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Dave’s Gone By #451 (12/31/2013): UNC RADIO NEW YEAR SPECIAL – Hello 2014!

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Here is the 451st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio Dec. 31, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave and his wife, Joyce, ring in the new year with music and special guests.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Dave’s wife Joyce, songwriter Brian Gari, theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (fitbit)
00:12:00 GUEST: Brian Gari
00:25:30 Dave & Joyce (JF, New Year’s, TV specials, resolutions)
01:17:00 More Dave & Joyce (Das Balaton Combo, the year behind, Dave’s finger)
01:41:30 Even More Dave & Joyce
01:59:00 GUEST: Mary Shen Barnidge
02:46:30 Dave & Joyce return
02:51:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #86 – New Year 2014
03:00:00 Happy New Year
03:13:00 Upcoming
03:16:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 31, 2013 Playlist: “Makin’ Whoopee” (00:29:00; Eddie Cantor). “After Midnight” (00:32:00; Eric Clapton). “The Message” (00:52:00; Grand Master Flash). “Voices Carry” (01:03:30; `Til Tuesday). “Having a Party” (01:08:00; Sam Cooke). “Party Doll” (01:10:00; Buddy Knox). “Party Buli” (01:12:00; Das Balaton Combo). “The Old Horse of Nations Tea Party” (01:33:30; Sexton Ming & Billy Childish). “House of Fun” (01:35:00; Madness). “Legalize It” (01:38:00; Peter Tosh). “Rock and Roll Heart” (01:54:00) & “Satellite of Love” (01:57:00; Lou Reed). “It’s All in the Game” (02:29:00; Slim Whitman). “You Belong to Me” (02:31:00; Patti Page). “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (2:34:00; Andrews Sisters). “For the Good Times” (2:37:00; Ray Price). “I Always Get Lucky with You” (2:40:30; George Jones). “It was a Very Good Year” (02:44:00; Richie Havens). “New Year’s Eve” (02:54:30; Tom Waits). “Auld Lang Syne” (03:00:00; Guy Lombardo). “Starting Over” (03:03:00; John Lennon). “Dreaming” (03:06:00; Blondie). “Laugh and Be Happy” (03:09:00; Randy Newman). “Heroes” ({live “Stage” version}; 03:25:00; David Bowie).

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #086 (12/29/2013): New Year 2014

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aired Dec 29, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/kCb-wFiJvIQ

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 29th, 2013.

Boy, this year really bit the big one, didn’t it? You had the bombing at the Boston Marathon, flooding in Colorado, civil war in Egypt and Syria, the spying nonsense with Edward Snowdon… And let’s not forget the whole government shutting down because Republicans are Machiavellian and miserable, and Democrats are stubborn and stupid.

2013 wasn’t a terrible year. It wasn’t 1941 or 2001 or the year I had my gallstones out.

Still, everyone I know had a lousy time of it. Deaths in the family, illnesses, accidents, bad luck and bad news. The good part is: it’s over, and we’re still here. No matter how crappy and ignominious your year was, you still came out better than Peter O’Toole, Lou Reed and Nelson Mandela.

And, of course, there’s always the hope that next year will be better. At Passover, we all say, “Next year in Jerusalem!” Or, more realistically, Boca Raton. “L’Shana Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim” doesn’t just mean we’d rather be in the Holy Land than Weehawken, New Jersey. It means we hope that a year from now, we’ll find ourselves in a better place where we’ll be happier. Yes, that’s as likely as the Jets winning another Super Bowl, but we hope anyway.

For the Jewish New Year, we dip an apple in honey to represent sweeter times ahead, and we blow the ram’s horn because in ancient times, they didn’t have saxophones. All these things are meant to signal a new beginning, a clearing out of the dust and schmutz of the previous year, and starting the next annum with fresh breath and a snazzy hat. Or snazzy breath and a fresh hat; your choice.

For this Western New Year, crazy people will stand for hours in Times Square to usher in 2014. This, I don’t understand. If I want to see a ball drop, I’ll look in the mirror when I take off my underpants. But there’s something to be said for a communal, brotherhoody way to exit one train and hop another. And if standing around, drinking Coors Light from a sack, huddling for warmth and peeing into your Depends works for some folks, who am I to say no?

Me? I’ll be home with my dear wife, Miriam Libby, our 21 ½ beautiful children, my TV fixed on the “Honeymooners” channel, and my wine glass full of schnapps and Metamucil. I look forward to greeting you all next year, same time, same place, different grievances. L’Shana Haba’ah B’Radio, B’Youtube, B’Twitter and B’Wildered.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By #450 (12/28/2013): PS I LOVE YOU

