Dave’s Gone By #605 (5/13/2017): DIRECTOR’S CUT

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Here is the 605th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired May 13, 2007. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: wellness coach and former film editor Carlyn Montes de Oca, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews film editor Carlyn Montes de Oca. Plus: Greeley Crimes and Old Times, Saturday Segues (Mother’s Day, In the News), Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (moms)

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (yard sale, headcold, bangaluru)

00:32:00 Sponsors
00:33:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Rang de Basanti, X it)
00:49:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:22:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Mother’s Day
01:55:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:56:00) & review (02:15:00; Oslo))
02:29:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carlyn Montes de Oca
03:19:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (moms)
03:34:00 Friends
03:43:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:21:00 Weather
04:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 13, 2017 Playlist: “Rang de Basanti” (00:33:30). “Mother” (01:23:30; Danzig). “Mothers” (01:27:30; Daughter). “Mom Says” (01:34:00; Low). “Ode to My Family” (01:39:30; The Cranberries). “Mommy for a Day” (01:44:00; Kitty Wells). “When You’re Good to Mama” (01:46:30; Chicago 1975 Broadway cast w/ Mary McCarty). “Mother’s Prayer” (01:49:30; Washington Phillips). “Hosanna” (02:26:00 Jesus Christ Superstar 1992 London cast w/ Paul Nicholas). “Let’s Stick Together” (03:19:00), “Obviously Five Believers {Take 3}” (03:22:00) & “Ragged & Dirty” (03:26:00; Bob Dylan). “France” (03:44:00; The Grateful Dead). “Fired” (03:48:00; Ben Folds). “Spirit in the Dark” (03:52:00; Aretha Franklin). “Security” (03:56:00; Otis Redding). “Motherly Love” (04:28:30; Frank Zappa).


(pictured: Carlyn Montes de Oca, Mother’s Day, Jennifer Ehle & Jefferson Mays in Oslo)

Dave’s Gone By #556 (5/7/2016): THE MAYFLOWER

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Here is the 556th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired May 7, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Inside Broadway (Tony nominations), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Refection (Donald Trump), Saturday Segues (In the News, Robert Johnson), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (moms), Greeley Crimes & Old Times.

Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (graduation day)
00:22:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (Robert Johnson)
00:42:30 Sponsors
00:50:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (Tony nominations)
01:51:30 Sponsors
01:54:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (moms)
02:16:00 Friends
02:31:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #139 (Donald Trump)
02:41:00 Weather
02:42:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News)
03:09:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:37:00 DAVE GOES OUT w/ Joyce

May 8, 2016 Playlist: “Terraplane Blues” (00:27:30; Canned Heat). “Stones in My Passway” (00:30:30) & “Love in Vain Blues (Alternate)” (00:35:30; Robert Johnson). “Malted Milk Blues” (00:33:00; Lucinda Williams). “If I were a Rich Man” (01:43:00; Fiddler on the Roof 2016 Broadway cast w/ Danny Burstein). “Lonesome Day Blues” (01:56:30), “Tough Mama” (02:04:00) & “Lord Protect My Child” (02:08:00; Bob Dylan). “Candidate” ({alternate version] 02:43:30; David Bowie). “Alberta” (02:48:30; The Kingston Trio). “My Mother’s Brisket” (02:51:00; Rick Moranis). “Dead Flowers” ({alternate version} 02:55:00; The Rolling Stones).

