Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/6/2005): CHRIS SMITHER

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with singer-songwriter Chris Smither

Topics include: music, folk.

Segment originally aired Jan. 6, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #109 (1/6/2005): SMITHERS!

Here is the 109th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Jan. 6, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: musician Chris Smither

Featuring: Dave chats with folk musician Chris Smither.

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:03:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – Communion, Pirates & Penny
00:13:00  DAVE’S GOT GUESTS – musician Chris Smither
00:54:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 6, 2005 Playlist: “Oh Here is Love and Here is Truth” (Pirates of Penzance, D’Oyly Carte Opera Co.,); “Homunculus,” “Confirmation” & “So Long” (Chris Smither).

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/30/2004): JEFF GOODMAN

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with theater critic Jeff Goodman

Topics include: Two on the Aisle, Broadway.

Segment originally aired Dec. 30, 2004, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #108 (12/30/2004): YEAR-VIEW MIRROR

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Here is the 108th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 30, 2004. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: theater critic Jeff Goodman

Featuring: Dave looks at the best and worst of 2004, Inside Broadway and out.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN – The Calendar
00:21:00  DAVE’S GONE CULTURAL – 2004’s Best & Worst w/ theater critic, Jeff Goodman
00:45:00  GRATEFUL DAVE / DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 30, 2004 Playlist: “Happy New Year” (Spike Jones); “Come On Up to the House” (Tom Waits).

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Dave’s Gone By #107 (12/23/2004): LONG-RANGE MISTLETOE

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Here is the 107th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 23, 2004. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: A very musical holiday show, including Inside Broadway and the satirical News Gone By.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN
00:07:00  Dave on Xmas
00:19:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – Holiday Shows
00:27:00  NEWS GONE BY w/ “Santasia” poem
00:33:00  POEM: Santasia (Dave)
00:51:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 23, 2004 Playlist: “A Christmas Carol” (Tom Lehrer); “My Doggy’s Christmas Gift” (Dave, unreleased); “We Killed Santa Claus” (Dave, unreleased); “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Joseph Spence); “Santasia” (Dave, unreleased); “(I’m Having a) Gay Christmas” (Peter Fitzgerald, unreleased); “The Twelve Complaints of Christmas” (Rabbi Sol Solomon, unreleased, encore from 12/22/02 show), “Another Christmas Song” (Cab City Combo).

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Dave’s Gone By Song (12/23/2004): WE KILLED SANTA CLAUS

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A humbuggy holiday carol.

Segment originally aired Dec. 23, 2004, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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WE KILLED SANTA CLAUS

by David Lefkowitz (sung to “Here Come Santa Claus” by Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman)

We killed Santa Claus
We killed Santa Claus
We killed Jesus, too
Nailed him to a cross
No big freakin’ loss
Just another cranky Jew

All our life was trouble and strife
From the Holocaust to Pogroms.
So keep J.C. away from me
He’s worse than terrorist bombs.

We kill babies
We kill children
Use their blood for cake.
We own Hollywood
We own Wall Street
Take take take take take

This is what you’ve said about us
For the past 2,000 years
Pound, Voltaire, and Charles Baudelaire
and any goy who’s had four beers

We killed Santa Claus
We killed Santa Claus
And we’d do it again
Goodbye carols
Goodbye crèches
No goodwill toward men

You’ve hated us since the birth of Christ
So we hate you in return
So stick your mass
Straight up your ass
And burn, Joan of Arc, bitch, burn.

©2004 David Lefkowitz

Dave’s Gone By #106 (12/16/2004): WINTERESTING

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Here is the 106th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 16, 2004.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Dave Goes Off on Donuts, Donald Rumsfeld and Scott Peterson. Plus: Inside Broadway (The Rivals) and the satirical News Gone By.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN
00:14:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – The Rivals
00:21:00  NEWS GONE BY
00:31:00  DAVE GOES OFF – Donuts, Donald & Death
00:52:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 16, 2004 Playlist: “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” (Pete Seeger).

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Dana Ivey & Brian Murray in The Rivals
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Dave’s Gone By #105 (12/9/2004): CIGGY STARBURST

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Here is the 105th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, Dec. 9, 2004. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: Rabbi Sol Solomon, spiritual leader of Temple Sons of Bitches, Great Neck, NY

Featuring: Dave celebrates Chanukah with Rabbi Sol Solomon and goes off on smoking on stage. Plus: La Cage returns Inside Broadway.

0:00:01  DAVE GOES IN – Daylight
00:20:00  INSIDE BROADWAY –  La Cage
00:31:00  DAVE GOES OFF – Smoking
00:38:00  SKIT: Rabbi Sol Solomon on Chanukah
00:50:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 9, 2004 Playlist: “Daylight” (Kinks); “Song on the Sand” (La Cage aux Folles, original cast); “Is it Good for the Jews?” (Rabbi Sol Solomon); “Anal Dreidel” (Dave, unreleased).

Gary Beach and Daniel Davis in La Cage aux Folles
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Dave’s Gone By Song (12/9/2004): IS IT GOOD FOR THE JEWS? w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon

ZZ-Song-IsItGoodfortheJewsA song of questioning from Rabbi Sol Solomon.

Segment originally aired Dec. 9, 2004, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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IS IT GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

by Rabbi Sol Solomon (as transcribed by David Lefkowitz)

Is it good for the Jews?
Do we win? Do we lose?
Should we laugh? Should we cry?
666 or maybe chai?

Is it righteous
Is it wrong?
Is it relevant to this song?
Weigh the subtext and the clues
As they pertain to Jews.

Ask the Rebbe, ask the mohel
Is it good for Yisroel?
Do we dance or sing the blues
Is it good, goddammit, for the Jew?

Does it mollify? Does it harm?
Does it qualify for alarm?
Is the danger far or near?
Is it joy or oy vey iz mir?

Is it heaven? Is it hell?
Do we gasp, or do we kvell?
A mound of gold or a pile of shoes
Is it good . . . ?

©2004 David Lefkowitz

Dave’s Gone By #104 (12/2/2004): D IN DC IN DEC

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Here is the 104th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 2, 2004. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: Peter Fitzgerald, Vice President of WGLFAR, The Woodmere Gay/Lesbian Front..and Rear.

Featuring: Dave’s trip to Washington DC. Plus: the satirical News Gone By, Inside Broadway (Pacific Overtures & Billy Crystal), the Jeopardy Ken song and the skit, Fiddler is a Pouf with Peter Fitzgerald.

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:06:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – Pacific Overtures & Billy Crystal
00:16:00  SKIT: Fiddler is a Pouf w/ Peter Fitzgerald
00:28:00  DAVE GOES OFF – Jeopardy Ken & Dave in DC
00:43:00  NEWS GONE BY
00:53:00  DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 2, 2004 Playlist: “There is No Other Way” (Pacific Overtures original cast; “Jeopardy Ken” (Dave, “Five Daves”), “Wedding Dance” (Fiddler on the Roof original cast).

Harvey Fierstein as Tevye
Pacific Overtures
Alex Trebek & Ken Jennings now . . .
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