:24:00 Friends
03:34:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Benny Bell
03:49:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 21, 2015 Playlist: “In the Summertime” (01:49:30), “It’s a Secret” (01:53:30), “Wild Love” (01:56:00) & “Mighty Man” (01:59:00; Mungo Jerry). “Two By Two” (02:32:00; The Book of Mormon 2011 Broadway cast). “Pretty Women” (02:50:30; Judy Collins). “Who Do You Love” (02:59:00; John Hammond, Jr.). “Outlaw Blues” (03:02:00) & “The Gates of Eden” (03:05:00; Bob Dylan). “Girl from Chicago” (03:36:30), “When We were Two Little Boys” (03:39:00), “Moishe Pipick” (03:41:30) & “Yum Yum Yum” (03:44:00; Benny Bell). “Springtime in the Rockies” (03:54:00; Slim Whitman).

Dave’s Gone By #339 (1/15/2011): BELL TOWERS

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Here is the 339th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 15, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: author Joel Samberg (“Grandpa Had a Long One”) & press agent Jonathan Slaff.

Featuring: Dave chats with author Joel Samberg, the grandson of late novelty-song king, Benny Bell. Also: A talk with public relations expert Jonathan Slaff about his years working with Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflections on MLK, and Bob Dylan: “Sooner & Later.”

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:16:00 GUEST: Jonathan Slaff
00:44:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Margaret Whiting & Broadcast
00:56:00 GUEST: Joel Samberg
02:06:00 Sponsors
02:14:00 Bob Dylan: “Sooner & Later”
02:38:00 Contest & Sponsors
02:46:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION (MLK)
02:56:00 Weather
02:59:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: Margaret Whiting
03:00:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 15, 2011 Playlist: “She’s Still Got It” (00:05:30), “Noses Run in My Family” (00:55:30), “Go Take a Ship for Yourself” (01:06:30), “Pincus the Peddler” (01:32:30) & “Everybody Wants My Fanny” (02:00:30) (Benny Bell), “Shaving Cream” Paul Wynn (arr. Benny Bell) (01:23:00). “Come On, Let’s Go” (00:12:30) & “Paper Cuts” (00:47:00; Broadcast). “Time After Time” (00:44:00), “My Foolish Heart” (00:50:30) & “It’s Great to Be Alive” (Margaret Whiting; 03:01:00). “Mama, You Been On My Mind” (02:14:30), “Tough Mama” (02:17:30), “See That My Grave is Kept Clean” (02:21:30), “Belle Isle” (02:24:00), “Moonlight” (02:27:00), “Silver Bells” (02:30:00) & “Ring Them Bells” (02:32:30) (Bob Dylan). “A Tribute to a King” (02:51:30; William Bell).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/15/2011): JOEL SAMBERG

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Benny Bell’s grandson, author Joel Samberg

Topics include: novelty music, Benny Bell, Shaving Cream.

Segment originally aired Jan. 15, 2011 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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