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Here is the 450th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 28, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with singer and record producer Philip Chaffin. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (13/14, Christine Lavin), Dylan – Sooner & Later (insurance), Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on the year gone by.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: singer Philip Chaffin, Dave’s wife Joyce.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (end of the year, numerical milestones, xmas food, cast recordings, pancake party)
01:00:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (13/14)
01:24:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & Top Stories of 2013)
01:56:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Philip Chaffin
03:02:30 Sponsors
03:08:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Insurance
03:30:00 Friends
03:37:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #86: New Year 2014
03:40:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Christine Lavin
03:59:30 Weather & Upcoming
04:03:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 28, 2013 Playlist: “Thirteen” (01:00:30; Big Star). “The 13th (Swing Version)” (01:03:00; The Cure). “Thirteenth Mountain” (01:07:00; Bruce Cockburn). “Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods” (01:11:30; Beck). “14th Street Blues” (01:14:30; Leon Redbone). “14th Street” (01:17:30; Rufus Wainwright). “Finale” (01:51:00; Dear World, 1969 Broadway cast). “Diga Diga Doo” (01:53:00), “A Cow and a Plough and a Frau” (02:50:00) & “Somethin’ Real Special” (02:58:30; Philip Chaffin). “The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues” (02:10:30; Follies 2011 Broadway cast w/ Danny Burstein). “Around the World” (02:35:30; Grey Gardens 2006 Bway cast w/ Christine Ebersole). “Folies Bergere” (02:41:30; Nine 2003 Bway cast w/ Chita Rivera). “It’s All Right Ma, I’m Only Bleeding” ({live “Before the Flood” version}; 03:10:00), “Clean Cut Kid” (03:15:30) & “Desolation Row” ({live MTV Unplugged version}; 03:19:30; Bob Dylan). “Nobody’s Fat in Aspen” (03:40:30), “Rockaway” (03:44:00), “If I Ruled the World” (03:48:00), “Gettin’ Used to Leavin’ (03:52:30) & “Scatter New Seeds” (04:07:00; Christine Lavin).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/21/2013): LARRY KAYE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Broadway producer Larry Kaye of HOP Theatricals

Topics include: theater, Broadway, The Velocity of Autumn.

Segment aired Dec. 21, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/28/2013): PHILIP CHAFFIN and Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer and PS Classics co-founder Philip Chaffin

Topics include: Broadway, musicals, PS Classics, Tommy Krasker, Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs, Nine, Ray Conniff.

Segment aired Dec. 21, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #449 (12/21/2013): OH, KAYE

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Here is the 449th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 21, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with theatrical producer Larry Kaye; Inside Broadway; Saturday Segue (Frank Zappa); Dylan – Sooner & Later (Xmas); Rabbi Sol on the passings of 2013.

Guests: producer Larry Kaye, Dave’s wife, Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (BYOC, TV Trade-In, Velocity, Sponsors, Going Gaga)
01:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Zappa
01:38:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & obits (01:52:00))
01:59:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Larry Kaye
02:55:00 Sponsors
02:57:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Xmas)
03:18:30 Weather
03:22:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #85 – The Passings of 2013
03:49:00 Thanks & Friends
03:53:30 Upcoming
03:56:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 21, 2013 Playlist: “Applause” (00:56:00; Lady Gaga). “Little House I Used to Live In” (01:13:30), “Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus” (01:18:00), “How Could I Be Such a Fool” (01:22:30), “Would You Like a Snack” (01:25:30), “Sharleena” (01:26:00) & “Sofa No. 1” (01:30:00; Frank Zappa). “I Was a Teenage Maltshop” (01:21:00; Captain Beefheart & Frank Zappa). “I Wanna Be a Producer” (01:57:00; The Producers 2001 Bway cast w/Matthew Broderick). “Brotherhood of Man” (02:17:30; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2010 Bway cast w/ Daniel Radcliffe). “Christmas Island” (02:58:30), “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (03:01:00), “Arthur McBride” (03:04:00), “She Belongs to Me” (03:10:00) & “Must Be Santa” (03:13:30; Bob Dylan). “Santa Quits” (03:32:30; Dave Lefkowitz). “The Twelve Complaints of Christmas” (03:37:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “The Only Thing I Want for Christmas” (03:58:00; Eddie Cantor).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/14/2013): CAROL LAWRENCE and Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Carol Lawrence

Topics include: West Side Story, Handle with Care, Robert Goulet, Saratoga, Shangri-La, Mickey Katz.

Segment aired Dec. 14, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #448 (12/14/2013): OH, CAROL

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Here is the 448th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 14, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with actress Carol Lawrence; Inside Broadway; Saturday Segue (Spike Jones); Dylan – Sooner & Later (Wright Flight).

Guests: actress Carol Lawrence, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (swants, wrestling options, real singing)
00:53:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Spike Jones
01:20:30 Sponsors
01:23:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:39:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carol Lawrence
02:39:00 More Sponsors
02:42:00 Friends
02:50:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Wright Flight)
03:20:00 Weather
03:22:30 Upcoming
03:27:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 14, 2013 Playlist: “Cocktails for Two” (00:58:00), “I Dream of Brownie with the Light Blue Jeans” (01:01:00), “Holiday for Strings” (01:04:00), “Der Fuehrer’s Face” (01:07:00), “The Great Big Saw Came Nearer and Nearer” (01:09:30), “Jones Polka” (01:12:30) & “As Time Goes By” (03:29:00; Spike Jones). “Here Come the Fleece Geese” (01:37:00; Sexton Ming & Billy Childish). “Come Away with Me” (01:40:00) & “Warm All Over” (01:56:30; Carol Lawrence). “She’ll Be Coming `Round the Katzkills” (01:46:00; Mickey Katz). “I Feel Pretty” (02:06:00) & “Tonight” (02:34:00; West Side Story 1957 Broadway cast). “Saratoga” (02:13:30; Saratoga 1959 Bway cast). “Girls Like Me” (02:17:00; Subways are for Sleeping). “Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)” (02:53:00), “Jet Pilot” (02:56:30), “One More Weekend” (03:00:00), “You’re a Big Girl Now” ({live Hard Rain version}; 03:03:30; Bob Dylan). “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Al Right” (02:57:00; Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons). “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova).