Dave Lefkowitz chats with his dad, PHILIP LEFKOWITZ
Topics include: dad’s birthday.
Segment aired Feb. 23, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021.
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Here is the 413th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 23, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
A pre-Oscar show featuring Rabbi Sol Solomon chatting with Hollywood expert Stephen Schochet and with Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (Purim jokes), Inside Broadway, the News Gone By, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later and a Saturday Segue dedicated to recent passings in music.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: author Stephen Schochet, Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz
00:00:01 PRE-SHOW 00:07:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:17:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Passings 01:00:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:00:00) & “Madea Gets a Job” review (01:22:30)) 01:33:00 Sponsors 01:41:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Stephen Schochet 02:19:00 NEWS GONE BY 02:26:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #58: More Purim Jokes 02:33:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (movies) 02:57:00 Friends 03:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Philip Lefkowitz 03:25:30 Weather 03:27:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 23, 2013 Playlist: “The Birthday Present” (00:05:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “The Saints” (00:20:00), “My Bonnie” (00:29:30), “Why” (00:36:00) & “Nobody’s Child” (00:48:00; Tony Sheridan & the Beatles). “Leader of the Pack” (00:22:00) & “Remember” (Walking in the Sand)” (00:34:00; The Shangri-Las). “Midnight Blues” (00:25:00) & “The Sky is Crying” (00:39:00; Magic Slim). “A Girl’s Gotta Do What a Girl’s Gotta Do” (00:31:30) & “You’ll Never Know” (00:44:30; Mindy McCready). “A Beautiful Morning” (01:10:30; The Rascals). “The Color Purple (Reprise)” (01:18:30; The Color Purple Broadway cast). “Life Can Be Like the Movies” (01:39:30; Chaplin, 2012 Broadway cast). “If You were in My Movie” (02:16:00; Suzanne Vega). “Things Have Changed” (02:34:00), “Hero Blues” (02:39:00), “Clean Cut Kid” (02:40:30) & “Brownsville Girl” (Bob Dylan). “Prisoners of Love” (03:22:30; “The Producers” (1969 film soundtrack).
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Here is the 412th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 16, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: A pre-President’s Day show with Saturday Segues (presidents, Yoko Ono), Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (shooting stars), News Gone By and Rabbi Sol Solomon on the Pope’s retirement.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:09:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Presidents (Part 1) 00:36:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 00:55:30 Sponsors 01:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Yoko Ono 01:40:30 Weather 01:41:30 NEWS GONE BY 01:52:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (shooting stars) 02:31:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #57 – Pope Benedict Resigns 02:40:30 Friends 02:47:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Presidents (Part 2) 03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 16, 2013 Playlist: “Young Americans” (00:10:00; David Bowie). “On the Nickel” (00:15:00; Tom Waits). “Who Needs the Peace Corps?” (00:21:30). “Arthur” (The Kinks; 00:24:00). “Burn On” (Randy Newman; 00:29:00). “Poppa Knows Best” (Two By Two 1970 Bway cast w/ Danny Kaye; 00:52:00). “Yang Yang” (01:11:00), “What a Mess” (01:14:30), “Listen the Snow is Falling” (01:17:00), “I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window” (01:20:30), “Toyboat” (01:28:00), “A Story” (01:31:30) & “We’re All Water” (01:34:00) & “Hard Times are Over” (03:13:30; Yoko Ono). “The Ballad of John and Yoko (The Beatles w/ John Lennon; 01:25:00). “I Had to Kill that Rabbit” (01:48:00; Tom Paxton). “Changing of the Guards” (01:53:00), “Union Sundown” (01:59:30), “Desolation Row” (02:05:00), “Romance in Durango” ({live 1975}; 02:16:30) & “Shooting Star” ({live MTV Unplugged version; 02:21:30; Bob Dylan). “Mr. Wilson” (02:47:00; John Cale). “Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy” (“Once” {film soundtrack w/ Glen Hansard}; 02:50:30). “Captain Kennedy” (Nikki Sudden; 02:51:30). “The Campaigner” (02:55:30; Neil Young). “Famous Blue Raincoat” (02:59:00; Tori Amos). “The Dreaming” (03:04:00; Kate Bush).
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #56 (2/10/2013): Valentine’s Day
aired February 9th, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/yK-2Mmg9-yk
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of February 10th, 2013.
Would you be my Valentine? Actually, you’re wise if you wouldn’t. St. Valentine, upon whom the Valentine’s Day holiday is kind of, sort of, not exactly really based, was a possibly apocryphal figure – well, all the saints were apocryphal to Yids like me. But if you’re a goy, and you believe in such stories, St. Valentine was one of two things: He was either a composite of a couple of different saints because he was so undistinguished as a saint himself. Or he was a good guy, a hard-working believer – who was clubbed to death and martyred on February 14th. Either way, who the hell wants to be him?
As for Valentine’s Day itself, very likely it was the Catholic Church’s response to a pagan celebration – the feast of Lupercal. Personally, I think Sustacal and Metrecal are more slimming. But the point is, the church couldn’t have some idolatrous holiday interfering with their practice, so like Halloween and Christmas, they morphed the comical into something canonical.
How did hearts and cupids and $180 Zales receipts creep into it? I have no idea, but I’m glad they did, because it makes Valentine’s Day a holiday everyone can celebrate. That human beings need an excuse to express affection is a sad thing. But if one day of the year, you can turn to your partner or spouse or well-paid escort and say, “I love you. Thank you for all you bring to my life. Please pick up some rye bread on the way home.” That’s a beautiful thing.
I realize that for those who are alone and lonely, Valentine’s can be a hollow holiday indeed. Seeing all those Hallmark cards in the Rite Aid, watching couples on the street holding hands, watching couples in porn holding glands, and finding 2-for-1 restaurant coupons in the Sunday paper, then wondering if it’s worth the embarrassment to go solo and put the second entrée in a doggie bag.
My single friends, I feel your pain. It’s just below the ribcage and spasms uncontrollably, but it’s okay, I’m on medication. The solution for everyone is to not look at Valentine’s Day as just for romantic couples. It’s for everyone who has loved you or you have loved in the course of your travels: family, neighbors, pets, inflatable dolls with lifelike genitalia. As Stephen Stills once put it, “Love the one you’re with.” Just make sure you have warm towels and a disinfectant.
And let us not forget that Valentine’s Day now has a whole other context thanks to The Vagina Monologues. Eve Ensler’s play about women and their nether parts became a global phenomenon. And now, February 14th is a day to protest violence and abuse against women, for women themselves to take pride in their achievements, and, of course, for us all to pay tribute to those hairy little pusselehs.
So let this and every Valentine’s Day be not just about $70 restaurants and 7-11 roses, but mutual appreciation. A day of smiles, and hugs, and thank yous and vaginas. If you’re lucky, not necessarily in that order.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Martin Charnin, Broadway director and lyricist
Topics include: the York Theater Company’s revival of Two By Two and the Broadway revival of Annie.
Segment originally aired Feb. 9, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Martin Charnin, passed July 7, 2019 at age 84.
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Here is the 411th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 9, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Broadway director and lyricist Martin Charnin (Annie, Two By Two); a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration with love songs, hate songs, Dylan songs, and Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on the holiday; Inside Broadway; Dave Says Bye to Reg Presley of The Troggs.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Martin Charnin
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:15:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Love Songs 00:46:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Martin Charnin 01:45:30 Sponsors 01:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:05:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Valentine’s Day) 02:39:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #056 – Valentine’s Day 02:43:30 DAVE SAYS BYE to Reg Presley 02:56:00 Friends 03:01:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Hate Songs 03:19:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 9, 2013 Playlist: “Silver & Gold” (00:16:00; Neil Young). “Me About You” (00:19:00; The Turtles). “Kiss” (00:21:30; Richard Thompson). “I Live for You” (00:25:30; George Harrison). “True Love Leaves No Traces” (00:29:00; Leonard Cohen). “Stay in Touch” (00:33:30; Joni Mitchell). “Love Colours” (00:36:30; The Pretenders). “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” (00:46:30), “Tomorrow” (01:23:00) & “Maybe” (01:34:00) (Annie, 1999 TV film). “Ninety Again” (01:00:00), “An Old Man” (01:08:00) & “Two By Two” (01:40:00; Two By Two, 1970 Broadway cast w/ Danny Kaye & Joan Copeland). “Annie Ain’t Just Annie Anymore” (01:30:00; Annie Warbucks, off-Broadway cast). “Betrayed” (02:01:30; Lou Reed). “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (02:06:30), “I Want You” ({live at Budokan version}; 02:10:00), “Sara” (02:12:30), “I’m in the Mood for You” (02:18:00), “Lay Lady Lay” (02:21:00), “Wedding Song” (02:24:00) & “This Dream of You” (02:29:00; Bob Dylan). “Love is All Around” (02:43:30), “I Want You” (02:46:00), “Any Way You Want Me” (02:48:30), “Wild Thing” (02:51:00; The Troggs w/ Reg Presley). “I Don’t Really Love You Anymore” (03:04:00; The Magnetic Fields). “Living Without You” (03:06:30; Randy Newman). “Can’t We Be Friends” (03:09:00; Frank Sinatra). “Old Maid in the Garrett” (The Clancy Brothers; 03:11:30). “I’m Thru with Love” (03:14:00; Nat King Cole). “Green Valentine Blues” (03:24:00; Allen Ginsberg).
