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Here is the 488th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 13, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Spike Jones, Keef), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Wig), Greeley Crime Beat.
Guests: singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins; Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Dog Toilet, Barefoot) 00:49:30 GREELEY CRIME BEAT 01:21:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Spike Jones 01:38:30 Sponsors 01:45:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:14:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Sophie B. Hawkins 03:33:00 Friends 03:45:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #16 w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (Wig) 03:50:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (candles) 04:12:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Keith Richards 04:35:30 Weather 04:46:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 13, 2014 Playlist: “Siam” (01:24:30), “Red Wing” (01:27:00), “I’m Forever Blowing Bubble Gum” (01:29:30) & “People are Funnier than Anybody” (01:33:00; Spike Jones). “Brand New You” (02:07:00; 13 Broadway cast w/ Ariana Grande). “Right Beside You” (02:10:30), “Lose Your Way” (02:25:30), “Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover” (02:39:30), “As I Lay Me Down” (03:01:00) & “Georgia” (03:28:30; Sophie B. Hawkins). “Women Walking Wearing Wings” (03:43:00; Christine Lavin). “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (03:52:00) & “Black Diamond Bay” (04:03:00; Bob Dylan). “Love Minus Zero (No Limit)” (03:55:00; Joan Baez). “Gates of Eden” (03:57:30; Arlo Guthrie). “Happy” (04:16:30), “Thief in the Night” (04:19:30), “Little T&A” (04:24:30) & “Slipping Away” (04:28:00; The Rolling Stones). “How I Spent My Fall Vacation” (04:39:00; Bruce Cockburn).
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Segment scheduled to air Dec. 6, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 487th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 6, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with film expert Nan Bauer(Nanettesfeast.com). Plus: Dave and his wife Joyce go Inside Broadway (Peter Pan). Also: Saturday Segues (Waits & Sinatra, Jim Morrison), Dylan – Sooner & Later (Beacon), The Wretched Pun of Destiny, Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Bill Cosby, and the brand-new segment, “Greeley Crime Beat.”
Guest Co-Host: Dave’s wife Joyce Weil
Guest: Film expert Nan Bauer.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (k-cups) 00:13:00 GREELEY CRIME BEAT 00:35:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN 00:55:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jim Morrison 01:15:00 Sponsors 01:23:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:23:30), Peter Pan on TV (01:42:30)) 02:05:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Nan Bauer 03:13:30 Friends 03:20:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #15 (Restaurants) 03:23:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Beacon) 03:48:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Bill Cosby 04:00:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #112 – Bill Cosby 04:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom Waits & Frank Sinatra 04:39:30 Weather 04:43:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 6, 2014 Playlist: “Midtown” (00:13:00), “Warm Beer and Cold Women” (04:12:30), “Barcarolle” (04:22:00), “How’s it Gonna End” (04:29:00) & “Lucky Day” (04:49:00; Tom Waits). “Back Door Man” (00:56:30), “I Looked at You” (01:00:00), “Hyacinth House” (01:02:30), “The Spy – Version 2” (01:05:30) & “Love Me Two Times” (01:09:00; The Doors). “I Gotta Crow (Reprise)” (01:42:30) & “Hook’s Waltz” (01:57:30; Peter Pan 1997 Broadway cast w/ Cathy Rigby & Paul Schoeffler). “Like in the Movies” (02:01:30; The Pretenders). “If You were in My Movie” (03:09:00; Suzanne Vega). “Things have Changed” (03:26:30), “Scarlet Town” (03:31:30), “She Belongs to Me” ({alternate take}; 03:38:30) & “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'” (03:42:00; Bob Dylan). “Come Rain or Come Shine” (04:18:00), “I See Your Face Before Me” (04:26:00) & “Old Devil Moon” (04:34:00; Frank Sinatra).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer Baby Jane Dexter
Topics include: cabaret, depression, rape, AIDS.
Segment aired Nov. 29, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Baby Jane Dexter, passed May 20, 2019.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
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Here is the 486th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 29, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Baby Jane Dexter. Plus: Saturday Segue (this week), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Real Live), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Tracy Morgan).
