Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/8/2013): DONALD COLLESTER

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews New Jersey-based theater critic Donald Collester

Topics include: Tony Awards, Musical Revival, New Jersey theater.

Segment originally aired June 8, 2013, as part of the Tony Awards special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/7/2013): BOB CUDMORE (WVTL morning show)

Dave Lefkowitz chats with Bob Cudmore on the latter’s WVTL radio morning show

Topics include: theater

Segment aired June 7, 2013 on WVTL 1570-AM’s “Coffee with Cudmore” in Amsterdam, NY.  

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/1/2013): GARY U.S. BONDS & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews rock-and-roll veteran Gary U.S. Bonds

Topics include: That’s My Story, Otis Redding, Elvis Presley, touring, family.

Segment originally aired June 1, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #425 (6/1/2013): SCHLOCKS & BONDS

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Here is the 425th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 1, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with veteran rocker Gary U.S. Bonds. Plus: Saturday Segue (hospitals), Inside Broadway.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Gary U.S. Bonds

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:20:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Hospitals
00:55:00 Sponsors
01:03:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Gary U.S. Bonds
02:07:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:37:30 Friends
02:46:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Bonds
03:03:30 Thanks
03:04:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 1, 2013 Playlist: “That Hospital” (00:21:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “Sister Morphine” (00:24:30; Marianne Faithfull). “Hospital Beds” (00:31:00; Florence + The Machine). “Hospitals” (00:33:00; Counting Crows). “Outside the Hospital” (00:36:00; Wild Man Fischer). “Grace Hospital” (00:40:00; Jane Siberry). “I Don’t Want to Die (in a Hospital)” (00:48:00; Conor Oberst). “Quarter to Three” (01:01:00), “New Orleans” (01:09:00), “Not Me” (01:13:00), “From a Buick 6” (01:38:30), “Soul Deep” (01:49:00) & “This Little Girl” (02:03:30; Gary U.S. Bonds). “These Arms of Mine” (01:30:30; Otis Redding). “Where are All the People?” (02:42:30; Chaplin – The Musical w/ Rob McClure). “We Better Talk this Over” (02:46:30), “Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag” (02:51:00) & “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (02:57:00; Bob Dylan). “Sign Language” (02:54:00; Eric Clapton & Bob Dylan). “Finish Line” (03:09:00; Lou Reed).

Gary US Bonds
Rabbi Sol Solomon
hospital

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/25/2013): DANNY ABOSCH & SUSAN DILALLO & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews “Fancy Nancy” theater composers Danny Abosch & Susan DiLallo

Topics include: musical theater, NYU, Fancy Nancy – The Musical.

Segment originally aired May 25, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Danny Abosch
Susan DiLallo

Dave’s Gone By #424 (5/25/2013): PLAIN & FANCY

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Here is the 424th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 25, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Susan DiLallo and Danny Abosch, authors of Fancy Nancy – The Musical. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (twisters), Saturday Segues (The Doors, fancy things), and Rabbi Sol on Angelina Jolie.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: musical-theater writers Danny Abosch & Susan DiLallo

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:04:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Fancy
00:40:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:13:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Danny Abosch & Susan DiLallo
01:50:00 Sponsors, Weather & upcoming guests
01:58:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Twisters)
02:30:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #68 (Angelina Jolie)
02:37:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Ray Manzarek of The Doors
03:00:00 Thanks & Friends
03:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 25, 2013 Playlist: “Fancy” (00:04:30; The Kinks). “Warm Love” (00:06:30; Van Morrison). “Oh, Lonesome Me” (00:10:00; Neil Young). “Fancy Funeral” (00:13:30; Lucinda Williams). “Fancy Definitions” (00:18:00; Benny Bell). “Rocky Raccoon” (00:20:30; The Beatles). “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” (00:24:00; The Threepenny Opera, 1954 off-Broadway cast w/ Gerald Price). “Ironbound/Fancy Poultry” (00:27:30; Suzanne Vega). “Dunford’s Fancy” (00:33:30; The Waterboys). “The Soul of a Man” (01:01:00; Kinky Boots, 2013 Broadway cast w/ Stark Sands). “Anyone Can be Fancy” (01:10:00), “You’ll Always Feel Much Better After Tea” (01:19:30), “Shark Rap” (01:24:00); “You’ll Always Be My Star” (01:34:30) & “A Fancier Place” (01:47:00; Fancy Nancy – The Musical 2012 off-Broadway cast). “Jokerman” (01:59:30), “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie” (02:06:00), “Thunder on the Mountain” (02:13:00) & “Shelter from the Storm” (02:19:00; “Hard Rain” live version; Bob Dylan). “Break on Through” (02:35:00), “Unhappy Girl” (02:46:00), “You Make Me Real” (02:47:30), “Waiting for the Sun” (02:50:30), “Blue Sunday” (02:54:30), “Take it as it Comes” (02:56:30) & “Light My Fire” (03:09:00; The Doors).

