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Dave’s Gone By Interview (9/26/2026): UTE LEMPER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (9/26/2026): UTE LEMPER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

International actress and songstress Ute Lemper returns to the Daverhood.

Topics include: Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Weill, Germany, the Holocaust, Mothers.

Segment airs Sept. 26, 2026 as part of episode #1049 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast 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: shalomdammit.com

INDEX to SONGS – List & Links

Hi folks! Here are audio archives and written lyrics of original songs performed on DAVE’S GONE BY.

All material is copyright protected by the author, as noted.

As Rears Go By
(see listing under “The Pervert’s Song”)

The Bagel Boat Song
(8/1/2012) Joined by percussionist Richard Shore, Rabbi Sol Solomon ends his stage show, Shalom Dammit!, with this ode to Jewish customs.
Bagel Boat Song / Archive.org / youtube

Big Boobs (The Bryon Noem Song)
(4/4/2026) The South Dakota Governor’s husband has a big pair. No, not those.
Big Boobs / on Archive.org / on youtube

The Bryon Noem Song
(see listing under “Big Boobs”)

Captain Liflander’s War Madrigal
(5/3/2003) Dave unearths a patriotic war song from the not-so-good-old days.
Captain Liflander’s War Madrigal / Full Episode

Cover’d with Crap
(3/16/2003) Dave sings a delightfully repugnant sea shanty.
Cover’d with Crap / Full Episode

Crappy Days are Here Again
(10/5/2008) A song for the new Depression
Crappy Days are Here Again / Archive.org / youtube

Dayenu 2003
(4/13/2003): Rabbi Sol Solomon sings a Purim song about the resilience of the Jews.
Dayenu / youtube / Full Episode

Deep in the Heart of Dallas
(7/9/2016): Dave sings a socio-political ditty.
Deep in the Heart of Dallas / Full Episode

A Dingo Ate My Baby
(1/26/2003) Dave goes down under to sing of a tasty tragedy.
A Dingo Ate My Baby / Full Episode

Don’t Mess with Us
(3/16/2003): Rabbi Sol Solomon sings a Purim song about the resilience of the Jews.
Don’t Mess with Us / Full Episode

Enema Blues
(1/19/2003): Joined by Scott Rodolitz, Dave Lefkowitz sings the Fisch-Heads song, “Enema Blues.”
Enema Blues / youtube / Full Episode

The First Time
(6/26/2026): A celebration of the physical side of romance.
The First Time / youtube

French People
(5/30/2026): Responding to France’s anti-Israel stance, Dave trolls the frogs.
French People / youtube

Hey Jews
(2/7/2026): Rabbi Sol Solomon sings a pro-Israel Beatles song.
Hey Jews / on youtube

I’m Gonna Use That Girl
(7/25/2026): A cautionary Beatles parody
I’m Gonna Use That Girl / Archive.org / youtube

(I’m Having a) Gay Christmas
(12/23/2004): Gay icon Peter Fitzgerald sings a Yuletide ditty.
Gay Christmas / Full Episode

I’m Too Sexy (For My Prostate)
(9/2/2017): The medical complaints of…who else? Rabbi Sol Solomon
I’m Too Sexy For My Prostate / Full Episode

Is it Good for the Jews?
(12/9/2004): Rabbi Sol Solomon asks an age-old question in song.
Is It Good for the Jews / Full Episode

It Won’t Get Long
(1/24/2026): A dysfunctional Beatles parody.
It Won’t Get Long / on youtube

It’s a Stiff
(12/8/2003): A holiday ditty based on the true story of a woman who disposed of her unwanted infant in a not-so-Christmassy way.
It’s a Stiff / Listen / Full Episode / youtube

Jeopardy Ken
(7/22/2004): A song of tribute to Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.
Jeopardy Ken / Full Episode

Jerree
(8/26/2017): A plea from one of Jerry’s Kids.
Jerree

Joey, the Spastic Kangaroo
(1/26/2003): Dave goes down under to relate the tale of a mentally retarded marsupial.
Joey / Full Episode

Look What They Done to My Head
(6/24/2004): With Muslim terrorists now staging decapitations for video, let’s imagine a song to go with them.
Look What They Done to My Head / Full Episode

M-O-T-H-E-R
(5/11/2003): Dave sings a Mother’s Day tribute to moms, acronymically.
Mother / Full Episode

Make Your Doody
(6/20/2026): Encouragement for a constipated man.
Make Your Doody / youtube

Makin’ Poopies
(11/4/2004): A song celebrating the joys of relief.
Makin’ Poopies / Full Episode

Many Ways
(3/15/2004): Everyone is welcome in Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood…except you.
Many Ways / youtube

Maoz Tsuris
(12/2/2007): Rabbi Sol Solomon sings an insular Chanukah song.
Maoz Tsuris

