Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2022): BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with his mom, BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

Topics include: New Year’s Eve,  

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2022 as part of the “Daverhood New Year” special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Brenda Lefkowitz

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2021): BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with his mother, BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

Topics include: New Year’s Eve. 

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2021 as part of the “Daverhood New Year” special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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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 #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 #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 Interview (12/31/2007): PHILIP & BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Joined by co-host Jeff Goodman and Dave’s wife Joyce during the special New Year’s Eve broadcast, Dave Lefkowitz chats with his parents, Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz

Topics include: New Year’s.

Segment originally aired live Dec. 31, 2007 and was then rebroadcast Aug. 3, 2008 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 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 Interview (5/13/2007): KAREN QUINN

Dave Lefkowitz interviews “Wife in the Fast Lane” author Karen Quinn

Topics include: writing feminism.

Segment originally aired May 13, 2007 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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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
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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
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