Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): ESTHER BROWER

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Dave’s aunt Esther Brower joins Dave for the 2017 New Year’s Eve special.

Topics include: 2017, family.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): PHILIP & BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Best wishes for the new year from Dave Lefkowitz’s mom and dad, Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz

Topics include: New Year’s Eve.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program (birthday special) hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021. 

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Dave’s Gone By #633 (12/23/2017): YULE TIED

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Here is the 633rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio and Facebook, Dec. 23, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Dec. 23, 2017 (show #633): YULE TIED

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Jerusalem. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Morose Xmas, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (harding-not Tonya), My Sick Mind (Amtrak).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (tio de nadal, New Year’s Eve, solstice)
00:31:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:08:30 Sponsors
01:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
01:44:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:06:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (harding)
02:25:30 MY SICK MIND (Amtrak)
02:30:30 Friends
02:39:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #151 (Jerusalem)
02:51:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (morose Christmas).
03:18:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 23, 2017 Playlist: “Crash” (01:12:30; The Primitives). “Boy with a Coin” (01:15:00; Iron & Wine). “Embraceable You / “I Got it Bad, and That ain’t Good” (01:19:30; Louis Prima & Keely Smith). “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)” (01:22:00; Stevie Wonder). “The Rum Tum Tugger” (02:01:30; Cats 1982 Broadway cast w/ Terrence Mann). “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” (02:11:00; Joan Baez). “Down Along the Cove” (02:14:30; Bob Dylan). “All Along the Watchtower” (02:17:00; Taj Mahal). “All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue” (02:52:30; Over the Rhine). “We Killed Santa Claus” (02:57:00) & “My Doggy’s Christmas Gift” (02:58:00; Dave). “Christmas in Prison” (03:01:30; John Prine). “I’ll Be Killing You This Christmas” (03:05:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “Oh Holy Night” (03:08:30; Steve Mauldin). “On a Holiday” (03:24:30; Brian Wilson).


(pictured: Amtrak arriving early, A Charlie Brown Morose Christmas, cover photo for Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding album, Tio de Nadal)
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/16/2017): DAVID CALE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor-playwright David Cale

Topics include: theater, monologues, Lilian, Harry Clarke, Threepenny Opera, Frank Langella, Present Laughter

Segment airs Dec. 16, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #632 (12/16/2017): HAIL CALE

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Here is the 632nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio and Facebook, Dec. 16, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com,

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: playwright David Cale, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright-actor David Cale. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (In the News, The Smithereens), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (winter).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (off-off-Broadway, curling, The Emoji Movie, potatoes)
00:28:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – The Smithereens
01:29:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:54:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon & David Cale
02:42:30 Sponsors
02:45:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (winter)
03:05:00 Friends
03:17:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:06:00 Weather
04:08:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 16, 2017 Playlist: “Beauty and Sadness” (01:12:30) “Strangers When We Meet” (01:15:30), “Behind the Wall of Sleep” (01:19:00) & “Baby Be Good” (04:11:00; The Smithereens). “Get Up and Go” (01:50:00; The Go-Gos). “Papa was a Rodeo” (02:35:30; David Cale & Syd Straw). “Kingsport Town” (02:47:00; Cat Power). “I Believe in You” (02:52:00; Judy Collins). “If not for You” {alternate version} (02:57:00; Bob Dylan). “Alabama” (03:17:30; Neil Young). “The Neutral” (03:21:30; Sonic Youth). “Bill Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) (03:26:00; Leon Redbone). “I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came” (03:29:00; Elvis Costello). “Smiley Faces” (03:33:00; Gnarls Barkley).

(pictured: David Cale, Pat DiNizio, The Emoji Movie, winter)
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Dave’s Gone By #631 (12/9/2017): MORE AND MOR

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Here is the 631st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Dec. 9, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com. 

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Brooke Moriber, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-actress Brooke Sunny Moriber. Plus: Inside Broadway, Potato News, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (brook), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Chanukah, In the News).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (w/ Joyce) (graduation n’ grading, seeing scallops)
00:24:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:56:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah
01:17:30 POTATO NEWS
01:23:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:50:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Brooke Moriber
02:33:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (brook)
02:51:30 Friends
03:06:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:47:00 Weather
03:48:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 9, 2017 Playlist: “Eight Days a Week” (00:58:00; The Beatles). “I Have a Little Dreidel” (01:00:30; Barenaked Ladies). “Hey, Hey Helen” (01:01:30; ABBA). “Anal Dreidel” (01:04:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Chanukah (Shake it Off)” (01:06:00; Six13). “Hero is My Middle Name” (01:43:30; SpongeBob SquarePants 2017 Broadway cast w/ Ethan Slater). “Up All Night” (01:47:00), “99 Days of Rain” (02:29:00) & “The Last Goodbye” (03:51:00; Brooke Moriber). “Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)” (02:34:30), “”Froggie Went a-Courtin'” (02:37:00) & “Mozambique” (02:43:00; Bob Dylan). “The New Jerusalem” (03:07:30; Luie Luie). “Russia” (03:11:00; Peter Cook & Dudley Moore). “Mrs. Robinson/The Sound of Silence” (03:13:00; Forbidden Broadway, vol. 3). “Christine Keeler” (03:15:30; Phil Ochs). “Hey Joe” (03:17:00; Johnny Hallyday). “Ventura” (03:20:00; Lucinda Williams).