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #55 (2/3/2013): Oldies but Goodies
Aired February 2nd, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rWYhZ0sCBo
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of February 3rd, 2013.
We are such a disposable society, any story – from a terrible flood to a bear lumbering into a shopping center – any event is good for two news cycles, and then it’s on to the next. We had a fiscal cliff – “Oy, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal cliff!” Until some lunatic shot up a dayschool. Then it was “gun control, gun control, gun control!” Until next week, when it’s – Oh, I dunno, Chris Brown beating Rihanna again.
And the old 15 minutes of fame is now four minutes. Unless it’s an embarrassing or criminal kind of fame, in which case you get a show on VH-1 and live in perpetuity on Vimeo.
Our cultural motto is “What have you done for me lately?” And if lately is more than six months ago, we don’t even stay for the answer. So it’s heartening to find to find one trend bucking the trend. (And if you’ve ever had your trend bucked, you know just how pleasurable that can be.) The trend is for dinosaurs to roam the earth again. And by dinosaurs, I mean the great rock-and-roll stars of the `60’s.
When the entertainment community sought a charitable response to Hurricane Sandy, whom did they turn to? This week’s flavor of the month? No. Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, The Who. People whose combined ages would make Methuselah go, “Damn, they’re getting up there.”
At the benefit, Sir Paul rocked out with the members of Nirvana who weren’t driven to suicide by their wives. The Rolling Stones played two songs – which doesn’t sound like a lot, but in concert, that’d be 85 dollars worth right there. And then you had The Who – who reminded us how lucky Horton was to hear them. Yes, Roger Daltrey’s bare chest looked like the underside of a roasted ham, but the rest of him rocked out. And nobody does a windmill like Pete Townshend. Well, maybe the Dutch.
Anyhoo, around the same time, all the members of Led Zeppelin who didn’t drink 40 consecutive shots of Absolut were making the talk-show circuit with a DVD. Neil Young was putting out new music with Crazy Horse, David Bowie was finishing up a new album, and Paul Simon’s planning an Australian tour.
And yet there are grumblers who say that these people are all past their prime and should have retired long ago. Their voices are shot, all their best songs are three decades old, and fans are paying big bucks for diminished returns. In many cases this is true. If you go see Bob Dylan on his never-ending tour, you’re not getting 1966 electric Dylan and the Band; you’re getting 2013 eccentric Dylan and the bland. But that’s not just a function of age. Bob Dylan’s been giving shitty concerts since 1978. And 20, 30 years ago, a bad night could be infuriating. But now?
Is it enough to just see Zimmerman stand there onstage, mumble through a dozen classics and then give everyone hearing damage from his overmiked harmonica? You’re damn right it’s enough, because he’s still here, and we’re lucky to have him. Same with all these groups. If the Rolling Stones can’t make another “Goat’s Head Soup” – because they don’t have enough teeth to chew goat meat anymore; if David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust rises and falls – and can’t get up; if Leonard Cohen sings “Hallelujah” because he made it to the toilet before soiling his Huggies; if Paul McCartney sings “Help!” less often than he presses his Life Alert for help, if Neil Young has a heart of gold – and a hip of titanium; it’s still nice when they make albums. It’s what they do.
Retirement comes hard to artists, especially if they don’t want to become an oldies act, or even if they do. I guess patient zero in this case history is Frank Sinatra. By his final concerts, he was forgetting lyrics, repeating songs, stumbling over the fine line between indulgence and embarrassment. But ask anybody who went if they’d have missed a second of it. If they wouldn’t gladly sit through 90 minutes of, “Well, that’s what he’s like now” to be reminded for just five, “ahh, that’s what he was like then.”