My Chanukah Wish
(12/28/2008): A Jewish man’s plea for a special present.
My Chanukah Wish / Archive.org / youtube

My Doggy’s Christmas Gift
(12/30/2004): A holiday song to warm the cockles of pet lovers’ hearts everywhere.
My Dogg’s Christmas Gift / Full Episode

The New Tzuris
(1/17/2026): Travails of a shlimazel.
The New Tzuris / on Archive.org / on youtube

Nirvanity
(12/1/2002): Dave sings about the merchandising of Kurt Cobain.
Nirvanity / Full Episode

Oh, Dat Ben!
(11/14/2015): Dave found this beautiful, spiritual hymn sung by presidential candidate Ben Carson. Or at least about him.
O Dat Ben / Full Episode

The Pain of Hemophilia
(7/18/2026): A Swiftian parody about a bloody pain.
The Pain of Hemophilia / YouTube

The Pervert’s Song (As Rears Go By)
(7/16/2025): A song parody that is truly not safe for children.
The Pervert’s Song

Phoenix Envy
(12/1/2003) Glen Campbell raises a glass too many.
Phoenix Envy

Psycho Blues
(7/9/2006) A song o’ psychopathy
Psycho Blues / Archive.org / youtube

Pubic Hair
(12/23/2007) A hymn to the short n’ curlies
Pubic Hair / Archive.org / youtube

Pussy Below
(3/15/2004): A sea chantey for cat lovers.
Pussy Below / Archive.org / youtube

Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection Theme
(2017): How the good Rabbi introduces his mini-sermons.
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflections Theme / Archive.org / youtube

The Rectum of Edmund Fitzgerald
(1/19/2004): A ballad not-so-loosely based on the Mepham High School sodomy trial on Long Island.
The Rectum of Edmund Fitzgerald / Full Episode

Santa Quits
(11/24/2012): An interview with a fed-up Santa Claus, Buchanan & Goodman style.
—> Santa Quits / youtube / Archive.org

Santasia
(12/23/2004): A deeply warped and perverted take on “The Night Before Christmas,” for your holiday pleasure.
Santasia / Full Episode

Seamus, the Urine Man
(3/16/2003): Recently back from Dublin, Dave sings of his encounter with an Irish legend.
Seamus / Full Episode

Shaving Cream 2016
(11/19/2016): Election-year excreta.
Shaving Cream 2016 / Archive.org / youtube

Sniper’s Lullaby
(10/27/2002): A song, to the tune of “Hobo’s Lullaby,” that celebrates the capture of the Beltway Snipers
Sniper’s Lullaby / Archive.org / youtube / Full Episode

Stupid Pupil
(5/25/2024): A toast to the college graduates of 2024
Stupid Pupil / on Archive.org

Swimaway
(1/20/2005) A tsunami hits Indonesia. Parody ensues
Swimaway / Swimaway / youtube

Take Your Underoos Down (The Rolf Harris Song)
(7/19/2014): In July 2014, legendary Australian TV personality Rolf Harris was sentenced to 69 months in prison for molesting numerous under-aged women over the course of two decades. Let’s hear his song, shall we?
Take Your Underoos Down / Full Episode

Thumb in My Bum
(7/8/2025): Dave gives the Rolling Stones a thumbs up in this pervy parody.
Thumb in My Bum / on youtube

Trayvon
(7/20/2013): A song about the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman confrontation and trial.
Trayvon / Full Episode

The Twelve Complaints of Christmas
(12/22/2002): Rabbi Sol Solomon sings a crabby holiday classic.
The Twelve Complaints of Christmas / Full Episode

The Twelve Months of Dave’s Gone By
(12/22/2002): Dave sings a holiday carol for his radio show.
The Twelve Months of Dave’s Gone By / Full Episode

Undies
(8/24/2013): At last, Joey Eugene Gallegos, the Greeley Underwear Bandit, has been apprehended, and here is his song.
Undies / Full Episode

We Killed Santa Claus
(12/23/2004): A humbuggy holiday carol.
We Killed Santa Claus / Full Episode

When Bushie Goes Marching In
(3/23/2003): Dave’s rah-rah ballad to mark the start of the war in Iraq.
When Bushie Goes Marching In / Full Episode

The Worst Song Ever Written
(2/14/2026): Dave’s tender and aptly named love ballad.
The Worst Song Ever Written / on youtube

Your Mother’s a Ho
(8/22/2026): A parody song of MILFic proportions.
Your Mother’s a Ho / youtube

Dave’s Gone By #1045 (8/15/2026): STRANGE BRU

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Here is episode #1045, “Strange Bru” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, Aug. 8, 2026.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Bruno Giraldi; Non-Greeley Times; StoryTime (“The Raggedy Ann Book”); My Sick Mind (Perez Hilton); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cow Camp).

