Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress and singer Rita Gardner
Topics include: The Fantasticks.
Segment originally aired Sept. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Rita Gardner, passed Sept. 23, 2022.
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Here is the 361st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 17, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Actress Rita Gardner
Dave chats with actress Rita Gardner of the original Fantasticks. Plus an autumnal Saturday Segue, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (fall) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (9/11).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Autumn 1 00:33:30 GUEST: Rita Gardner 01:16:00 Sponsors 01:24:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Autumn 2 01:39:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:55:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Fall) 02:33:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on 9/11 02:41:00 DAVE GOES OFF – on Potato Day 02:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 17, 2011 Playlist: “Fall” (00:08:30; Bruce Cockburn); “The Leaves That are Green” (00:11:30; Simon & Garfunkel); “Autumn” (00:14:00; Moondog); “Summer’s Gone” (00:16:00; Frogs Gone Fishin’); “When Summer’s Ended” (00:20:00; Bill Morrissey); “The Summer of My Wasted Youth” (00:23:30; Amy Rigby); “The Last Rose of Summer” (00:27:00; Tom Waits); “Much More / I Can See It” (00:31:30) & “Try to Remember / They Were You” (01:11:30; Rita Gardner). “Much More” (00:47:00; The Fantasticks, 1960 off-Broadway cast); “Falling Leaves” (01:25:00), “Heart Full of Leaves” (01:29:00), “Autumn Sea” (01:30:30) & “Autumn is Your Last Chance” (01:34:30; Robyn Hitchcock); “Hotel California” (01:46:30; Eagles); “Golden Loom” (01:55:30), “Sitting on Top of the World” (02:00:00), “Spirit on the Water” (02:04:00), “Cat’s in the Well” (02:12:00), “The Wicked Messenger” (02:15:30) & “Idiot Wind” (02:17:30; Bob Dylan); “Hot Potatoes” (02:37:30; The Kinks); “Autumn Leaves” (02:57:30; Eva Cassidy).
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of September 11th, 2011.
Boy, just hearing that date gets you in the kishkes, doesn’t it? September 11th 2011. Somehow that just sounds more meaningful than September 11th 2009 or September 11th 2003 – even though more time has passed. I suppose a ten-year anniversary makes you realize that, no matter what, life goes on, years pass; while at the same time, you recall how much younger you were a decade ago, and what an impact the event had on your life.
Ten years ago, Wall Street was destroyed, not by corruption from within – that came later – but by evil from without. Arabs, in airplanes, with box-cutters. How these scumpuppets were able to circumvent the FAA, the Air Force, the civil defense and any air-traffic controller with eyes remains a mystery greater than how Drakes gets that crème filling into Yodels. I mean, it’s all rolled up; how the hell do they do that?
Anyway, this week we’re hearing a lot of talk about closure. Ten years – it’s almost another generation. The world moves forward, the dead are not coming back, and, of course, we got Bin Laden. When the bullet sailed through his forehead, it made a satisfying parallel to those planes pushing through the buildings. As I mentioned in a previous Reflection, Osama’s death was a wonderful thing, but killing him kills him, not Jihad, not terrorism, not the memories.
As we all know, grief does not follow a time-table. Time heals wounds, but you never know when a scab will come off and start bleeding again. Looking at downtown Manhattan, remembering the 3000 victims, watching any movie that opens with a shot of that old New York City skyline – it all kicks up a sandstorm of memories.
And much as we all want mental therapy and ways to feel better about 9/11, let’s not go overboard making believe something good came out of the attacks. Nothing good came out of that. It was a nightmare; we suffered emotionally, financially, physically. Don’t be looking for feel-good post-mortems because how could there be a silver lining from such a thing? Well, maybe if one of those airplanes had the Kardashian family on it, but it would have to be the whole family, including Bruce Jenner, you know what I’m saying?
Seriously, though, at least there has finally been some progress rebuilding Ground Zero, and it is already possible to foresee a time when our children will think of 9/11 as “mom and dad’s Pearl Harbor Day,” rather than that day. Whether or not we fudged the endgame in Afghanistan, I’m glad we killed a lot of people there. Iraq may have been a blunder, but I’m glad we killed a lot of people there, too. God, I sound like a homicidal Andy Rooney.
On the other hand, they’re saying pretty soon we can once again go through airports keeping the shoes on our feet. Why? Because those feet kicked some ass.
