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Here is episode #1020 of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 14, 2026.
Featuring: Greeley Times; Bunion Watch; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Clayton); Song: “The Worst Song Ever Written”; Dave’s Big Dictionary (Canoodle); StoryTime (“Ann’s Big Muffin”); Wretched Pun of Destiny (English King).
Guest: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Olympic curling, Yule Log, capybaras, Judit Polgar 01:09:30 BUNION WATCH 01:12:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: salad, jury duty 01:33:30 GREELEY TIMES 02:00:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: canoodle 02:15:00 Cornhole Break! 02:22:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #201: Noam Chomsky 02:35:00 STORYTIME: Leslie McGuire’s “Ann’s Big Muffin” 02:45:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:59:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #95: English King 03:03:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Clayton, CO 03:06:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 14, 2026 Playlist: “The Worst Song Ever Written” (02:29:30; Dave)
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Here is the 640th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook and UNC Radio, Feb. 10, 2018. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: author Mike Peters (The Cornfield), Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave chats with Greeley Tribune columnist Mike Peters. Plus: Inside Broadway, Dave’s Big Dictionary (bottom), Saturday Segue (Valentine’s Day, In the News).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:01:00 GUEST: Mike Peters w/ Joyce 00:29:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES w/ Mike Peters 01:04:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Olympics) 01:12:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:36:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Valentine’s Day 02:03:30 Friends 02:13:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 02:55:30 Weather 02:58:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (bottom) 03:12:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 10, 2018 Playlist: “Daily News” (01:00:30; Tom Paxton). “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (01:34:30; “Frasier” w/ John Mahoney). “Dedicated to the One I Love” (01:38:00; The Mamas and the Papas). “Extra Love” (01:41:30; Michael Hurley). “If Love Were All” {live} (01:44:30; Rufus Wainwright). “The Lovers are Here and They’re Full of Sweat” (01:47:00; Jonathan Richman). “Love You Till the Day” (01:50:00; It Shoulda Been You 2015 Broadway cast). “I Stand Corrected” (02:14:00; Vampire Weekend). “Hey Porter” (02:17:00; Johnny Cash). “Two Trains Running” (02:19:00; Dave Van Ronk). “The Music Never Stopped” (02:22:30; Grateful Dead). “In a Parade” (02:27:00; Paul Simon). “Tesla’s Hotel Room” (02:29:30; The Handsome Family). “The Loving” (03:19:00; XTC).
(pictured: Mike Peters, his book, and his Greeley Tribune column, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Happy Valentine’s Day!) Download video file of audio content WATCH IN-STUDIO VIDEO OF THE SHOW:
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Here is the 545th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 13, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor-director Gabriel Barre. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (in the news, Peter Gabriel), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Wretched Pun of Destiny (mad scientist), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Dylfunkel)
Guests: director Gabriel Barre, Dave’s wife Joyce.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (library room, footbinding, Cyramilton, Dylan’s voice, Starmites,) 00:41:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:32:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Peter Gabriel 01:54:00 Sponsors 02:00:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:30:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Gabriel Barre 03:28:00 Weather 03:32:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Dylfunkel) 03:46:00 SKIT: Bob Dylan for WaxVac 03:58:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Mad Scientist 04:02:00 Friends 04:29:30 Thanks 04:35:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Valentine’s Day) 04:40:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 13, 2016 Playlist: “Abandoned Love” (01:24:00) & “The Boxer” (03:47:30; Bob Dylan). “Higher” (02:26:30; Lea Salonga). “Starmites” (03:22:00; Starmites on the 1989 Tony Awards). “Mercy Street” (01:35:30) & “More than This” (01:45:30; Peter Gabriel). “Voices of Freedom” (01:40:00; Lou Reed w/ Peter Gabriel & Youssou n’dour). “The Sound of Silence” (03:39:00; Bob Dylan & Paul Simon). “The Times They are a-Changin'” (03:50:30; Simon & Garfunkel). “This is All Very New to Me” (04:14:30; Carol Lawrence). “All Alone on the Road” (04:16:30; Paul Tracey). “Our Kind of Love” (04:20:00; The Beautiful Game 2000 UK cast w/ Hannah Waddingham). “To Love Somebody” (04:24:00; The Flying Burrito Brothers). “The Sound that Love Makes” (04:41:30; Sarah McLachlan).