Guests: actor-singer Bruno Giraldi; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: reward tortes, polaroids, AYCE sushi!, Baltimore, tornado warning
01:10:00 NON-GREELEY TIMES
01:39:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bruno Giraldi
02:19:00 STORYTIME: Janet Fulton’s “The Raggedy Ann Book”
02:35:00 MY SICK MIND: Perez Hilton
02:44:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:52:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: Richard Goldklang
02:56:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Cow Camp, CO
02:59:30 DAVE SAYS BYE

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/15/2026): BRUNO GIRALDI & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor and singer BRUNO GIRALDI

Segment airs Aug. 15, 2026 as part of episode #1045 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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

More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #1044 (8/8/2026): SHOW ME A ROSE

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Here is episode #1044, “Show Me a Rose” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, Aug. 8, 2026.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Charles Rosenay!!! [sic]; StoryTime: Secrets of the Seashore; Non-Greeley; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cory).

Guests: entrepreneur Charles Rosenay!!!; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: blood test, word apology
01:13:30 NON-GREELEY TIMES
01:48:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Charles Rosenay!!!
02:42:00 STORYTIME: Carron Brown’s “Secrets of the Seashore”
03:03:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:19:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Cory, CO
03:21:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dave’s Gone By #1043 (8/1/2026): FRI DAY

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Here is episode #1043, “Fri Day” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, Aug. 1, 2026.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Eddie Frierson; StoryTime (“I Like Your Chutzpah”); Non-Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Corona); Dave Says Bye (Oddie & Hansard).

Guests: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon; actor Eddie Frierson

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: FIFA merch, no Fiddle-Faddle, head colds, farmer’s markets, prediction markets
00:56:00 NON-GREELEY TIMES
01:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Eddie Frierson
02:11:30 STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Suzy Ultman’s “I Like Your Chutzpah”
02:31:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:39:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: Bill Oddie, Glen Hansard
02:55:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Corona, CO)
03:00:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #212 (7/25/2026): JIMOTHY

Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on what we can learn from a viral raccoon.

This Rabbinical Reflection first aired July 25, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections air on the long-running Dave’s Gone By program (davesgoneby.com) and are also archived on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com.

Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage shows, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” and “Hate Speech…With Love: Another Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.”

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #212 (7/25/2026): Jimothy

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for late July 2026.

What happy things occurred this year to take our minds off the miserable state of the world? The New York Knicks? America doing okeedoke in FIFA? Travis Kelce making an honest woman of Taylor Swift? Democrats magically realizing that a lech with a Nazi tattoo might not be the best Senatorial candidate – even for progressives? I mean, they wanted a socialist, but a National Socialist?

All of those were bright spots in a brown year. The latest distraction from doomsday may not be the most dramatic, but it is the cutest. Last week on social media, a raccoon lumbering across backyards in Seattle, went viral. In fact, people thought the animal was viral because he was a mess. A hunchback with a foreshortened spine, the beast – lovingly nicknamed “Jimothy” – looked like a cross between a squirrel and a midget gorilla. And yet, although goofy looking, this rodent with a pudgy body and a stubby tail was doing everything raccoons normally do – sneaking around, foraging, forcing suburbanites to double bag their garbage.

And here lies the conundrum of Jimothy. Raccoons are viewed as a nuisance. They’re beautiful creatures, but in your backyard or your garage or, God forbid, your chimney, that’s a call to pest control. And don’t let children go near them `cause they could be rabid. Your garden-variety raccoon is the last thing you want to see in your garden.

Except when you have an abnormal, deformed, genetically fucked-up raccoon – then it’s love. Everywhere, Jimothy t-shirts, tattoos, murals, glass figurines! The University of Washington already has a mascot so they couldn’t adopt him, so they just gave him an honorary doctorate. (Not really, but check their Instagram.)

So, yes, people are besotted with this trash panda because he’s beating the odds. He’s living his best raccoon life despite being shaped like Danny DeVito. Jimothy’s deformity, his homeliness – which would ordinarily set off a Darwinian “ugh” – instead prompts a desire to mother and protect him.

So this got me thinking (which with me is always dangerous). What can Jews learn from Jimothy? I realize our problem is we’ve become too normal. We’re so assimilated, so taken for granted for blending in, people feel no guilt for hating us. Jews hold major positions in law, entertainment, medicine, technology. We have physically gorgeous actors and actresses on TV and in movies. And we may not own all the banks, but we probably own the buildings the banks are in.

Despite our tiny population, Jews are major players in every aspect of the world stage, which gives everyone from good-ol’-boy bigots to social-justice sophomores carte blanche to harangue us with insults, falsehoods, and blame. When Israel hit back after October 7th, the world went, “What??? The underdog isn’t supposed to take brutal revenge! If you’re not cowering in the corner, you must be the bad guys. Not to mention Christ killers.”

