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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Molly Ringwald
Topics include: John Hughes, jazz, swing, Brat Pack. Segment scheduled to air April 30, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-songwriter Tom Chapin
Topics include: Harry Chapin, Pete Seeger, children’s music, fracking. Segment scheduled to air April 2, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Graham Parker
Topics include: rock, Mystery Glue, Stiff Records. Segment aired April 16, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 57th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Feb. 20, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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57. Bob Dylan and Moby are touring together and stay overnight in upstate New York. In the morning, they decide to visit an apple orchard and pick fruit. They have a fabulous time until early afternoon, when Moby returns to his trailer to work on some music.
Dylan stays behind and takes a tour of the facilities—specifically where the owners bottle their homemade juice and cider. They love showing the rock star their warehouse and the giant outdoor drums where apples are turned into different beverages. So eager is Dylan to get a look at the inner workings of the equipment that he leans too far over a giant cider tub and falls in. The tub’s only a quarter full, so drowning’s not an issue, but it is gross because floating on the surface of the cider are all these tiny brown pellets.
“This is insect poop, isn’t it?” Dylan calls up to the workmen.
“How’d you know?” they yell back.
“This happened to me before, also in the northeast.”
“You’re right,” shout the workmen. “This time of year, we get infested with praying mantises, and they poop all over the place. Now hold on for a few minutes, and we’ll find a ladder to help you climb out.”
Dylan agrees, and while he’s waiting for the workmen to return, his cell phone rings.
“Bob!” says Moby on the phone. “We’re onstage in three hours. Where are you?”
“Well,” says Dylan, “remember what happened that time in Vermont with the apples and the insects?”
“Oh, no!,” says Moby. “You fell in the juice tub?”
“That’s right,” says Dylan. “I’m Stuck in Cider, Moby, with the Mantis Poos Again.”
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Mike Agranoff
Topics include: folk music, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, concertina, The Sandman.
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Here is the 541st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 16, 2016. Info: Dave’s Gone By.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Mike Agranoff; Rabbi Sol reflects on David Bowie; Saturday Segue (Bowie); Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: musician Mike Agranoff, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (busy Joyce, Linked In, lotta death) 00:25:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:55:00 Sponsors 00:59:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – David Bowie 01:37:30 Sponsors 01:41:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:13:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #135 – David Bowie 02:19:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interview Mike Agranoff 03:44:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Planet Tracks) 04:04:00 Weather 04:07:00 Friends 04:16:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 16, 2016 Playlist: “When I Live My Dream” (01:13:00), “Sorrow” (01:16:30), “Dollar Days” (01:23:00), “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon” (01:28:00), “Lazarus” (02:08:30) & “`Heroes'” (04:23:00; David Bowie). “Tonight” (01:19:30; Iggy Pop). “The Modern Folk Musician” (02:19:00), “New York Central Yard” (02:30:30), “Road Jigs” (02:39:30), “Diana Hanson/Parting Glass” (02:43:30), “The Highway” ({live by phone; 02:48:30), “Urge for Going” (03:02:30), “The Ballad of the Sandman” (03:21:30), “Nova Scotia” (03:34:00) & “The Princess and the Frog” ({live by phone} 03:38:00; Mike Agranoff). “Something There is About You” (03:49:00), “You’re a Big Girl Now” (03:53:00) & “Going Going Gone” (03:58:00; Bob Dylan).
The 52nd Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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52. Miles Davis was auditioning trombone players for his new quintet. He tells the first guy, “The piece we’re practicing is in E flat. But I want you to play it so it sounds even flatter, almost off key.”
So the musician starts playing from the sheet music, but Davis stops him and says, “I’m sorry, but you’re too good. You keep going back on pitch; you gotta go under. Sorry.”
Davis calls in the next auditioner and gives her the same shpiel: “Remember, the band is in E flat, but you’re sliding beneath it. Begin.” The musician starts playing, but sure enough, she, too, can’t help but ease back in key with the rest of the band.
Finally, the last auditioner comes in–a young guy with a fuzzy afro. Davis gives him the rules, and the dude starts playing. After a half minute, Davis starts nodding and smiling: “That’s it! Now make it even more flat.”
The musician complies, and he’s doing great, only he notices that hair is piling up around his feet. In fact, the more he plays, the more his hair keeps falling out.
“Don’t stop,” says Davis. “And play even flatter!”
The musician obeys, and he does even better, but by the end of the song, he’s bald as an egg.
“Why didn’t you warn me?” he screams. “I didn’t know playing off key would make me bald!”
“Really?” says Davis. “Haven’t you heard the expression, `Flatter E Will Get You No Hair’?”
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Here is the 537th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Dec. 19, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Word of the Year); Saturday Segue (Phil Ochs, Frank Zappa); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (in the News); Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Berli’os, underground newspapers) 00:24:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:56:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (piglette, snowstorm) 01:06:30 Sponsors 01:10:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN (Marriott, The Producers) 01:28:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (Phil Ochs) 01:51:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:10:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in the news) 02:36:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #133 (Word of the Year) 02:47:00 Friends 02:54:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (Frank Zappa) 03:14:30 Weather & Thanks 03:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 20, 2015 Playlist: “Chanukah Fever” (00:50:30; Mama Doni). “Ballad of William Worthy” (01:36:30), “How Long” (01:39:00), “Half a Century High” (01:42:00) & “Jim Dean of Indiana” (01:45:00; Phil Ochs). “Wedding Dance” (02:08:00; Fiddler on the Roof 1964 Broadway cast). “You’re a Big Girl Now” ({acoustic} 02:12:30) & “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” (02:21:30; Bob Dylan). “Man in the Long Black Coat” (02:17:00; Joan Osborne). “Love of My Life” (02:57:00), “Charlie’s Enormous Mouth” (03:01:00), “Inca Roads” (03:05:00) & “Any Way the Wind Blows” (03:08:30; Frank Zappa). “What Will Rumi Do?” (02:59:00; Ensemble Modern). “Holiday” (03:21:00; American Idiot 2010 Broadway cast).
Topics include: music, New Year’s Eve. Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2015 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 535th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 5, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Michael Colby; Inside Broadway; Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (massacre); Saturday Segues (Tom Waits, Stone Temple Pilots); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: author Michael Colby (“The Algonquin Kid”), Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (jazz hands, the Algonquin, throat singers, “Nebraska”) 00:26:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:04:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom Waits 01:26:30 Sponsors 01:30:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:00:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Michael Colby 02:51:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (massacres) 03:12:30 Sponsors & Friends 03:22:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Stone Temple Pilots 03:34:30 Weather 03:37:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 5, 2015 Playlist: “Shiver Me Timbers” ({early years version} 01:06:00), “Metropolitan Glide” ({live} 01:10:00), “The House Where Nobody Lives” (01:13:00) & “Woe” (01:20:30; Tom Waits). “Better Off Without a Wife” (01:17:00; Pete Shelley). “China Doll” (01:57:00; Suzanne Vega). “I Can Sing” (02:01:00; Klea Blackhurst, Christine Pedi). “It Could Only Happen in the Theater” (02:19:00; Polly Pen, Merle Louise, Michael McCormick, Timothy Landfield). “In My Dreams” (02:33:30; Julie Wilson). “A Different Holiday Song” (02:46:30; Amy London, David Gurland, Susan Hale). “Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre” (02:54:00), “The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar” (03:00:00) & “It’s All Good” (03:04:00; Bob Dylan). “Vasoline” (03:23:00), “Interstate Love Song” (03:26:00) & “Big Empty” (03:29:00; Stone Temple Pilots). “Chanukah” (03:41:00; Six13).
