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Dave’s Gone By #381 (4/7/12): NOT GILKY

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Here is the 381st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 7, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Saturday Segues (Slavery & Freedom), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (“Blood on the Tracks”), Dave Goes Off on “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Thomas Kinkade, and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Mezuzah madness.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Slavery
00:36:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:37:00), Night Music (00:50:00) & Priscilla (00:59:30).
01:07:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (“Blood on the Tracks”)
01:39:00 Sponsors
01:46:30 SATURDAY SEGUE: Freedom
02:23:30 Weather
02:28:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #40: Mezuzah Meshugah
02:36:00 DAVE GOES OFF (“To Kill a Mockingbird” (02:36:00) & Thomas Kinkade (02:45:30))
02:52:30 Friends
02:55:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 7, 2012 Playlist: “Slave Driver” (00:08:00; Bob Marley & The Wailers). “Passion Play” (00:10:30; Joni Mitchell). “I Would Be Your Slave” (00:16:00; David Bowie). “Slave” (00:21:00; The Rolling Stones). “Sunday’s Slave” (00:26:00; Nick Cave). “Let the Slave” (00:29:30; Van Morrison). “Some Other Time” (Stage Door Canteen, original off-Bway cast; 00:43:00). “Tangled Up in Blue” (live 1975; 01:10:00), “If You See Her, Say Hello” (Bootleg v. 3 version; 01:18:30), (01:22:00) & “Shelter from the Storm” (live “Hard Rain” version; 01:22:00), “Idiot Wind” (01:27:30) & “Buckets of Rain” (02:59:30; Bob Dylan). “Simple Twist of Fate” (01:15:00; Jeff Tweedy). “Free to Be” (01:46:30; Bruce Cockburn). “Free as a Bird” (01:49:00; The Beatles). “Ode to Freedom” (01:53:00; Fleet Walker). “I’ll Set You Free” (01:55:00; The Bangles). “Set You Free This Time” (01:59:30; The Byrds). “Roses at the End of Time” (02:04:00), “Paradise Hotel” (02:07:30), “Emerald Street” (02:11:30), “Midnight on Raton: (02:15:00) & “2153” (02:18:30; Eliza Gilkyson). (02:33:00).

Dave’s Gone By #380 (3/31/2012): THE BITTER BEGINNING

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Here is the 380th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 31, 2012. Info: Davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with film producer and Bitter End club founder Fred Weintraub, while Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress Elza Zagreda. Plus: Inside Broadway (Seminar n’ Salesman), Saturday Segues (April and Bitter) and Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (bitter).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: producer Fred Weintraub, actress Elza Zagreda

Note: Farewell to our Friend of the Daverhood, Fred Weintraub, who passed March 5, 2017 at age 88.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Powerball Mania
00:19:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: April
00:42:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:42:30), Death of a Salesman (00:55:30) & Seminar (01:02:30))
01:19:30 GUEST: Fred Weintraub
01:59:00 Sponsors
02:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE: Bitter
02:17:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Elza Zagreda
02:48:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bitter)
02:59:00 Thanks & Friends
03:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 31, 2012 Playlist: “April Fools” (00:19:30; Rufus Wainwright). “April” (00:24:30; PJ Harvey & John Parish). “April in Paris” (00:29:00; Thelonious Monk). “April, Come She Will” (00:32:30; Simon & Garfunkel). “One April Day” (00:34:30; Stephin Merritt). “April Fool’s Day Morn” (00:36:30; Loudon Wainwright III). “Come Rain or Come Shine” (00:50:30; Judy Garland). “Writers are a Funny Breed” (01:10:30; Jane Siberry). “So Early Early in the Spring” (01:16:00; Judy Collins). “Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound” (01:54:00; Tom Paxton). “Bitter Tears” (02:08:00; Magnetic Fields). “Bitter Branches” (PJ Harvey; 02:11:00). “Bitter” (02:13:00; Jill Sobule). “Elza Zagreda” (02:45:30; Youtube excerpt). “Ye Shall be Changed” (Bob Dylan; 02:48:00). “Every Grain of Sand” (03:08:00; Barb Jungr). “Heartland” (02:52:00; Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan).