So, how do we Jews counteract this latest wave of anti-us-ism? Why not go the Jimothy route? Instead of being attractive, educated, erudite, cultural, influential, and basically normal, maybe it’s time for Jews to lean into the old stereotypes. Lose the attributes that have helped us pass – and surpass.

We all want to be Paul Newman, but it’s safer to be Arnold Stang. Why? People who fear commonplace raccoons adore Jimothy because he’s a harmless freak. Maybe we Jews should grow our noses out, run around with scraggly beards and smelly old coats, cough and limp and crap ourselves, and get partial lobotomies to make us retarded. And then we approach our enemies, with Sarah McLachlan music playing behind us, and say (retarded voice), “Shalom! Look how helpless and wretched we are. Won’t you let us live in peace in our own widdle country? Think of us as the Moo Deng of the Middle East.”

Now, granted. That approach might backfire. Zohran Mamdani might round up all the New York Hebes and throw `em in zoos. But just maybe, if we can convince our foes to view us as pathetic Jimothies instead of powerful Jews, perhaps we’ll dodge the next pogrom.

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

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Dave’s Gone By #1042 (7/25/2026): `TINE BEAT

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Here is episode #1042, “`Tine Beet” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, July 25, 2026.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Christin Andreas and musical director Martin Silvestri, reads “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”, and reflects on Jimothy the raccoon; Non-Greeley Times; Dave’s new song “I’m Gonna Use That Girl”; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cornish); My Old Phlegm.

Guests: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon; singer Christine Andreas; musician Martin Silvestri.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: whistling, The Scarlet Pimpernel, hemophilia, YMCA
01:04:00 NON-GREELEY TIMES: Jimothy, poop shoes
01:30:30 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Christine Andreas and Martin Silvestri
02:27:00 STORYTIME: Carol McCloud’s “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”
02:48:00 MY OLD PHLEGM: guppy
02:55:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:03:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #212: Jimothy
03:12:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Cornish
03:16:00 DAVE GOES OUT

L-R: Christine Andreas, Martin Silvestri, Rabbi Sol Solomon

SONG: The Pain of Hemophilia

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Dave’s Gone By Song (7/18/2026): THE PAIN OF HEMOPHILIA

A Swiftian parody about a bloody pain.

This segment airs July 18, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com.

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

TRANSCRIPT:

THE PAIN OF HEMOPHILIA

(sung to the music of “The Fate of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback)

I’m in the workshop
Hear a knife drop
Go to pick it up the wrong way
I grab the sharp side
I feel the blade slide
And the artery start to spray

And then I’m calling 9-1-1
Because I fear my days might be done

I’m wrapping towels around my thumb
My nose, my toe
Nothing’s gonna stop that red flow

All my life is pain and trouble
I should be in a bubble
`cause I’ve got hemophilia

Oh, a drip becomes a geyser
And there’s no stabilizer
`Cause I’ve got hemophilia

Keep a tight bandage on your hand
your face, your lip
Just in case those places open up and drip

First I see a tiny dot
And then a lot
It looks like I’ve been shot
`cause I cannot clot:
I’ve got hemophilia.

I’ve no illusions that these transfusions
Are gonna spare me from the worst
And if I should break a bone
Why, just the fall alone
Will cause the vein in my brain to burst
Because my blood lacks Factor 8
That means I’ll never coagulate
Every time I see a drop I mop the glop
pleading for the bleeding to stop

`Cause in case you have forgotten
my blood won’t do no clottin’
`cause I have hemophilia

Oh, you best get a container
`cause I’m a leaky veiner
Yeah, I’ve got hemophilia

I have a compress on my head, it’s red, I bled,
Such a ton of blood I shed
I should be dead

Every day is an ordeal, for real, I feel
I’d be Dracula’s most satisfying meal
I hate hemophilia

I wish that I had normal blood
So deep and rich and thick as mud
I’d live my life with little fear
and give to Red Cross twice a year
I wouldn’t be afraid to fall
I’d skate and ski and do it all
And, yes, I know, that’s just a dream
Instead I’m stuck with my bloodstream

My existence is infernal
`cause I can bleed internal
from deadly hemophilia

Any stumble becomes tragic
If I go hemorrhagic
The fate of hemophilia

I’m afraid to break a sweat
a hip, a bone
I can’t even be alone without regret

Have to live my life afraid
and near first aid
Every cut is a cascade when you can’t evade
The fate of hemophilia.

Can someone put me on chemo for hemophilia?

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/18/2026): SHEBA MASON, IAN WEHRLE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian SHEBA MASON & actor/sound designer IAN WEHRLE

Topics include: The Jackie Mason musical, sound, nightclubs

Segment airs July 18, 2026 as part of episode #1041 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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

More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: shalomdammit.com