Somewhere, in hell, there’s a dozen Arabs being mocked and brutalized by 72 appallingly ugly virgins, all of them holding box cutters in one hand and Moslem shmeckels in the other. Happy goddamn anniversary.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
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Here is the 360th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 3, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave welcomes Labor Day weekend with a Saturday Segue (finest worksongs), Inside Broadway (news), Dylan – “Sooner & Later” (work), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (on Reb Levin). Plus: Dave Goes Off on the Telethon.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:09:30 GUEST CALLER: Dave’s wife Joyce 00:43:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Finest Worksongs 01:35:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – News & Porgy Problems (01:41:00) 01:53:30 Weather & Sponsors 01:59:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Labor 02:36:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #22: Reb Levin 02:44:30 DAVE GOES OFF on the MD Telethon 02:54:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 3, 2011 Playlist: “Hot Potato” (00:27:00; The Wiggles); “The Potato Song” (00:28:30; Cheryl Wheeler); “Work” (00:43:30; Bob Marley & the Wailers); “Don’t Talk to Me About Work” (00:47:00; Lou Reed); “Work for Your Money” (00:49:30; Howlin’ Wolf); “Go to Work You Jerk” (00:52:00; Benny Bell); “Why Don’t You Get a Job” (00:54:00; The Offspring); “Finest Worksong” (01:00:00; R.E.M.); “Working Class Hero” (01:04:00; Richie Havens); “Take a Job” (01:09:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Bway cast); “A Job of Work” (01:12:30; Tom Paxton); “Force on the Workforce” (01:15:00; Keith Hancock); “Get a Job” (01:17:30; The Silhouettes); “Losing Our Job” (01:20:30; The Roches); “Woman’s Work” (01:24:30; Tracy Chapman); “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” (01:26:00; Randy Newman); “I Loves You Porgy” (01:49:30; James Brown); “Talkin’ New York” (01:59:30), “North Country Blues” (02:02:30), “Cantina Theme (Workin’ for the Law)” (02:07:30), “You Gotta Serve Somebody” (live) (02:16:30) & “Workingman’s Blues #2” (02:22:30; Bob Dylan); “Tangled Up in Blue” (02:10:00; Robyn Hitchcock); “Rock Me Jerry Lewis” (02:42:00; Mike Elliot & Bud LaTour); “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work to See My Baby” (02:56:30; Tom Waits).
Dave Lefkowitz and Rabbi Sol Solomon interview radio host Joe Salzone
Topics include: radio, WGBB.
Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Too Slim (Fred LaBour), Ranger Doug (Douglas B. Green) and Joey the Cowpolka King (Joey Miskulin) of Riders in the Sky
Topics include: Western music, Toy Story, television.
Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 359th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 20, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: Riders in the Sky, comedian Aaron Berg and broadcaster Joe Salzone.
Featuring: Dave chats with comedian Aaron Berg and with Too Slim, Ranger Doug and Joey the Cowpolka King of the western swing band, Riders in the Sky. Plus: A chat with broadcaster Joe Salzone, Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (downturn) and a brief Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later segment on schooldays.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – While We Were Out 00:42:30 GUESTS: Riders in the Sky (Ranger Doug, Too Slim & Joey the Cowpolka King) 01:31:30 GUEST: Aaron Berg 02:08:30 Sponsors 02:11:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the economic downturn 02:19:30 INSIDE BROADWAY – news 02:24:00 Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (schooldays) 02:31:30 GUEST: Joe Salzone 02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 20, 2011 Playlist: “Time is on My Side” (01:10:30; Rolling Stones); “When Summer’s Ended” (00:13:00) & “You’ll Never Get to Heaven” (00:20:30; Bill Morrissey); “Wake Up Alone” (00:17:00) & “You Know I’m No Good” (00:27:00; Amy Winehouse); “Pata Pata” (00:24:00; Miriam Makeba); “The Land Beyond the Sun” (00:39:00), “Saddle Up” (00:54:30), “Song of the Trail” (01:09:30), “There’s a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder” (01:25:30), “He Walks with the Wild and Lonely” (03:02:00; Riders in the Sky); “Carry That Weight” (01:30:00; The Beatles); “The Untitled (aka The Hardy Boys at the Y)” (02:02:30; Loudon Wainwright III); “Subterranean Homesick Blues, Take 1” (02:24:00) & “Life is Hard” (02:27:00) (Bob Dylan).
Riders in the SkyAaron BergJoe SalzoneRabbi Sol Solomon
Topics include: comedy, Addicted to Show Business.
Segment originally aired July 2, 2011 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 358th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, July 2, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: comedian Dave Konig, and Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian Dave Konig. Plus: a Saturday Segue of freedom songs, Inside Broadway (news & Nixon’s Nixon), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (July 4th), Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections on July 4th, and Dave & his wife Joyce reminisce about their trip to Italy.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Freedom 00:33:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Dave Konig 01:25:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (News & Nixon’s Nixon (01:38:30)) 01:47:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – more freedom songs 01:53:30 Sponsors 02:01:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: July 4th 02:37:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #20: July 4th 02:45:00 DAVE GOES AWAY – to Italy (aka Wakka-Wakka Boom-Boom Pigs), w/ guest Joyce 03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT
July 2, 2011 Playlist: (part one) “Absolutely Free” (00:08:30; Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention); “Freedom Now” (00:12:00; Tracy Chapman); “Free” (00:15:30; “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1996 Bway cast); “Set Me Free” (00:19:00; John Cale); “I’m So Free” (00:23:30; Lou Reed); Marriage (00:28:30) & Jewish (01:16:00; Dave Konig, youtube clips); (01:22:00; Follies 2004 Paper Mill Playhouse cast); “Free as a Bird” (01:47:30; The Beatles); “I’m Free” (01:51:00; The Rolling Stones); “Tears of Rage” (version 2) (02:02:30), “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” (02:05:00), “Tombstone Blues” (live) (02:09:00), “Lone Pilgrim” (02:13:30), “Angelina” (02:16:00), “Band of the Hand” (02:23:00) & “This Land is Your Land” (02:27:30; Bob Dylan); “Mambo Italiano” (02:43:30; Dean Martin); “Freedom” (live) (03:14:30; Richie Havens).
