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Dave’s Gone By #365 (10/29/2011): BLACK OUT, BROWN IN

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Here is the 365th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Oct. 29, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: singer-songwriter Pieta Brown

Featuring: Dave chats with singer-songwriter Pieta Brown. Plus: Saturday Segues about darkness and Halloween, Inside Broadway (reviews of The Mountaintop and Relatively Speaking), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (darkness) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the blackout.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:30 DAVE GOES OFF on Xcel
00:16:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Darkness
00:46:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Barry Feinstein
00:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:51:00), The Mountaintop (00:58:30), Relatively Speaking (01:05:30))
01:18:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #27: the Blackout
01:46:30 Weather & Sponsors
01:57:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: darkness
02:36:00 GUEST: Pieta Brown
03:01:30 Thanks Yous & Friends w/ Joyce Weil
03:10:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Oct. 29, 2011 Playlist: “Beware of Darkness” (00:16:30; Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs); “Dear Darkness” (00:20:00; PJ Harvey); “Blackout” (00:23:00; Muse); “Darkness Descends” (00:27:30; Laura Marling); “Blackout” (live) (31:00; David Bowie); “Dark Night Blues” (00:35:00; Blind Willie McTell); “Darkness” (00:38:00; Jenifer Jackson); “Blackout” (00:41:30; Anna Calvi); “When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy” (01:22:30; Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band); “When We are a Vampire” (01:28:00; Jane Siberry); “Zombie” (01:30:30; Fela 2010 Bway cast); “November Spawned a Monster” (01:35:00; Morrissey); “Werewolves of London” (01:40:00; Warren Zevon); “Day of the Locusts” (01:58:00) “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” (02:02:00); “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” (02:11:30) & “Father of Night” (02:15:00; Bob Dylan); “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (02:07:30; Antony & the Johnsons); “Mercury” (02:21:00), “Butterfly Blues” (02:24:30), “Be With You” (02:28:00), “I Don’t Mind” (02:30:30), “So Many Miles” (02:34:30), “I Want it Back” (02:55:30) & “Closing Time” (03:14:00; Pieta Brown).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/22/2011): JASON GRAAE

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews actor and singer Jason Graae

Topics include: Broadway, cabaret, Jerry Herman, Olympus on My Mind.

Segment originally aired Oct. 22, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/22/2011): BARB JUNGR

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer Barb Jungr

Topics include: cabaret, Bob Dylan

Segment originally aired Oct. 22, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By #364 (10/22/2011): JUNGR & GRAAETER

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Here is the 364th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 22, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: singer Barb Jungr and actor-singer Jason Graae

Featuring: Dave chats with singer Barb Jungr and actor-singer Jason Graae. Plus: a Saturday Segue remembering Bert Jansch and Jagjit Singh, Inside Broadway (reviews of Intringulis and Follies), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflections on Occupy Wall Street.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:31:00 GUEST: Barb Jungr
01:24:00 Sponsors
01:35:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Bert Jansch
01:45:00 GUEST: Jason Graae
02:22:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (Follies (02:22:00) & Intringulis (02:37:00))
02:44:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #26: Occupied
02:52:00 DAVE – Friends & Weather
02:58:30 DAVE GOES OUT
02:59:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Jagjit Singh

October 22, 2011 Playlist: “Things Have Changed” (00:09:30), “Sara” (00:14:30), “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (00:19:30), “Sugar Baby” (00:23:30), “Blind Willie McTell” (00:40:30), “Man in the Long Black Coat” (01:09:00) & “Forever Young” (01:19:30; Barb Jungr); “Come Sing Me A Happy Song to Prove We Can All Get Along the Lumpy Bumpy Long and Dusty Road” (01:22:30), “The Bright New Year” (01:37:00), “Alman” (01:41:00) & “Tree Song” (01:42:30) (Bert Jansch); “No Love is Sorrow” (01:38:30; Pentangle); “You I Like” (01:45:00), “It Only Takes a Moment/Loving You” (02:05:30) & “I Promise You a Happy Ending” (02:19:00) (Jason Graae); “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs” (02:22:00; Follies, 1998 Paper Mill cast); “Don’t Look at Me” (02:35:00; Follies in Concert); “Sarakti Jaye Hain Rukh Se Naqab Ahista Ahista” (03:02:30; Jagjit Singh).

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #25 (10/2/2011): Days of Awe

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #25 (10/2/2011): Days of Awe

Aired Oct. 1, 2011 on Dave’s Gone By. YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkNjq0IwyUU

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 2nd, 2011.

