Dave’s Gone By Interview (2/11/2023): BEA FRANKLIN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with library BEA FRANKLIN

Topics include: aging, Judaism, Pep Boys, WWII, photography

Segment aired Feb. 11, 2023 as part of the 881st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #858 (7/16/2022): SO MUCH MOORE

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Here is the 858th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live, Saturday morning, July 16, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: photographer Jim R. Moore; theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, and actress Vicki Quade

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with photographer Jim R. Moore; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz w/ Vicki Quade & Leslie (Hoban) Blake; Inside Broadway; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Firestone).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (post-covid, minestrone)
00:43:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jim R. Moore
01:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood
01:25:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUIZ (July 16 w/ Vicki Quade & Leslie (Hoban) Blake)
02:38:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review Into the Woods) (02:52:00))
03:14:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:30:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Firestone, CO).
03:32:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jim R. Moore
Vicki Quade
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Into the Woods
Firestone, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/16/2022): JIM R. MOORE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with photographer JIM R. MOORE

Topics include: Don’t Miss This, photography, performance art

Segment airs July 16, 2022 as part of the 858th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #648 (4/21/2018): THE TAUNTED HOST

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Here is the 648th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook April 21, 2018. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Note: Technical problems at the radio station led to some dead air and gaps that have been removed for this audio archive.]
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: playwright Robert Patrick, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Peter Fitzgerald chats with playwright Robert Patrick (Judas). Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Storytime (A Cow for Hansel, pt. 7), Saturday Segue (in the news), Colorado Limericks of the Damned (Akron).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (blackout, poetry)
00:21:00 FAREWELLS (Gerald Nachman, Glenn Loney)
00:40:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (f’real)
00:48:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & reviews (Native Gardens 01:13:00 & The Electric Baby 01:25:30)
01:47:30 GUEST: Peter Fitzgerald interviews Robert Patrick
02:40:00 SONG: Chester’s Gay
02:45:00 STORYTIME (“A Cow for Hansel,” pt. 7)
02:59:00 Friends
03:09:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Akron)
03:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:31:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 21, 2018 Playlist: “Show Me” (01:42:00; My Fair Lady 1976 Broadway cast w/ Christine Andreas). “Certain Blondes” (02:33:30; Robert Patrick). “Chester’s Gay” (02:41:3 0; Dave)
“Crystal” (03:11:00; Husker Du). “Levels” (03:14:00) & “Wake Me Up” (03:37:00; Avicii). “Humble” (03:17:30; Kendrick Lamar). “Barbara” (03:20:00; Huey “Piano” Smith). “Bruno’s Place” (03:23:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “I’m Just Wild about Harry” (03:28:30; Shuffle Along 1952 Broadway cast).



(pictured: Robert Patrick, Gerald Nachman, Glenn Loney, Native Gardens at the Denver Center, The Electric Baby at the Arvada Center, A Cow for Hansel, Akron)

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Dave’s Gone By #543 (1/30/2016): CALLAWAY WE GO

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Here is the 543rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 30, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com. 

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musical diva Ann Hampton Callaway. Plus: Dave chats with theater historian Ken Bloom. Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Dylan – Sooner & Later (shadows), Saturday Segue (Lloyd Cole)

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: musician Ann Hampton Callaway, author Ken Bloom, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (bad link, psycho imprint, birthday day, Carvel, Meg’s hot dogs, gator ribs, tater gone) 
00:48:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:55:00 GUEST: Ken Bloom (remembering Ezio Petersen)
01:20:00 Sponsors
01:26:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:51:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ann Hampton Callaway
02:47:00 Sponsors
02:51:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner and Later (shadows)
03:08:00 Friends
03:18:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – AgFair
03:21:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (Lloyd Cole)
03:34:30 Weather
03:38:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 30, 2016 Playlist: “Carvel Commercial” (00:15:00). “I’ve Got Rhythm” (01:49:00; Abe Vigoda). “Bounce Me Brother (With a Solid Four)” (01:51:00), “The Nanny Named Fran” (02:19:00), “Ladies and Gentlemen, That’s Love” (02:25:30) & “My Buddy & Old Friend” (02:38:00; Ann Hampton Callaway). “It’s Today” (01:56:30; Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway). “Bounce Me Brother with a Solid F” (Swing Broadway cast w/ Ann Hampton Callaway). “I’ve Dreamed of You” (02:08:00; Barbra Streisand). “Where are You” (02:54:30), “I’m a Fool to Want You” (02:58:00) & “Stay with Me” (03:03:00; Bob Dylan). “Rhinestones” (03:22:30), “Afterthought” (03:24:30), “Down on Mission Street” (03:28:00) & “Mystic Lady” (03:30:30; Lloyd Cole). “We Can Be Together” (03:49:00; Jefferson Airplane).

Ann Hampton Callaway
Ken Bloom
Ezio Petersen
Lloyd Cole

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/30/2016): KEN BLOOM

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews theater expert Ken Bloom

Topics include: Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, prostates, Threepenny Opera.

Segment aired Jan. 30, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By #539 (12/31/2015): UNC RADIO NEW YEAR’S SPECIAL III – HELLO 2016!

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Here is the 539th episode–our annual New Year’s Eve special–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Dec. 31, 2015 on UNC Radio.

