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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor PHIL JOHNSON
Topics include: A Jewish Joke, off-Broadway, comedy, The Blacklist, Chicago theater, Withering Heights, jokes.
Segment airs March 16, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Chicago theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge
Topics include: theater, Southern Gothic.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews arts consultant Bill Endsley
Topics include: theater, restaurants, arts, Murakami Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2017 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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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)
Dave Lefkowitz interviews Chicago theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge
Topics include: theater, New Year’s.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2015 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 539th episode–our annual New Year’s Eve special–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Dec. 31, 2015 on UNC Radio.
Featuring: Dave rings in the new year with wife Joyce, aunt Esther Brower, cousin Debra O’Brien, composer Brian Gari, theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge, and friends Wendy Highby, Fred Cleaver, Chuck Turner, plus: The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Miles Davis), Greeley Crimes and Old Times, Rabbi Sol Solomon on the old year.
Guests: composer Brian Gari, theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge (Windy City Times), aunt Esther Brower, cousin Debra O’Brien, friends Wendy Highby, Fred Cleaver, and Chuck Turner.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:03:00 GUEST: Esther Brower 00:10:00 GUEST: Debra O’Brien 15:30:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce 00:30:00 SEGUE – 16 00:42:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:34:00 Friends 01:47:00 SEGUE – End of the Year 02:00:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Miles Davis 02:05:30 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN 02:10:30 GUEST: Brian Gari 02:20:00 GUEST: Mary Shen Barnidge 03:07:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #134 – Farewell 2015 03:22:00 GUESTS: Wendy Highby & Fred Cleaver 03:29:30 GUESTS: Chuck Turner and Julie 03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 31, 2015 Playlist: “Sweet Little Sixteen” (00:31:30; The Beatles). “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” (00:34:00; Neil Sedaka). “Sixteen Candles” (00:36:30). “Auld Lang Syne” ({live radio version}, 01:02:00) & “Auld Lang Syne” (02:02:30; Guy Lombardo). “Stand By Me” (01:14:00; Ben E. King). “Louie Louie” (01:17:00; The Kingsmen). “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows” (01:20:00; Lesley Gore). “That’s How Strong My Love Is” (01:21:30; Percy Sledge). “Dandy” (01:23:30; The Rockin’ Vickers w/ Lemmy). “Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne” (01:47:00; Richard Thompson). “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (01:51:30; Cocteau Twins). “Here is Where the Story Ends” (01:55:00; The Sundays). “16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six” (02:08:00; Tom Waits). “Sweet Sixteen” (02:57:30; B.B. King). “When You were Sweet Sixteen” (03:16:30; Al Jolson). “It was a Very Good Year” ({live at Meadowlands}; 03:47:00; Frank Sinatra).
Esther BrowerDebra O’Brien
Brian Gari
Mary Shen BarnidgeJoyce, Dave, Fred Cleaver, Wendy HighbyChuck Turner
Dave Lefkowitz interviews friends Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby
Topics include: UNC, film, documentaries, Chicago
Segment aired March 7, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 500th Anniversary Special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with theater critic MARY SHEN BARNIDGE
Topics include: Chicago theater, New Year’s Eve
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2014 as part of the annual “Dave’s Gone By” New Year’s Special podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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As part of the show’s annual New Year’s Eve special, host Dave Lefkowitz and his wife Joyce chat with friends Fred Cleaver and Wendy Highby, and their friends Ute, Chuck, Julie Boyle, and Don Koontz. Plus a phone call from Chicago theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge.
Topics include: New Year’s Eve, David Byrne.
Segment aired May 9, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews arts consultant Bill Endsley