Robert Johnson
Donald Trump
2016 Tony Nominations

Dave’s Gone By #515 (6/27/2015): SUPREME

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Here is the 515th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 27, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Antonin Scalia. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Wretched Pun of Destiny (Mrs. Disney), My Sick Mind (Trump), Dylan – Sooner & Later (blues), Saturday Segues (mom & In the News)

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (egg supreme, no guests, 515, wedding speech)
00:44:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:11:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (second cousin, belly vs. uterus)
01:22:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – mom
01:45:00 Friends
02:05:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #128 (Scalia)
02:11:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:30:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #42 (Mrs. Disney)
02:32:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (blues)
02:53:00 Weather
02:56:30 MY SICK MIND (Trump)
03:01:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:29:30 Thanks & Sponsors
03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 27, 2015 Playlist: “Brenda’s Got a Baby” (01:22:30; Tupac Shakur). “Solomon Song” (01:26:30; The Threepenny Opera 1954 off-Broadway cast w/ Lotte Lenya). “Momsong” (01:29:00; The Be Good Tanyas). “Happy Mama” (01:34:30; Hugh Masekela). “I Like My Mother” (01:39:30; Art Paul Schlosser). Dave interviews Dick Van Patten (01:47:30; 2007 excerpt). “Misery” (02:28:30; Professor Longhair). “Dirt Road Blues” (02:34:00), “Down in the Flood” ({live}; 02:37:30), “It Takes a Man to Laugh (It Takes a Train to Cry)” (02:41:00) & “Blind Willie McTell” (02:45:00; Bob Dylan). “Jubilation T. Cornpone” (03:02:30; “Li’l Abner” 1959 film soundtrack w/ Stubby Kaye). “The Great Health Care Trial Balloon” (03:06:00; Capitol Steps). “South of the Border” (03:09:00; Patsy Cline). “Marrying for Love” (03:11:00; Call Me Madam 1950 Broadway cast w/ Ethel Merman). “The Mercy Seat” ({live}; 03:14:00; Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). “Wedding Day” (03:44:30; Ian McLagan & The Bump Band).

Mr. & Mrs. Disney
Antonin Scalia
Donald Trump
mom `n me

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/7/2015): PHILIP & BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews his dad and mom, Philip and Brenda Lefkowitz

Topics include: family, air force, military.

Segment aired March 7, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 500th Anniversary Special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021. 

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Dave’s Gone By #468 (5/10/2014): FERR INSTANCE

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Here is the 468th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 10, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Frank Ferrante. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Bobby Gregg), Dave on “Coffee with Cudmore,” Saturday Segues (Donovan, moms)

Guests: actor Frank Ferrante, radio host Bob Cudmore, Dave’s wife Joyce 

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (commencement, self-branding, comps, fish puns)
01:02:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Donovan
01:33:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – part 1: news (01:33:30)
01:54:30 Dave on Coffee with Cudmore (w/ Bob Cudmore)
02:11:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – part 2: review (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
02:25:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Frank Ferrante
03:15:30 Sponsors
03:18:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bobby Gregg)
03:44:30 Sponsors
03:47:00 Friends
03:52:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Moms
04:12:30 Weather
04:15:00 Upcoming
04:18:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 10, 2014 Playlist: “Wet Dream” (00:48:00; Kip Adotta). “Sunshine Superman” (01:07:00), “The Trip” (01:10:30), “Donna Donna” (01:15:00) & “To Susan on the West Coast Waiting” (01:21:30; Donovan). “Happiness Runs” (01:18:00; Christine Lavin). “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” (Sarah McLachlan; 01:24:30). “Greenfinch and Linnet Bird” (02:19:30; Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway cast). Excerpts from “An Evening with Groucho” (02:21:30; Frank Ferrante). “Everyone Says I Love You” (03:12:00; Groucho Marx). “Like a Rolling Stone” (03:22:00), “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” (03:28:30), “Tombstone Blues” (03:31:00) & “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later”) (03:37:00; Bob Dylan). “Mommy Daddy You and I” (03:52:30; Talking Heads). “Mom Song” (03:56:30; Passing Strange 2005 Broadway cast w/ Stew & Eisa Davis). “Mom & Pop” (03:59:00; Lewis Black). “Lawdy Mama” (04:00:30; Edgar Blanchard). “Mama’s Talkin’ Soft” (04:02:30; Gypsy 1959 Broadway cast w/ Laura Leslie). “Octomom” (04:05:30; Capitol Steps w/ Janet Davidson Gordon). “You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night” (04:07:30; Carol Channing). “Dear Mama” (04:21:00; Eric Andersen).