He’s making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice – not Santa Claus; I’m talkin’ about God. This is the time of year when HaShem opens his great big book. And I don’t mean “Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Borscht.” I mean the book of life and death, the book where God inscribes your name for the year. If he writes your name in bold calligraphy, you’re gonna have a fabulous year ahead. If he scribbles your name in pencil and deliberately spells it wrong, you better get health insurance. And if he erases it or just puts your initials in the margin, you might want to go shopping for a good mausoleum.

These are the Days of Awe, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We call them the Days of Awe because we look at all the crappy things we’ve done and go, “awwwww.” This is a time of reflection, expiation and making amends. If you’ve cheated somebody, or told a hurtful falsehood, or threatened to kick somebody’s tuchas because they won’t let your nine year old be in the school play (even though she’s perfect for it, and she can act rings around that little blonde whore they got for the part because her parents donate ten thousand dollars a year to the school’s PTA fund… bastards!), you need to take a breath, acknowledge that you may have overreacted (even if you haven’t) and apologize to those you have disparaged, and to HaShem for your prideful behavior.

Unlike the Catholics, who do so much sinning they have to confess every week, Jews save up all their misdeeds to talk about them one day a year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On this day, we say, “I’m sorry” to God and to everyone we have offended. Granted, there’s some absurdity there, because you’re not allowed to bathe, put on deodorant or use mouthwash, which means if you go to synagogue on Yom Kippur, you’re offending everybody.

In the shul, the cantor sings “Kol Nidre,” a prayer in which we ask God not to take us seriously. Seriously! We tell HaShem, “Look, over the course of the year, we’re gonna make some pretty stupid promises. At a traffic stop, we’ll say, `God, if this patrolman lets me off with a warning, I’ll donate what the ticket would have cost to charity.’ Or we’ll think, `If this dentist would just stop giving me pain, I’ll stop wishing to see him thrown from a tall building onto a steal spike.’ Or we’ll say, `If I could only get this raise, I’ll stop stealing office supplies.’” We won’t. And God knows we won’t. And we know God knows we won’t. So we sing “Kol Nidre” to him to let ourselves off the hook: “God, anything we vow to do over the next 12 months, ehhhh..not gonna happen. So please don’t listen. Put on your iPod. Just nod and wink and realize we’re gonna be back here in a year apologizing for shit we did that we said we wouldn’t, and stuff we didn’t do that we promised we would. And when you write my name in big block letters, remember it’s Solomon with one `L’ and three `O’s.’”

I hope, dear listeners, that we are all inscribed in the book of life and that we don’t do anything to jeopardize that status. After all, these days I’m sure God is using an e-book, so if we’re bad, all he has to do is backspace. At least the Days of Awe allow us to…re-Kindle.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/1/2011): BONNIE FRANKLIN

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress Bonnie Franklin

Topics include: One Day at a Time, Applause, Broadway, theater, TV.

Segment originally aired Oct. 1, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Bonnie Franklin, passed March 1, 2013.

Complete Original Broadcast: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4345

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/1/2011): GREG KIHN

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews musician and radio host Greg Kihn

Topics include: Greg Kihn band, radio, MTV.

Segment originally aired Oct. 1, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By #363 (10/1/2011): KIHN FOLK

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Here is the 363rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Oct. 1, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: actress Bonnie Franklin, musician Greg Kihn

Featuring: Dave chats with actress Bonnie Franklin and musician and author Greg Kihn. Plus: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (paint) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Jewish Days of Awe.

Note: Bonnie Franklin passed March 1, 2013.

00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN
00:17:30 GUEST: Bonnie Franklin
01:05:00 Sponsors
01:19:30 GUEST: Greg Kihn
02:00:00 Weather
02:03:00 BOB DYLAN: Sooner & Later – “When He Paints…”
02:41:00 Sponsors
02:44:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Days of Awe
02:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news)
02:56:00 Friends
03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT

October 1, 2011 Playlist: “Do What You Gotta Do” (00:10:00), “Wherever There’s Smoke” (01:30:00), “Jeopardy” (01:16:00), “The Break-Up Song” (01:53:00) & “Little Red Book” (01:57:30; Greg Kihn); “Applause” (00:13:30) & “She’s No Longer a Gypsy” (01:02:00; Applause, 1970 Bway cast w/ Bonnie Franklin); “When I Paint My Masterpiece” (02:07:00), “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” (02:10:30), “Desolation Row” (live) (02:16:00), “I Shall Be Free” (Demo) (02:24:30), “She Belongs to Me” (live) (02:29:00) & “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (excerpt, 02:31:00), “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (live 1975) (02:35:30; Bob Dylan); “Great Big Love” (03:04:00; Bruce Cockburn).