Here is the 457th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 8, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress Dee Wallace. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on SodaStream and ScarJo. Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (advertising), Inside Broadway and Saturday Segues (Robert Klein, Valentine’s Day)
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress Dee Wallace, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (davorites, stupor bowl, waxvac, Leno) 00:39:00 Dave in Plays (w/ Joyce Weil) 01:05:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Robert Klein 01:29:00 Sponsors 01:35:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:59:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Dee Wallace 02:51:30 More Sponsors 02:55:00 Friends 03:03:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (advertising) 03:34:00 Weather 03:42:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #91 (SodaStream & Scarjo) 03:54:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Valentine’s Day 04:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 8, 2014 Playlist: “The Borscht Belt” (01:08:00), “Public Service Commercials” (01:10:30), “F.M. Disc Jockey” (01:12:00), “Fear is the Greatest Salesman” (01:15:00), “School Assembly” (01:18:00) & “Young People’s Guide to the Orchestra” (01:21:00). “How it Ends” (Big Fish 2013 Bway cast w/ Norbert Leo Butz; 01:55:30). “I Want You” (03:06:30), “Things Have Changed” (03:09:30), “All I Really Want to Do” ({Live at Budokan version}; 03:14:30), “Love Sick” (03:20:00) & “Forever Young” (03:26:30; Bob Dylan). “Golden Protest” (03:18:30; National Lampoon). “Bob Dylan for WaxVac” (Dave Lefkowitz; 03:25:00). “Love is Everything” (Mark Cote; 03:58:00). “Hallelujah, I Love Her So” (04:02:30; Ray Charles). “The Love Song” (04:08:00; Donovan). “Loving Cup” ({alternate take}; 04:19:00; The Rolling Stones).
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #56 (2/10/2013): Valentine’s Day
aired February 9th, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/yK-2Mmg9-yk
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of February 10th, 2013.
Would you be my Valentine? Actually, you’re wise if you wouldn’t. St. Valentine, upon whom the Valentine’s Day holiday is kind of, sort of, not exactly really based, was a possibly apocryphal figure – well, all the saints were apocryphal to Yids like me. But if you’re a goy, and you believe in such stories, St. Valentine was one of two things: He was either a composite of a couple of different saints because he was so undistinguished as a saint himself. Or he was a good guy, a hard-working believer – who was clubbed to death and martyred on February 14th. Either way, who the hell wants to be him?
As for Valentine’s Day itself, very likely it was the Catholic Church’s response to a pagan celebration – the feast of Lupercal. Personally, I think Sustacal and Metrecal are more slimming. But the point is, the church couldn’t have some idolatrous holiday interfering with their practice, so like Halloween and Christmas, they morphed the comical into something canonical.
How did hearts and cupids and $180 Zales receipts creep into it? I have no idea, but I’m glad they did, because it makes Valentine’s Day a holiday everyone can celebrate. That human beings need an excuse to express affection is a sad thing. But if one day of the year, you can turn to your partner or spouse or well-paid escort and say, “I love you. Thank you for all you bring to my life. Please pick up some rye bread on the way home.” That’s a beautiful thing.
I realize that for those who are alone and lonely, Valentine’s can be a hollow holiday indeed. Seeing all those Hallmark cards in the Rite Aid, watching couples on the street holding hands, watching couples in porn holding glands, and finding 2-for-1 restaurant coupons in the Sunday paper, then wondering if it’s worth the embarrassment to go solo and put the second entrée in a doggie bag.
My single friends, I feel your pain. It’s just below the ribcage and spasms uncontrollably, but it’s okay, I’m on medication. The solution for everyone is to not look at Valentine’s Day as just for romantic couples. It’s for everyone who has loved you or you have loved in the course of your travels: family, neighbors, pets, inflatable dolls with lifelike genitalia. As Stephen Stills once put it, “Love the one you’re with.” Just make sure you have warm towels and a disinfectant.
And let us not forget that Valentine’s Day now has a whole other context thanks to The Vagina Monologues. Eve Ensler’s play about women and their nether parts became a global phenomenon. And now, February 14th is a day to protest violence and abuse against women, for women themselves to take pride in their achievements, and, of course, for us all to pay tribute to those hairy little pusselehs.