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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/9/2017): BROOKE MORIBER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Brooke Moriber

Topics include: Les Miz, Mandy Patinkin, Cyndi Lauper, Threepenny Opera, Wallace Shawn, country music, Nashville, Judaism

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/2/2017): RICHARD NELSON & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright Richard Nelson

Topics include: playwriting, The Gabriels, Illyria, Public Theater, Rhinebeck, politics, Judaism.

Segment airs Dec. 2, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #630 (12/2/2017): NELCOME

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Here is the 630th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio and Facebook Dec. 2, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: playwright Richard Nelson, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Richard Nelson. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Thomas’s Ten), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Tom n’ Andy, In the News).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (noise machines, In & Out, Parade of Lights)
00:37:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:09:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom n’ Andy
01:37:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:10:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Richard Nelson
02:54:30 Sponsors
02:56:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Thomas’s Twenty)
03:21:00 Friends
03:28:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 2, 2017 Playlist: “Dear Heart” (01:13:00). “Music to Watch Girls By” (01:20:00) & “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” (01:27:30; Andy Williams). “Foreign Affairs” (01:16:00), “2:19” (01:22:30) & “Lullaby” (01:30:00). “Good for You” (02:08:00; Dear Evan Hansen 2017 Broadway cast). “One Night in Bangkok” (02:52:00; Murray Head). “Changing of the Guards” (03:00:30) & “When I Paint My Masterpiece” {demo version} (03:07:00; Bob Dylan). “Boots of Spanish Leather” (03:11:00; Nanci Griffith). “Sit Down, John” (03:29:30; 1776 1969 Broadway cast w/ William Daniels). “Mattie Rag” (03:31:30; Lord Tanamo). “Speaking of Taxes” (03:34:00; Henny Youngman). “Tishomingo Blues” (03:35:30; “A Prairie Home Companion” w/ Garrison Keillor). “Why Must I Plead” (03:37:00; Richard Thompson). “Walk to Jerusalem” (03:42:00; Mahalia Jackson).


(pictured: Richard Nelson, Andy Williams, Tom Waits, sound machine w/ Twaddle)

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Dave’s Gone By #629 (11/25/2017): HI FY

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Here is the 629th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on live UNC Radio and Facebook, Nov. 25, 2017. The interview and concert segments were pre-recorded and then played (audio only) on the live episode. For this archive video, the pre-recorded video footage has been inserted in that place.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Little Fyodor and Babushka, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musicians Little Fyodor and Babushka. Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segue (In the News).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (outsider music, thanksgiving meals)
00:21:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:55:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (01:13:30; The Portuguese Kid))
01:23:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Little Fyodor and Babushka
02:29:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (real thunder)
03:12:00 Friends
03:22:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:14:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 25, 2017 Playlist: “Tonight’s the Night” (01:22:00; Crazy for You 1992 Broadway cast). “You Give Me Hard-On” (01:23:00), “I Want an Ugly Girl” (01:54:00), “Small Talk” (01:55:30), “All My Clothes are Uncomfortable” (01:57:00), “Watching the Squirrels” (01:58:30), “Who Needs Me?” (02:02:30), “The Blackness” (02:04:30), “I Wanna Be the Buddha” (02:10:00), “This Diamond Ring” (02:12:00), “Get Out of My Head” (02:16:00), “Death Wish” (02:18:00), “Everything Ends” (02:20:30), “Trump Loves You” (02:21:00) & “Franksgiving” (03:02:00; Little Fyodor and Babushka). “Romance in Durango” {rolling thunder live version} (02:32:00), “Masters of War” {real live version} (02:37:00) & “Just Like a Woman” {rolling thunder live version} (02:44:00; Bob Dylan). “Little Pony” (03:24:30; Lambert, Hendricks & Ross). “Two Sleepy People” (03:27:00; Della Reese). “I Think I Love You” (03:31:00; The Partridge Family). “Shoplifters of the World Unite” (03:33:30; The Smiths). “I Got the Hoss” (03:36:30). “Crazy Egypt” (03:39:00; John Cale). “Eyes of a Dreamer” (03:43:00; Charles Manson). “Trampled Rose” (03:45:30; Carolina Chocolate Drops). “December’s Dream” (04:18:00; December’s Dream).
 

Photo: The Portuguese Kid, Photograph: © 2017 Richard Termine

(Photos: Rabbi Sol Solomon with Little Fyodor and Babushka; The Portuguese Kid)

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Little Fyodor and Babushka Radio Studio Concert

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