Guests: singer Baby Jane Dexter, Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (late start, Thanksgiving with Frendy, Paul Williams) 01:04:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – This Week 01:27:00 More with Dave & Joyce (auto-correct, Sting) 01:35:00 Sponsors 01:53:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Baby Jane Dexter 03:26:00 Friends 03:31:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #14 – Tracy Morgan 03:34:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Real Live) 03:54:30 Weather 03:57:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 29, 2014 Playlist: “Baby Jane” (00:45:00; Rod Stewart). “Jelly Roll Gum Drop” (01:07:30; Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention). “Everybody’s Wrong” (01:12:30; Buffalo Springfield). “Little Wing” (01:14:30; Jimi Hendrix). “Norwegian Wood” (01:17:00; The Beatles). “Gimme Shelter” (01:19:00; The Rolling Stones). “The Kids are All Right” (01:23:30; The Who). “I Got Thunder” (01:50:30), “You Really Got a Hold On Me” (02:11:30), “One Meatball” (02:25:00), “Chickie Chickie Chickie” (02:46:30), “Fifteen Ugly Minutes” (02:51:30), “Everybody Hurts” (03:16:00) & “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart” (04:02:00; Baby Jane Dexter). “Tombstone Blues” ({Real Live version}; 03:44:00), “License to Kill” ({Real Live version}; 03:45:30) & “Ballad of a Thin Man” ({Real Live version}; 03:49:00; Bob Dylan).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Chazz Palminteri
Topics include: A Bronx Tale, Yankees, theater, Bullets Over Broadway, Robert De Niro.
Segment aired Nov. 15, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 485th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 22, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Chazz Palminteri. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (Murder in Jerusalem), Inside Broadway, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Old Tea), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Rolling Thunder), Saturday Segues (Randy Newman, Thanksgiving Feast).
Guests: actor Chazz Palminteri, Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (Oofty’s Nuts, UNC’s perks, Waste Management Phoenix Open, winter blues, bad-news Bears, Boing!, bad Bard) 01:32:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Randy Newman 01:54:00 Sponsors 01:59:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Chazz Palminteri 02:31:00 Friends 02:36:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 03:02:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #13 (Old Tea) 03:04:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Rolling Thunder 03:30:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #111 – Murder in Jerusalem 03:39:00 Weather 03:42:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Thanskgiving Feast 04:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 22, 2014 Playlist: “Laugh and Be Happy” (01:34:30), “Shining” (01:37:00), “Real Emotional Girl” (01:43:30) & “Losing You” (01:46:00; Randy Newman). “Have You Seen My Baby” (Chris Smither; 01:41:00). “Disc Jockey” (02:41:00; Mike Nichols & Elaine May). “Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here with You” ({live 1975 version}, 03:09:00), “Isis” ({Live 1975 version}, 03:16:00) & “Sara” ({live 1975 version}, 03:21:00; Bob Dylan). “Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind” ({live} 03:13:00; Bob Dylan & Joan Baez). “A Lonely Grain of Corn” (03:43:00; Uncle Bonsai). “Pumpkin Soup” (03:46:30; Kate Nash). “Turkey in the Straw” (03:49:30; Neil Morris & Charlie Everidge). “Squash” (03:51:30; Townes Van Zandt). “Saving Grace” (03:53:30; The Cranberries). “Thank You Friends” (04:03:30; Big Star).
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews songwriter Daniel Cainer
Topics include: The Jewish Chronicles, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Germany.
Segment scheduled to air Nov. 15, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 17, 2014.
Merry Christmas, non-Jewish listeners! A very merry Christmas and Yuletide to all the goyim within the sound of my strident voice! Jingle bells, glad tidings, joyeux Noel – whatever the hell that means — Merry Chris — wait, what? You mean it’s not Christmas? You mean it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, and Christmas is a month and a half away?
Well, you wouldn’t know it. Not from the TV commercials. Not from the music they play in the department stores. Not from the displays in Walgreens and Walmart and K-Mart and K.Y. and why is it Christmas already when it isn’t December 25th for another 35 days?
We all know why, of course. It’s because America needs to sell you crap as much and as often as possible. The home shopping networks and the mall shopping outlets want to get you in the money-spending spirit as soon as they can. If they could start next year’s holiday sales on December 26th at midnight, they would. In fact, they already almost do. In the middle of July, QVC and HLN and the CIA are doing infomercials for ornaments. “Make sure you order them now, people, so they arrive by August — just in time for Christmas.”