So let this and every Valentine’s Day be not just about $70 restaurants and 7-11 roses, but mutual appreciation. A day of smiles, and hugs, and thank yous and vaginas. If you’re lucky, not necessarily in that order.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Here is the 411th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 9, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Broadway director and lyricist Martin Charnin (Annie, Two By Two); a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration with love songs, hate songs, Dylan songs, and Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on the holiday; Inside Broadway; Dave Says Bye to Reg Presley of The Troggs.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Martin Charnin
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:15:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Love Songs 00:46:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Martin Charnin 01:45:30 Sponsors 01:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:05:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Valentine’s Day) 02:39:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #056 – Valentine’s Day 02:43:30 DAVE SAYS BYE to Reg Presley 02:56:00 Friends 03:01:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Hate Songs 03:19:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 9, 2013 Playlist: “Silver & Gold” (00:16:00; Neil Young). “Me About You” (00:19:00; The Turtles). “Kiss” (00:21:30; Richard Thompson). “I Live for You” (00:25:30; George Harrison). “True Love Leaves No Traces” (00:29:00; Leonard Cohen). “Stay in Touch” (00:33:30; Joni Mitchell). “Love Colours” (00:36:30; The Pretenders). “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” (00:46:30), “Tomorrow” (01:23:00) & “Maybe” (01:34:00) (Annie, 1999 TV film). “Ninety Again” (01:00:00), “An Old Man” (01:08:00) & “Two By Two” (01:40:00; Two By Two, 1970 Broadway cast w/ Danny Kaye & Joan Copeland). “Annie Ain’t Just Annie Anymore” (01:30:00; Annie Warbucks, off-Broadway cast). “Betrayed” (02:01:30; Lou Reed). “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (02:06:30), “I Want You” ({live at Budokan version}; 02:10:00), “Sara” (02:12:30), “I’m in the Mood for You” (02:18:00), “Lay Lady Lay” (02:21:00), “Wedding Song” (02:24:00) & “This Dream of You” (02:29:00; Bob Dylan). “Love is All Around” (02:43:30), “I Want You” (02:46:00), “Any Way You Want Me” (02:48:30), “Wild Thing” (02:51:00; The Troggs w/ Reg Presley). “I Don’t Really Love You Anymore” (03:04:00; The Magnetic Fields). “Living Without You” (03:06:30; Randy Newman). “Can’t We Be Friends” (03:09:00; Frank Sinatra). “Old Maid in the Garrett” (The Clancy Brothers; 03:11:30). “I’m Thru with Love” (03:14:00; Nat King Cole). “Green Valentine Blues” (03:24:00; Allen Ginsberg).
Writer-Director Martin CharninDanny Kaye with Joan Copeland in Two By TwoReg PresleyValentine’s DayRabbi Sol Solomon
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Here is the 207th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Feb. 11, 2007. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guests: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews sex educator Karinna Kittles-Karsten
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon cozies up to sex and love expert Karinna Kittles-Karsten. Plus: Inside Broadway & GrimSpa with Anna Nicole.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:11:00 SEX AND THE MARRIED RABBI: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews “love educator” Karinna Kittles-Karsten 00:44:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 00:57:00 SKIT: GrimSpa, with Anna Nicole 01:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT
February 11, 2007 Playlist: “(Get Up) I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (James Brown), “Symphony in Blue” (Kate Bush), “Big Time Sensuality” (Bjork).
Karinna Kittles-KarstenAnna Nicole SmithRabbi Sol Solomon
Here is the 114th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Feb. 10, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: Dave’s wife, Joyce
Featuring: A Valentine’s show featuring Dave’s wife, Joyce. Plus: Inside Broadway, the World Weird Web and Dave’s song, The Worst Date I Ever Done Had.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:10:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Romantic Shows 00:19:00 WORLD WEIRD WEB – Love Guppy 00:30:00 DAVE’S GOT GUESTS – Joyce (aka Mrs. Dave) 00:49:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 10, 2005 Playlist: “The Worst Date I Ever Done Had” (Dave, unreleased), “Love Power” (“The Producers,” soundtrack), “Adam & Eve” (October Project).
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Here is the 64th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, Feb. 9, 2004. More info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: Rabbi Sol Solomon (spiritual leader, Temple Sons of Bitches, Great Neck, NY)
Featuring: Dave celebrates Valentine’s Day with the News Gone By and a romantic medley. Plus: Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Sol Solomon.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN: The search for a new greeting; Ticket giveaway; Get Ready to `Ask the Rabbi’ 00:14:00 NEWS GONE BY: Ricin Riceout; Schumer’s Causes; Janet n’ Justin (Frivolous Lawsuit Time); Tower Tumbles; Chinese Stampede; Chinese Takeaway; Moo-lah; Martha Stewart & Flaccidex; Broadway Blues; Diamond Dungs; Crude Oil; Virginity for Sale; Men in Skirts; Split-Level Dead 00:34:00 SKIT: ASK THE RABBI: Rabbi Sol Solomon on Valentine’s Day, Love & taking listeners’ phone calls. 00:55:00 VALENTINE MEDLEY: Love Songs, of sorts 01:15:00 DAVE GOES OUT: Thank yous, Update on Steve the Whistler & October Project.
February 9, 2004 Playlist: “When I’m 64” (Beatles); “Mazeltov Dances” (Mickey Katz); “Little Thing Called Love” (Neil Young); “Some Kinda Love” (Velvet Underground); “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” (Bruce Cockburn). “Lover’s Walk” (Elvis Costello); “Message of Love” (Pretenders); “If I Could” (October Project).
Here is the 640th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook and UNC Radio, Feb. 10, 2018. Info: davesgoneby.com.
(pictured: with all my heart, Joyce)