Susan DiLallo
Danny Abosch
Ray Manzarek
Angelina Jolie
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/18/2013): ARTHUR BICKNELL

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews “Moose Murders” playwright Arthur Bicknell

Topics include: Moose Murders, theater.

Segment originally aired May 18, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #423 (5/18/2013): STYLING MOOSE

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Here is the 423rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 18, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring an interview with Moose Murders playwright Arthur Bicknell. Plus: Inside Broadway. Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (the office) and a Saturday Segue (flops).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: playwright Arthur Bicknell, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:05:00 DAVE GOES OFF: Snarky Guy
01:10:00 GUEST: Arthur Bicknell
01:57:30 Sponsors
02:02:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:32:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #67 (5/19/13): Tax Evasion
02:49:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (the office)
03:21:00 Weather & Friends
03:25:30 The Archives w/ Joyce
03:32:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 18, 2013 Playlist: “Floppy Boot Stomp” (00:43:30; Captain Beefheart). “Flip Flop and Fly” (00:47:30; Big Joe Turner). “Making Flippy Floppy” (00:50:00; Talking Heads). “Queen Bitch” (00:56:00; David Bowie). “I Want to Boogie with You” (00:59:00; Lou Reed). “Opening Night” (01:03:00; The Producers, 2001 Broadway cast). “How are You” (02:29:30; Nellie McKay). “Summer Days” (02:52:00), “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” ({alternate version}; 02:56:30) & “I Shall Be Free” ({Witmark version}; 03:13:30; Bob Dylan). “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (03:02:30; Phranc). “Percy’s Song” (03:07:00; Fairport Convention).

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Arthur Bicknell
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Kevin Williamson

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/11/2013): CARL REINER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedy legend Carl Reiner

Topics include: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Your Show of Shows, Mel Brooks, David Burns, George Burns, Estelle Reiner, family.

Segment originally aired May 11, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Carl Reiner, passed June 29, 2020 at age 98.

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Dave’s Gone By #422 (5/11/2013): WATCH ON THE REIN

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Here is the 422nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 11, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy legend Carl Reiner. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (George Carlin, Eric Burdon), Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Jodi Arias murder trial, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (bombs away) and a visit from Dave’s wife, Joyce.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: writer/director Carl Reiner

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:21:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Eric Burdon
00:49:00 Sponsors
00:56:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carl Reiner
02:43:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bombs Away)
02:13:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (02:13:00); reviews: The Trip to Bountiful (02:29:00) & Medea (02:37:00))
03:09:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #66: Jodi on HLN
03:14:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – George Carlin
03:35:30 Friends, Thanks & Weather
03:31:30 DAVE GOES OUT

May 11, 2013 Playlist: “Spill the Wine” (00:22:00, War w/ Eric Burdon), “I’m Crying” (00:26:00), “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (00:29:00), “I Believe to My Soul” (00:35:30) & “House of the Rising Sun” (00:39:00; The Animals). “27 Forever” (00:31:30; Eric Burdon). “Slow Growth” (00:55:00) & “Pain” (01:42:30; Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner). “I Remember You” (02:04:00; Estelle Reiner). “I Got the Sun in the Morning” (02:26:00; Annie Get Your Gun w/ Ethel Merman). “Please Mrs. Henry” (02:45:30), “Farewell, Angelina” (02:48:00), “Neighborhood Bully” (02:53:30), “Oxford Town” (02:57:30) & “Masters of War” (02:59:30; Bob Dylan). “Welcome to My Job” (03:16:00), “I Used to be Irish Catholic” (03:19:00), “People I Can Do Without” (03:22:00), “American Bullshit” (03:25:30), “Cute Little Farts” (03:28:30).

Carl Reiner
The Alan Brady Days
George Carlin
Eric Burdon
The Trip to Bountiful
Jodi Arias
Bombs Away
Rabbi Sol Solomon