As a Jew, but not just as a Jew, but mainly as a Jew, I object to all this haranguing, day after day after day over a holiday I do not believe in and couldn’t care less about. You wanna put up some lights on the weekend before Christmas, and maybe start the Ruh-puh-pum-pum on your drum a week or two before the holiday? Be my guest, and buy me something nice. But stop with the Yuletide cheer when I haven’t even gotten all the matzoh out of my colon from Passover yet!
I have spoken before and elsewhere about the pressure Jews feel to morph Chanukah into a Yuletide-like holiday…Chrismakkah…a concept which fills me with enough loathing to stuff a Santa suit. They are not similar holidays; they are not equivalent holidays. And yet, because they fall at the same time of year, Yiddlach feel compelled to match their neighbors gift for gift, light for light, stupid singalong for stupid singalong. The only thing that keeps me from jamming hot knitting needles through my eardrums this time of year is Adam Sandler, and even that song wears out its welcome by its third spin. Try playing “Here Comes Chanukah” as often as Rite Aid plays “The Christmas Song,” and you’ll want to open every bottle in the pharmacy and swallow till the pain stops.
Holiday overkill is bad enough two or three weeks out of the year, but a whole month? You got radio stations that play only Christmas music. Some stores block off entire sections for stocking stuffers the day after Labor Day. Just stop it! Stop it! Nobody’s roasting chestnuts on an open anything. If grandma’s getting run over, it’s by grandpa’s Rascal, not a reindeer.
And I know Christmas is an excuse for people to do nice things and feel good about themselves. Soldiers stuck in a sandpit in Trashcanistan have a chance to come home and see their families because it’s Christmas. Why the army can’t do that on Groundhog Day just the same is beyond me, but okay. It’s like supermarkets that give the destitute free turkey on Thanksgiving. Fantastic — homeless people have a dozen meal options on Thanksgiving Day. The day after Thanksgiving? Pfftth. Back to 99-cent pizza and Spaghettios.
Still, if we use the holiday as an impetus to be better humans and do more good, even the cranky, miserable misanthrope in me cannot object to that. But the time leading up to the holiday is about nothing more than marketing and selling and forced, fake, phony good cheer. It’s all too much, too soon, and if I sound like the Grinch, so be it. Especially since I’m not trying to steal Christmas. I just want to hide it for awhile, like the Afikomen, so that, as an accountant would say, the interest appreciates.
No Marine comes home on special leave November 8th. Nobody’s donating cans to the food bank on December 12th. We’re subjected to the hype but not the help. I say, if big business must turn Christmas into a season-long capitalist orgy, at least give out condoms of compassion to go with it.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Ooh, only 288 shopping days until Simchas Torah!
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Here is the 484th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 15, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer-songwriter Daniel Cainer(The Jewish Chronicles); Inside Broadway; Saturday Segues (frozen, Bjork); The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Coppola); Dylan – Sooner & Later (Carnegie Hall); Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical reflection on Christmas in November.
Guests: actor-musician Daniel Cainer, Dave’s wife Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil – The Blackout 00:41:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frozen 01:09:00 Sponsors 01:20:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Daniel Cainer 02:12:30 Friends 02:20:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (News (02:21:00), You Can’t Take it with You (02:39:00)) 02:53:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Coppola 02:56:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Carnegie Hall 03:20:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #110 – Christmas in November 03:27:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Bjork 03:49:30 Weather 03:51:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 15, 2014 Playlist: “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” (00:41:30; Bruce Springsteen). “Freeze” ({live}, 00:44:30; Robyn Hitchcock). “The Frozen Man” (00:49:30; James Taylor). “Frozen Warnings” (00:54:30; Nico w/ John Cale). “Frozen Jap” (00:59:30; Paul McCartney). “How We’re Blessed” (01:16:00), “Bad Rabbi” (01:28:30) & “Under the Table” (02:03:30; Daniel Cainer). “All the Wasted Time” (02:48:30; Parade, 1996 Broadway cast w/ Brent Carver & Carolee Carmello) “North Country Blues” ({live}, 03:00:00), “With God on Our Side” ({live}, 03:04:30) & “The Times They are A-Changin'” (03:11:00; Bob Dylan). “Hot Meat” (03:29:30; The Sugarcubes). (03:33:00), “Miovikudags” (03:38:00), “Frosti” (03:39:30) & “Bachelorette” ({live}, (03:41:00); Bjork). “Who Knows Where Time Goes” (03:53:30; Sylvie Simmons).
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