Dave’s Gone By #141 (9/8/2005): THIS IS THE MOMENT

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Here is the 141st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 8, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com. 

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: theater composer Frank Wildhorn

Featuring: Dave chats with theater composer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel).

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN
00:05:00  GUEST: Frank Wildhorn
00:50:99  DAVE GOES OUT

Sept. 8, 2005 Playlist: “No One Knows Who I Am” (Jekyll & Hyde), “Storybook” (The Scarlet Pimpernel), “Freedom’s Child” (Hootie & the Blowfish).

Frank Wildhorn
Frank Wildhorn
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Dave’s Gone By #136 (7/21/2005): SPENCER FOR HIGHER

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Here is the 136th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, July 21, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: musical-theater composer David Spencer (“The Musical Theater Writer’s Survival Guide”)

Featuring: Dave chats with musical-theater composer David Spencer. Plus: Dave gets trivial about MSUD.

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00  GUEST: David Spencer
00:45:00  DAVE GETS TRIVIAL – MSUD
00:54:00  DAVE GOES OUT

July 21, 2005 Playlist: “You Can Always Find a Fable” & “Epilogue: He Could Always Find a Fable” (“The Fabulist”); “Friday at Four” (“A Class Act”).

David Spencer
MSUD
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/21/2005): DAVID SPENCER

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews musical-theater writer David Spencer

Topics include: theater, musicals.

Segment originally aired July 21, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #123 (4/14/2005): UNEASY AS 123

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Here is the 123rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio April 14, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Dave goes Inside Broadway, sings “Many Ways” and offers the satirical News Gone By.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN
00:10:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – “Piazza”
00:20:00  NEWS GONE BY
00:54:00  DAVE GOES OUT

April 14, 2005 Playlist: “Many Ways” (Dave), “Butterfly Mind” (Arcesia), “I’m Only Sleeping” (Beatles), “If Ever I Would Leave You” (Camelot). 

Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity
The Light in the Piazza
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/10/2005): ALAN ANDERSON

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews author and Irving Berlin expert Alan Anderson

Topics include: Irving Berlin, This is the Army, The Songwriter Goes to War

Segment originally aired March 10, 2005, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Alan Anderson, passed in 2017.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By #118 (3/10/2005): IN BERLIN, BY THE WAR

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Here is the 118th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, March 10, 2005. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: author Alan Anderson (“The Songwriter Goes to War”)

Featuring: Dave chats with Alan Anderson, author of the Irving Berlin bio, “The Songwriter Goes to War.” Plus: The World Weird Web on Kibo.

Note: Alan Anderson died in September 2007.

00:00:00  DAVE GOES IN
00:07:00  DAVE’S GOT GUESTS – Alan Anderson
00:41:00  WORLD WEIRD WEB – “Kibo”
00:54:00  DAVE GOES OUT

March 10, 2005 Playlist: “Overture” & “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” (“This is the Army”); “Love Love Love in Everything You Do.”

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/29/2004): IRIS DORBIAN

Dave Lefkowitz chats with theater journalist Iris Dorbian

Topics include: Avenue Q, Broadway, theater, Fiddler on the Roof

Segment originally aired April 29, 2004 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By #58 (12/29/2003): PRETTY GOOD YEAR

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Here is the 58th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on WGBB-AM radio Dec. 29, 2003. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave bids farewell to 2003 with reasons to be grateful and a chat with theater critic Charles Gross (TV’s Two on the Aisle).

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: theater critic Charles Gross

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN: Greetings w/ New Year’s Hoopla.
00:18:00  DAVE’S GOT GUESTS: Theater critic Charles Gross discusses Taboo, Wicked, Wonderful Town & Never Gonna Dance.
01:04:00  YEAR END: Dave gives bunches o’ reasons why 2003 was a “pretty good year.”
01:23:00  DAVE GOES OUT: Thank yous.
December 29, 2003 Playlist: “Pretty Good Year” (Tori Amos); “Popular” & “Defying Gravity”  (Wicked Broadway cast); “These Are Days” (10,000 Maniacs); “These Are The Days” (Van Morrison).

Dec. 29, 2004 Playlist: “Pretty Good Year” (Tori Amos), “Defying Gravity” (Wicked original cast), “These Are Days” (10,000 Maniacs).

Charles Gross
Taboo
Never Gonna Dance
Wicked
Donna Murphy and Jennifer Westfeldt in Wonderful Town
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Dave’s Gone By #29 (4/20/2003): SETTING A GOOD EGG SAMPLE

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Here is the 29th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, April 20, 2003. 

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Dave has a day in New York, plus gets cultural and offers the satirical News Gone By.
Note: The only extant recording of the first 10 minutes of this episode was taped from a radio broadcast. Apologies for the sound quality!

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN – Dave’s Day (A day in Manhattan, with cops, hot dogs, fireworks, plus a visit to Urban Cowboy, Bartenders and Zanna Don’t!)
00:24:00  NEWS GONE BY (State Farm Cameras, Della Reese, Lesbian Kiss; Atkins Die-t; The Colossal Colon; Stutter Students; Chicken Chopper; Knife in the Terrier; Paint Theft; Rodney King Drives Away; Liquid Wrench; Government Surfing; Mammary Molars (w/ Bad Pun of the Week); Big Lurch; What Would Jesus Eat?; Rod McKuen’s Place; Carl Lewis’ Seoul Power; Bitches’ Ashes).
00:43:00  DAVE’S GONE CULTURAL (Jesus Christ Superstar)
00:53:00  DAVE GOES OUT

April 20, 2003 Playlist: “Easter Parade” (Al Jolson, 19:00), “Could We Start Again, Please?” & “John Nineteen: Forty-One” (Jesus Christ Superstar), “In the Mood” (Ray Stevens).

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (2/2/03): DAVID SPENCER & STEPHEN WITKIN

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews musical-theater writers David Spencer & Stephen Witkin

Topics include: The Fabulist, musicals.

Segment originally aired Feb 2, 2003 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Stephen Witkin (L) and David Spencer