Featuring: Dave rings in the new year with wife Joyce, aunt Esther Brower, cousin Debra O’Brien, composer Brian Gari, theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge, and friends Wendy Highby, Fred Cleaver, Chuck Turner, plus: The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Miles Davis), Greeley Crimes and Old Times, Rabbi Sol Solomon on the old year.

Guests: composer Brian Gari, theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge (Windy City Times), aunt Esther Brower, cousin Debra O’Brien, friends Wendy Highby, Fred Cleaver, and Chuck Turner.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:03:00 GUEST: Esther Brower
00:10:00 GUEST: Debra O’Brien
15:30:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce
00:30:00 SEGUE – 16
00:42:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:34:00 Friends
01:47:00 SEGUE – End of the Year
02:00:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Miles Davis
02:05:30 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN
02:10:30 GUEST: Brian Gari
02:20:00 GUEST: Mary Shen Barnidge
03:07:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #134 – Farewell 2015
03:22:00 GUESTS: Wendy Highby & Fred Cleaver
03:29:30 GUESTS: Chuck Turner and Julie
03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 31, 2015 Playlist: “Sweet Little Sixteen” (00:31:30; The Beatles). “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” (00:34:00; Neil Sedaka). “Sixteen Candles” (00:36:30). “Auld Lang Syne” ({live radio version}, 01:02:00) & “Auld Lang Syne” (02:02:30; Guy Lombardo). “Stand By Me” (01:14:00; Ben E. King). “Louie Louie” (01:17:00; The Kingsmen). “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows” (01:20:00; Lesley Gore). “That’s How Strong My Love Is” (01:21:30; Percy Sledge). “Dandy” (01:23:30; The Rockin’ Vickers w/ Lemmy).
“Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne” (01:47:00; Richard Thompson). “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (01:51:30; Cocteau Twins). “Here is Where the Story Ends” (01:55:00; The Sundays). “16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six” (02:08:00; Tom Waits). “Sweet Sixteen” (02:57:30; B.B. King). “When You were Sweet Sixteen” (03:16:30; Al Jolson). “It was a Very Good Year” ({live at Meadowlands}; 03:47:00; Frank Sinatra).

Esther Brower
Debra O’Brien
Brian Gari
Mary Shen Barnidge
Joyce, Dave, Fred Cleaver, Wendy Highby
Chuck Turner
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #95 (3/9/2014): Upskirt

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #95 (3/9/2014): Upskirt

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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of March 9, 2014.

Say you’re sitting on a train, or, if you’re on my budget, a bus. You’re standing, holding onto a Pole – or an Armenian – and people are seated in front of you. Among them, a nubile young lady dressed in loose-fitting spring attire. I don’t care if you’re Charlie Sheen or Pope John XXIII, you’re gonna cast your eyes down that blouse in the hopes of seeing cleavage or boobage. If you’re a little pervier and you happen to be sitting in the row of seats parallel to the little chickie, you might even cast a glance when she crosses her legs, just to see if what she’s hiding down there is a peach or a porcupine. It’s sexist and disgusting, but it’s human nature. And human males being what they are, with technology being what it is, some guys get their jollies by surreptitiously whipping out a cell phone – thank God, that’s all they’re whipping out – and snapping photos of visible snappers.

Does this violate the privacy of women who are being unknowingly immortalized by T-Mobile? Of course, it does. And lawmakers in Massachusetts have put their feet down over what women can expect when they put their feet up. Any candid cameraman taking an upskirt or a down-blouse now faces two years in prison and a hefty fine – even heftier if the girl, God forbid, is underage. These rules were rushed into law following the state Supreme Court’s decision on a case that went the other way. A guy who was set up in a sting operation was caught taking snapshots – or snatchshots, but since this was in a public place, the Supreme Court couldn’t brand him as a Peeping Tom. He was more of a Clicking Harry or a Snapping Dick.

But now, with iPhones so prevalent and women wearing outfits that show enough to make men rise higher than a havdala candle, new rules are needed every day to secure privacy and safety for females. If that sounds a bissel nanny-state for conservatives, put the shoe on the other foot – or the panties on the other gonads, to be precise. Imagine you’re on the train in the summer, wearing shorts, and try as you might, your nutsack will just not stay in the crease. You push it in, it pops out; you cover it up, it slides over. Something about shorts in the summer; it turns your balls into a lava lamp. How would you like it if some creepy woman came up to you with her smartphone and went, “Say cheese!”? Horrible, even if, in summertime, you actually do smell like cheese down there.

These days, we all tolerate a certain level of big brothering to stop terrorism and help insurance companies figure out who caused the fender-bender. But we also should have a reasonable expectation that a public place won’t become a pubic Facebook. That someone won’t put our hooters on computers or turn our meats into tweets. I think Massachusetts lawmakers made the right decision, and when it comes to upskirt photography, we have to view the picture as a whole, and not beat around the bush.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/7/2008): ANDREA REESE

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Joined by Jeff Goodman, Dave interviews photographer and “Cirque Jacqueline” actress Andrea Reese

Topics include: off-Broadway, Jacqueline Onassis.

Segment originally aired Dec. 7, 2008 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/7/2007): GARY GLADSTONE

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews photographer Gary Gladstone

Topics include: photography, travel, funny places.

Segment originally aired Jan. 7, 2007 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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