Dave Lefkowitz interviews his mom and dad, Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz
Topics include: birthdays. Segment aired Jan. 23, 2016 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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The 53rd Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Jan. 9, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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53. Tired of killing people for a living, the Angel of Death applies for work at a furniture store in New Jersey. The manager is skeptical, but he’s also short staffed, so he hires Death to sell couches and love seats.
Turns out, the Grim Reaper makes an excellent salesman. He exceeds all forecasts and even makes employee of the week three times in the first month. Unfortunately, every other day, the Angel of Death forgets himself and exterminates a customer.
Finally, the manager calls Death into his office and says, “You’re fired. You’re a good guy, but funeral expenses are destroying our profits.”
Death clears out his desk and leaves. But later that day, the CEO from corporate stops in and says, “Hey, where’s that new employee who’s been selling all those couches? I wanna meet him.”
“Too late,” says the manager. “I had to let him go. He was smothering too many customers with seat cushions.”
The CEO says, “Harvey, I’m surprised at you. You’re great with customer problems. Why not this?”
“Problems I can manage,” says Harvey. “But I just can’t deal with the Reaper-cushions.”
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Here is the 540th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 9, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Greeley Times, Saturday Segues (Passings, Jimmy Page), Inside Broadway, Wretched Pun of Destiny (Death), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (I Can’t Even) & more!
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (winter, El Chapo, Kermit, Dylan the Perfectionist, Dave the actor, KUNC, dancin’) 00:53:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:16:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (muppets) 01:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jimmy Page 01:39:00 Sponsors 01:47:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN (manatees) 01:58:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:34:00 Sponsors 02:38:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (I Can’t Even) 03:08:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #53 – Death 03:10:00 Friends 03:18:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Passings 03:42:30 Weather 03:45:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 9, 2016 Playlist: “The Wanton Song” (01:24:30) & “Ozone Baby” (01:33:00; Led Zeppelin). “Don’t You Dig This Kind of Beat” (01:28:30; Chris Ravel & The Ravers). “I’m Not Saying” (01:30:30; Nico). “Lullaby from Baby to Baby” (02:26:30) & “We are not Strangers” (03:51:30; Runaways 1979 Broadway cast). “She’s Your Lover Now (Take 6) (02:45:00), “Most of the Time” ({acoustic}; 02:50:00) & “Idiot Wind” (02:53:30; Bob Dylan). “To Love Somebody” (03:21:00; Bee Gees). “Arturo, The Maitre d'” (03:24:00; Pat Harrington). “Compromise” (03:27:00; Elizabeth Swados). “Outside Now” (03:28:30; Pierre Boulez). “Suicide is Painless” (03:32:30; Manic Street Preachers).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews Chicago theater critic Mary Shen Barnidge
Topics include: theater, New Year’s.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2015 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews his cousin, Debra O’Brien
Topics include: family, New Year’s Eve.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2015 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2015 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Radio personality Bob Cudmore calls in to the 2014 Dave’s Gone By New Year’s Special
Topics include: radio.
Segment, co-hosted by Joyce Weil, aired Dec. 31, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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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 BrowerDebra O’Brien
Brian Gari
Mary Shen BarnidgeJoyce, Dave, Fred Cleaver, Wendy HighbyChuck Turner
The 52nd Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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52. Miles Davis was auditioning trombone players for his new quintet. He tells the first guy, “The piece we’re practicing is in E flat. But I want you to play it so it sounds even flatter, almost off key.”
So the musician starts playing from the sheet music, but Davis stops him and says, “I’m sorry, but you’re too good. You keep going back on pitch; you gotta go under. Sorry.”
Davis calls in the next auditioner and gives her the same shpiel: “Remember, the band is in E flat, but you’re sliding beneath it. Begin.” The musician starts playing, but sure enough, she, too, can’t help but ease back in key with the rest of the band.
Finally, the last auditioner comes in–a young guy with a fuzzy afro. Davis gives him the rules, and the dude starts playing. After a half minute, Davis starts nodding and smiling: “That’s it! Now make it even more flat.”
The musician complies, and he’s doing great, only he notices that hair is piling up around his feet. In fact, the more he plays, the more his hair keeps falling out.
“Don’t stop,” says Davis. “And play even flatter!”
The musician obeys, and he does even better, but by the end of the song, he’s bald as an egg.
“Why didn’t you warn me?” he screams. “I didn’t know playing off key would make me bald!”
“Really?” says Davis. “Haven’t you heard the expression, `Flatter E Will Get You No Hair’?”
Dave Lefkowitz interviews friends Fred Cleaver, Wendy Highby, & Chuck Turner
Topics include: New Year’s, Little America.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Chuck TurnerJoyce, Dave, Fred Cleaver, Wendy Highby