So hail to the dinosaurs who walk among us. If their joints creak a little when they stomp, well, so do mine. And if they wanna make a little more noise before they go extinct, that’s not a shame, it’s a gift. With all due respect to Neil Young, the great ones don’t have to burn out or fade away. Just play.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
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Here is the 410th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 2, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave offers a pre-Super Bowl Saturday Segue and a Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later segment for the big game. Plus: Dave Says Bye to Major Koch; Dave Goes Off on fortune cookies; Inside Broadway; Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Oldies but Goodies); a Bob Marley tribute.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Super Bowl 00:41:30 Sponsors 00:49:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:06:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Fortune Cookies 01:23:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Mayor Ed Koch 01:50:00 Weather 01:52:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #54 – Oldies but Goodies 01:59:30 BOB DYLAN: Sooner & Later – The Super Bowl 02:35:00 NEWS GONE BY 02:46:00 Friends 02:50:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Bob Marley 03:04:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 2, 2013 Playlist: “I Wish I was in New Orleans” (00:12:00; Tom Waits). “Baltimore Fire” (00:16:30; Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Loudon Wainwright). “San Francisco Blues” (00:19:30; The Weavers). “Raven” (00:24:00; Jewel). “Clementine” (Neil Young; 00:28:00). “Because All Men are Brothers” (00:33:30; Peter, Paul & Mary). “Children of Paradise” (01:01:30; Boney M). “Tales from the Hood” (01:40:30; Nas). “The Only Living Boy in New York” (01:44:30; Simon and Garfunkel). “Running Out the Clock” (02:02:00; Tim Heidecker). “Who Killed Davey Moore?” (02:05:30), “Days of 49” (02:08:30), “Arthur McBride” (02:16:30), “Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence” (02:23:00), “I Shall Be Free” ({Witmark Demos version}, 02:27:00; Bob Dylan). “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” (Joan Baez; 02:14:00). “It’s All in the Game” (02:42:00; The Four Tops). “Lively Up Yourself” (02:51:30), “The Heathen” (02:54:30), “Three Little Birds” (02:57:00), “Sun is Shining” (03:00:00), “Redemption Song” (03:08:30; Bob Marley).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with British playwright and director Ray Cooney (Run for Your Wife, Funny Money).
Topics include: writing farce and the film version of Run for Your Wife.
Segment originally aired Jan. 26, 2013 on 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 on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
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Here is the 409th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 26, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright Ray Cooney(Run for Your Wife, Funny Money) and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the Algerian crisis. Plus: Inside Broadway (Drood), the satirical News Gone By, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Ray), and birthday Saturday Segues.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: playwright Ray Cooney
00:00:01 Pre-show intro 00:03:30 DAVE GOES IN 00:12:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Sarah, Lucinda & Margo 00:51:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:51:30) & review (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) 01:21:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ray Cooney 02:01:30 Sponsors 02:06:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Ray) 02:41:00 NEWS GONE BY 02:48:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #54 (The Battle of Algiers) 02:54:30 Weather & Friends 02:59:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Cantor & Channing 03:13:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 26, 2013 Playlist: “Something About What Happens When We Talk” (00:12:30), “Drunken Angel” (00:25:00) & “Sweet Old World” (00:36:00; Lucinda Williams). “Blue Guitar” (00:16:00), “Miles from Our Home” (00:28:00) & “Sweet Jane” (00:40:3 0; Cowboy Junkies), “Blue” (00:22:00), “Fallen” (00:33:00) & “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” (00:44:00; Sarah McLachlan). “All I Ask of You” (01:00:00; The Phantom of the Opera (orig London cast w/ Michael Crawford). “Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead” (01:18:00; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1985 Broadway cast). “Caribbean Wind” (02:08:00), “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” (02:14:00), “Standing in the Doorway” (02:25:30) & “Floater” (02:33:00; Bob Dylan). “Gotta Serve Somebody” (02:19:30; Shirley Caesar). “Turning of the Tide” (02:45:00; Bob Mould). “Before the Parade Passes By” (03:03:00; Hello, Dolly!, 1964 Broadway cast w/ Carol Channing). “My Baby Just Cares for Me” (03:06:30) & “Makin’ Whoopee!” (03:11:00; Eddie Cantor). “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (03:08:00; Carol Channing). “Mad Rush” (Philip Glass).
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