Frank Ferrante and friend
Donovan
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Bobby Gregg
mother’s day
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Dave’s Gone By #429 (6/29/2013): JAYTALKING

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Here is the 429th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 29, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with comic actor Jay Rogers (When Pigs Fly). Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (mom’s birthday), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (momma), Rabbi Sol on taking his stage show to Greeley, CO.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: comic actor Jay Rogers

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:46:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:11:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jay Rogers
01:50:00 Sponsors & Weather
01:57:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Momma
02:24:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #72 – Shalom Dammit! in Greeley, CO
02:30:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Mom’s Birthday
02:56:30 Thanks & Friends
03:06:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Devil Dogs
03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 29, 2013 Playlist: “Mama” (00:11:00; Electric Light Orchestra). “Mama” (00:18:00; The Sugarcubes). “Momma, Momma, Momma” (00:21:00; I Can Get it for You Wholesale (1962 Broadway cast w/ Elliott Gould). “Now I’m Your Mom” (00:24:00; David Byrne). “I Love My Mom” (00:28:30; The Roches). “Mother’s Day” (00:32:30; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010 Broadway cast w/ Sherie Renee Scott). “Mother Dear” (00:37:30; The Divine Comedy). “Rush” (01:09:00), “Cupid’s Arrow” (01:28:00) & “Laughing Matters” (01:37:00; When Pigs Fly off-Broadway cast w/ Jay Rogers). “Eat, Drink and Be Mary” (01:46:00; Jay Rogers). “Tell Me, Momma” (01:58:00), “Pretty Peggy-O” (02:02:30), “Ain’t Talkin’ ({alternate version} 02:06:00), “Call Letter Blues” (02:12:00) & “Highway 61 Revisited” (02:16:00; Bob Dylan). “Party Doll” (02:28:30; Buddy Knox). “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (02:35:00; Perry Como). “Earth Angel” (02:38:00; The Penguins). Chopin’s “Prelude in E Minor” (02:40:30; Carmen Dragon Hollywood Symphony Orchestra). “Borchi Nafshi” (02:45:00; Shlomo Carlebach). “Come On a My House” (02:47:30; Mickey Katz).

Jay Rogers
Bob Dylan and his mom
mom’s manna from heaven

Dave’s Gone By #353 (5/7/2011): RACK AND RUANE

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Here is the 353rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 7, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: editor Benjamin Welch (UNC Mirror) and author John Ruane, radio host Bob Cudmore

Featuring: Dave chats with college newspaper editor Benjamin Welch and political pundit John Ruane (“The Wizards of Spin”). Plus: Inside Broadway (news, nominations & reviews), Saturday Segue (mother songs), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (mothers), Dave’s appearance on WVTL’s “Coffee with Bob Cudmore,” and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the death of Osama bin Laden.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Osama
00:22:30 GUEST: Benjamin Welch
00:45:30 DAVE on “Coffee with Cudmore” w/ Bob Cudmore (WVTL-AM 1570, taped 5/3/11)
00:58:00 INSIDE BROADWAY, pt. 1 – Tony Nominations
01:14:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (mothers)
01:40:00 GUEST: John Ruane
02:30:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection – Dead! Dead! Dead!
02:40:00 INSIDE BROADWAY, pt. 2 – Obits (02:40:00) & Reviews (Potato Needs a Bath (02:52:00) & War Horse (02:55:30)
03:04:30 SATURDAY SEGUE: Mothers
03:17:30 Friends & Thank Yous
03:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 7, 2011 Playlist: (part one) “Gimme Some Truth” (00:18:00; John Lennon); “Ain’t That News” (00:43:30; Tom Paxton); “Tell Me, Momma” (01:14:30), “Mama, You Been on My Mind” (w/ Joan Baez; 01:19:30), “Shake Shake Mama” (01:22:30), “Tough Mama” (01:26:00); “Call Letter Blues” (01:30:00) & “Clothes Line Saga” (01:34:30; Bob Dylan); “Turn on the News” (02:26:00; Husker Du); “Small World” (02:37:00; Gypsy 1959 Bway cast w/ Ethel Merman); “A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing” (02:48:00; Promises, Promises, 1968 Bway cast w/ Jerry Orbach & Marian Mercer); “Your Mother Should Know” (03:04:30; rehearsal version); “Your Mother’s Here to Stay” (03:07:30; Allan Sherman); “Mother” (03:10:00; Tiny Tim); “Mother Dear” (03:12:30; The Divine Comedy); “What Would My Mama Say” (Roger Miller; 03:24:30).