Death of a Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/31/2012): ELZA ZAGREDA & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Elza Zagreda

Topics include: theater, Corn Bread and Feta Cheese, off-off-Broadway.

Segment originally aired March 31, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Note: Interview segments extracted from “Dave’s Gone By” may have music and other elements removed for timing and media re-posting considerations. For the full interview with all elements, please visit the audio of the complete original broadcast.

All content (c)2012 TotalTheater Productions.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/31/2012): FRED WEINTRAUB

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews film producer and Bitter End club owner Fred Weintraub

Topics include: Bruce Lee, The Bitter End, film.

Segment originally aired March 31, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Note: Fred Weintraub passed March 5, 2017.

All content (c)2012 TotalTheater Productions.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #39 (3/25/2012): Rave Review!

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #39 (3/25/2012): Rave Review!

Aired March 24, on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONO3DfOp1k&t=141s

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of March 25th, 2012.

Well, I am back in Colorado after doing my big, whopping, $1.98 off-off-off-off-off-off-Broadway show: Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Me, Rabbi Sol Solomon. We did five performances at the Richmond Shepard Theater, a playhouse so off the beaten path, the Bermuda Triangle goes there to vacation.

But somehow, people made it to the theater on East 26th Street. They came to see me talk about Jewish life, religion, the middle east, assimilation, the Holocaust and other hilarious topics for a night at the theater. My musical director, Richard Shore, and I, had a marvelous time rehearsing, playing, cutting, trimming, making the best show we possibly could for the least amount of money we could possibly get away with.

Well, my friends, there is no accounting for taste, which is why I am shocked but delighted to say that Shalom Dammit! the stage show received its first review – and it’s a rave! And not like one of those raves where teenagers lick yellow decals and then start shtupping the walls – no! Our show in New York got a review so good, I’d like to cover it with sour cream and eat it with a soup spoon.

It’s by Elizabeth Ahlfors, of CityCabaret.com, and it’s published on TotalTheater.com. Now: full disclosure – Dave Lefkowitz, the host of this show, also works for TotalTheater.com and he edits the writing of Elizabeth Ahlfors for publication. Their dealings are purely professional, so apart from some bribery money changing hands, her review is absolutely heartfelt and legitimate. Which is more than I can say for my show.

If you don’t believe me, read the full review of Shalom Dammit! at TotalTheater. In it she says things like – and I quote – “A comedy, a passionate sermon, a witty diatribe, a musical. It’s all of the above – in full-volume yelling.” Me? Yelling? She must have me confused with . . . every other middle-class Jewish man in the world.

Ms. Ahlfors also says about me that I’m “ebullient, angry (because why shouldn’t I be?), opinionated, outspoken, supremely self-confident and hilarious!” No one’s called me hilarious since that time I farted on the bimah during Yom Kippur. And let’s face it, that’s an easy gag for a captive audience.

She closes her big review with the best line of all: “Shalom Dammit!, with all its fervor and fury, is a good time.” That’s a money review, ladies and gentleman. And I paid good money for it.

So now we shall see the next step in the commercial path of Shalom Dammit!. We may come back in April and do a couple more shows. We may hit a fringe festival or two . . . because my tallis has award-winning fringes. Or who knows? We may play the occasional Jewish center, nursing home or women’s prison.

If you saw Shalom Dammit! in New York and you agree with this review, do your part! Tell family and friends and people you no longer want to be your friends that you can’t wait to see Shalom Dammit! in your bedraggled town or village. You must know people with money – you’re Jewish! Tell them a couple of hundred dollars they can be investors and gain the satisfaction of knowing they’ll never see that money again, but they’ll have helped spread yiddishkeit, love and possibly herpes to theatergoers all over America.

My thanks go out to Elizabeth Ahlfors, the brilliant, insightful critic; to Richard Shore, to Richmond Shepard, to Bill the stage manager and Jeff the box-office boychick, and to everyone who visited the Richmond Shepard Theater to partake in Shalom Dammit! the show.

Not to paraphrase Hitler but: today East 26th Street, tomorrow West 26th Street!

