Dave’s Gone By #657 (6/30/2018): KICK OUT THE YAMS

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Here is the 657th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, June 30, 2018. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Performance artist Karen Finley, Dave’s wife Joyce.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Karen Finley. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segue (in the news), StoryTime (A Cow for Hansel), Dave’s Big Dictionary (prance), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Basalt).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (NEA Four, totaled, no pulse, rainy benefit)
00:38:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:04:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (sir kensington, a too-quiet passion, bananagrams)
01:21:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:41:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Karen Finley
02:37:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED – Basalt
02:40:00 STORYTIME – A Cow for Hansel, pt. 15
02:55:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:03:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:39:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY – prance
03:49:00 DAVE GOES OUT

June 30, 2018 Playlist: (01:36:30 Grand Hotel 1992 Broadway cast w/ Liliane Montevecchi). “It’s My Body” (01:38:30) & “Tales of Taboo” (02:31:30; Karen Finley). “Shotgun” (03:05:00; Junior Walker & the All Stars). “Heather Heather” (03:12:00; The Magnetic Fields). “Please Mr. Kennedy” (03:19:00; “Inside Llewyn Davis” 2013 soundtrack). “Cortez the Killer” (03:31:00; Neil Young). “4th of July” (03:54:30; The Beach Boys).


(Pictured: Karen Finley, Basalt, prance, A Cow for Hansel, you win this round, Sir K,  but the battle has just begin!) 
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/30/2018): KAREN FINLEY & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with performance artist Karen Finley

Topics include: performance art, theater, politics, #MeToo, Grabbing Pussy.
Segment airs June 30, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
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Dave’s Gone By #601 (4/8/2017): MERSCH MADNESS

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Here is the 601st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio, April 8, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guest: author Michael Merschel (Dallas Morning News), friend Wendy Highby, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer Michael Merschel (“Revenge of the Star Survivors”). Plus: Inside Broadway, A call from Frendy (Wendy Highby & Fred Cleaver), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Brandeis Skyline), Saturday Segue (In the News, Tom n’ Tim)

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (chicken suit, NEA/USC)
00:14:00 GUEST: Wendy Highby
00:35:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (Bette n’ Joan, Cheese Weasel Day, Gary Austin, Blind Date in Chennai)
01:06:00 Sponsors
01:08:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom n’ Tim
01:45:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:28:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Michael Merschel
03:19:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Brandeis Skyline)
03:40:00 Friends
03:50:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:34:00 Weather
04:36:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 8, 2017: “Caffeine” (00:28:00; Wendy Highby). “Be Prepared” (01:27:00), “She’s My Girl” (01:31:00) & “Oedipus Rex” (01:36:00; Tom Lehrer). “All That I Want is You” (01:28:30) & “She Left Me with the Herpes” (01:34:00; Tiny Tim). “Tommy Can You Hear Me” (02:26:00; The Who). “Nashville Skyline Rag” (03:23:30) & “Bob Dylan’s Dream” (03:26:30; Bob Dylan). “Lay Lady Lay” (03:32:00; Duran Duran). “St. Petersburg” (03:51:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “Nuclear War” (03:53:30; Sun Ra). “A Certain Chemical” (03:57:30; Soda). “Martin Scorsese Tribute” (04:02:30; Don Rickles). “Passover” (04:05:30; Make Me a Song 2008 off-Broadway cast). “Got the Farm Land Blues” (04:09:30; Carolina Tar Heels). “Exodus” (04:44:00; Bob Marley).






(pictured: Michael Merschel, Wendy Highby, Cheese Weasel Day, Tom Lehrer, Tiny Tim, Blind Date in Chennai) 

Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/8/2017): MICHAEL MERSCHEL and Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Michael Merschel
Topics include: Dallas Morning News, newspapers, Revenge of the Star Survivors.
Segment airs April 8, 2017 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
More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #308 (4/5/2009): KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

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Here is the 308th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, April 5, 2009. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest co-host: Jeff Goodman

Guests: actor Martin Vidnovic, filmmakers Rob Whitehair, Pam Voth.

Another plus-sized episode with Dave and guest co-host Jeff Goodman, this one featuring veteran actor Martin Vidnovic, and filmmakers Pam Voth (producer) and Rob Whitehair (director) of “The Little Red Truck” (documentary). Plus: Inside Broadway and more late-night exhaustion fun.

00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN
00:05:00 Sponsors
00:11:00 GUEST: Martin Vidnovic
00:40:30 GUESTS: filmmakers Pam Voth & Rob Whitehair
01:18:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:21:30), Dave Luvs the NEA (01:34:00), God of Carnage (01:42:00), Impressionism (01:49:00), Our Town (02:02:00), Krapp 39 (02:14:00))
02:20:30 JEFF GOES OFF on tax bills
02:31:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 5, 2009 Playlist: “Never Say No” (00:08:30; The Fantasticks 2006 off-Bway cast). “Children & Art” (Sunday in the Park with George).

Martin Vidnovic
Rob Whitehair & Pam Voth
The Little Red Truck
God of Carnage
Krapp 39
Joan Allen & Jeremy Irons in Impressionism