 Pictured from top: John Ruane, UNC Mirror newspaper, Osama bin Laden, 2011 staff of the UNC Mirror (Dave – front row, second from left; Benjamin Welch – back row, third from right), Bob Cudmore, Tony Award, John Ruane’s “The Wizards of Spin,”  War Horse, Shona Reppe in Potato Needs a Bath.

Dave’s Gone By #172 (5/14/2006): MOTHER FOLKER

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Here is the 172nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, May 14, 2006. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guests: Peter Fitzgerald (Vice President of WGLFAR, the Woodmere Gay/Lesbian Front..and Rear) and author Tim Ward (“Savage Breast”).

Featuring: WGLFAR’s Peter Fitzgerald chats with author Tim Ward (“Savage Breast”). Plus: Dave sings the Mother song and goes off on Bombs n’ Rats.

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00  GUEST: Peter Fitzgerald interviews author Tim Ward (“Savage Breast”)
00:36:00  DAVE GOES OFF – Bombs n’ Rats
00:52:00  DAVE GOES OUT 

May 14, 2006 Playlist: “M-O-T-H-E-R” (Dave), “Motherly Love” (Frank Zappa). 

Tim Ward
your host

Dave’s Gone By #75 (5/6/2004): MAMARAMA

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Here is the 75th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which on NY’s WGBB-AM, aired May 6, 2004.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Dave celebrates Mother’s Day with the Mama Medley. Plus: the satirical News Gone By and a subservient chicken on the World Weird Web.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN
00:07:00  WORLD WEIRD WEB – Subservient Chicken
00:17:00  NEWS GONE BY
00:40:00  MAMA MEDLEY
00:52:00  DAVE GOES OUT

May 6, 2004 Playlist: “You’re Gonna Get Yours” (Public Enemy); various artists excerpted in “Mama Medley” (edited by Dave, unreleased).

Subservient Chicken

Dave’s Gone By #32 (5/11/2003): HI MOM!

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Here is the 32nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio May 11, 2003. 

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: A Mother’s Day tribute with the satirical News Gone By. Plus: Dave’s Tony Award predictions and the original songs “M.O.T.H.E.R” and “The Ballad of Pete Townshend”

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN: Mothering Sunday, Super Bowl score.
00:13:00  NEWS GONE BY: Bennett takes a gamble, the Vampire Les Miz, Manson’s lingerie, Shatner’s horse, Bloomberg’s boy, Dead man of the mountain, Look Ma – No Arm!, “Diddle With Dave,” Indecent Rabbinical Proposal, Massapequa Goes for (Spring) Broke (Bad Pun of the Week); Pete Townshend Cums Clean, Monkey Ssshines, Nude Union, Congo Cargo, Dinner Cops, Skip to I-Loo.
00:40:00  Dave talks Tonys and plays more “Mother” songs.
00:52:00  DAVE GOES OUT: Thanks mom!

May 11, 2003 Playlist: “Your Mother Should Know” (Beatles, 5:00), “Motherly Love” (Frank Zappa, 8:00), “The Ballad of Pete Townshend” (Dave Lefkowitz; performed by Scott Rodolitz, 30:00), “M.O.T.H.E.R” (Dave, 45:00), “When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy” (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 40:00), “Oedipus Rex” (Tom Lehrer).

Pete Townshend
your host