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches and off-off-Broadway hit!

Note: here is the review: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4470

Dave’s Gone By #379 (3/24/2012): SOLOMON’S MINE

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Here is the 379th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 24, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with UNC Radio general manager Sam Wood, and Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian Steve Solomon. Plus: Inside Broadway (news & reviews), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (first album), Saturday Segues (hunger and songs in my head), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on his rave review.

Guests: UNC Radio’s Sam Wood, comedian Steve Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:09:30 GUEST: Sam Wood
00:26:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Hunger
00:41:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Steve Solomon
01:06:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & reviews (Wit (01:16:30); Laurie Anderson’s Delusion (01:23:30), Once (01:34:00))
01:43:30 Sponsors & Weather
01:54:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on a Rave Review
02:00:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (first album)
02:24:30 More Sponsors
02:30:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In My Head
02:56:30 Friends
03:00:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 24, 2012 Playlist: “The City is Hungry” (00:26:30; Bruce Cockburn). “We are Hungry Men” (00:32:00; David Bowie). “I’m Hungry” (00:35:00; Sugarcubes). “The Wake-Up Call” (01:01:00; New Orleans Klezmer Allstars). “Falling Slowly” (01:02:00), “If You Want Me” (01:30:30) & “Gold” (03:01:30; Once 2012 Broadway cast w/ Cristin Milioti & Steve Kazee). “Here with You” (01:28:00; Laurie Anderson). “You’re No Good” (02:03:30), “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” (02:05:00), “Highway 51” (02:07:30), “Song to Woody” (02:10:30), “When I Got Troubles” (02:13:00), “In My Time of Dyin'” (02:14:30), “Talkin’ New York” (02:17:00) & “See That My Grave is Kept Clean” (02:20:30). “Spazz” (02:32:30; The Elastik Band). “Academia” (02:35:00; Sia). “Behind That Locked Door” (02:40:00; George Harrison). “Cactus Tree” (02:43:00; Judy Collins). “I Loves You Porgy” (02:48:00; Nina Simone, 1962).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/24/2012): STEVE SOLOMON & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Steve Solomon

Topics include: My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy.

Segment originally aired March 24, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Complete Original Broadcast: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4472

All content (c)2012 TotalTheater Productions.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/24/2012): SAM WOOD

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews University of Northern Colorado’s UNC Radio general manager Sam Wood

Topics include: student radio, University of Northern Colorado, UNC Radio.

Segment originally aired March 24, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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

Dave’s Gone By #378 (3/3/2012): REDD HEADS

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Here is the 378th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 3, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Dave chats with authors Eric Lefcowitz (“Monkee Business”) and Michael Seth Starr (“Black & Blue – The Redd Foxx Story”), and Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musical director Richard Shore. Plus: Inside Broadway (news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Mr. Jones), a Saturday Segue (the Monkees).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: authors Michael Seth Starr and Eric Lefcowitz, musician Richard Shore

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:15:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – the Monkees
00:29:30 GUEST: Michael Seth Starr
01:21:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #38: Shalom Dammit in NY
01:29:00 GUEST: Eric Lefcowitz
01:48:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Richard Shore
02:10:30 Sponsors
02:17:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Mr. Jones
02:43:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:54:30 Thanks & Friends
03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT

March 3, 2012 Playlist: “Daydream Believer” (00:18:00), “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” (00:21:00), “Cuddly Toy” (00:23:30), “Valleri” (00:26:00), “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” (01:25:00), “(Theme from) The Monkees” (01:45:30) & (“You and I”; 03:04:00; The Monkees) “Lucky Guy” (00:36:00) & “Live Excerpts” (01:16:00; Redd Foxx). “The Wake-Up Call” (01:47:30, New Orleans Klezmer Allstars). “Ay Ya Bibi” (02:06:30; Klezperanto). “Ballad of a Thin Man” (live, 02:17:00), “Million Dollar Bash – Version 1” (02:21:00), “I Shall Be Free No. 10” (02:23:30), “Angelina” (02:28:00), “On the Road Again” (2:35:00) & “Buckets of Rain” (02:37:30, Bob Dylan).