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Here is the 519th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, July 25, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress Kathryn Crosby. Plus: Inside Broadway, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (surgeon), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Newport `65), Saturday Segues (Juliana/Jagger, Ray Jessel), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, My Sick Mind (Cosby).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Cosby/Crosby) 00:20:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:53:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (curling!, Long Johns) 01:03:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Ray Jessel 01:24:00 Sponsors 01:32:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:55:30 Friends 02:05:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Kathryn Crosby 02:54:00 Weather 02:58:00 MY SICK MIND – Cosby 03:02:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Newport `65) 03:25:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #46 (surgeon) 03:27:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (Juliana/Jagger) 03:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT
July 25, 2015 Playlist: “Walking the Cow” (00:42:00; Daniel Johnston). “Cold Clear World” (01:06:30; Baker Street 1965 Broadway cast). “Whatever Happened to Melody” (01:09:00) & “The Things You Do” (01:16:00; Ray Jessel). “I’m Outta Here” (01:13:00; Maude Maggart & Ray Jessel). “Edelweiss” (01:52:00; The Sound of Music 1959 Broadway cast w/ Theodore Bikel). “(Opening) Our State Fair” (State Fair 1996 Broadway cast w/ John Davidson & Kathryn Crosby). “Dream” (02:20:30; Bing Crosby & Kathryn Crosby). “The Second Time Around” (02:33:30; Kathryn Crosby). “I’ll be Seeing You” “It’s Easy to Remember” (02:49:30) & “I’ll Be Seeing You” (03:46:00; Bing Crosby). “Maggie’s Farm” ({live Newport version}, 03:09:00), “It’s Takes a Man to Laugh, It takes a Train to Cry” ({alternate version}, 03:14:00) & “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” ({live, Rolling Thunder version} 03:18:00). “Not Fade Away” (03:30:30), “Faith in our Friends” (03:32:00) & “Dying Proof” (03:38:30; Juliana Hatfield). “Running Out of Luck” (03:25:30; Mick Jagger).
Here is the 430th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, July 20, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Saturday Segues (radiation, Mick Jagger), Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later, Dave Goes Off (Seeing is Believing), the News Gone By, Dave’s “Trayvon” song. (Lost Recording: a chat with Dave’s wife, Joyce).
Note: Technical problems resulted in the first two hours of the original broadcast going unrecorded. As such, the interview with Dave’s wife is lost. However, Dave re-recorded the other segments – including Inside Broadway and the News Gone By – later that day to recreate the first part of the show. From the Bob Dylan segment on, the recording is from the original broadcast.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:07:00 Sponsors 00:11:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Radiation 00:48:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:01:30 NEWS GONE BY (including Dave’s song, “Trayvon”) 01:14:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (AmericanaramA) 01:49:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Seeing is Believing? 02:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Mick Jagger 02:20:30 Weather, Friends & Thanks 02:27:00 DAVE GOES OUT
July 20, 2013 Playlist: “Love Radiates Around” (00:11:30; The Roches). “Power and Glory” (00:16:30) & “Sword of Damocles” (00:37:30; Lou Reed). “Passion Play (When all the Slaves are Free)” (00:21:00; Joni Mitchell). “Radiation” (00:26:00; Gavin DeGraw). “Radiation” (00:30:00; The Apples in Stereo). “Frank Sinatra” (00:33:30; CAKE). “Fade Away and Radiate” (00:41:00; Blondie). “Promo for `Still Jewish After All These Years'” (00:58:30; Avi Hoffman). “Trayvon” (01:04:30; Dave Lefkowitz). “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (01:16:30), “Duquesne Whistle” (01:24:00), “All Along the Watchtower” (01:33:00), “Early Roman Kings” (01:35:30) & “Blind Willie McTell” (01:41:00; Bob Dylan). “Simple Twist of Fate” (01:29:30; Jeff Tweedy). “Street Fighting Man” (02:03:30), “All Sold Out” (02:06:30), “Tumbling Dice” (02:08:30), “Play with Fire” (02:12:30), “19th Nervous Breakdown” (02:14:30) & “The Last Time” (02:28:00; The Rolling Stones).
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #55 (2/3/2013): Oldies but Goodies
Aired February 2nd, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rWYhZ0sCBo
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of February 3rd, 2013.
We are such a disposable society, any story – from a terrible flood to a bear lumbering into a shopping center – any event is good for two news cycles, and then it’s on to the next. We had a fiscal cliff – “Oy, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal cliff!” Until some lunatic shot up a dayschool. Then it was “gun control, gun control, gun control!” Until next week, when it’s – Oh, I dunno, Chris Brown beating Rihanna again.
And the old 15 minutes of fame is now four minutes. Unless it’s an embarrassing or criminal kind of fame, in which case you get a show on VH-1 and live in perpetuity on Vimeo.
Our cultural motto is “What have you done for me lately?” And if lately is more than six months ago, we don’t even stay for the answer. So it’s heartening to find to find one trend bucking the trend. (And if you’ve ever had your trend bucked, you know just how pleasurable that can be.) The trend is for dinosaurs to roam the earth again. And by dinosaurs, I mean the great rock-and-roll stars of the `60’s.
When the entertainment community sought a charitable response to Hurricane Sandy, whom did they turn to? This week’s flavor of the month? No. Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, The Who. People whose combined ages would make Methuselah go, “Damn, they’re getting up there.”
At the benefit, Sir Paul rocked out with the members of Nirvana who weren’t driven to suicide by their wives. The Rolling Stones played two songs – which doesn’t sound like a lot, but in concert, that’d be 85 dollars worth right there. And then you had The Who – who reminded us how lucky Horton was to hear them. Yes, Roger Daltrey’s bare chest looked like the underside of a roasted ham, but the rest of him rocked out. And nobody does a windmill like Pete Townshend. Well, maybe the Dutch.
Anyhoo, around the same time, all the members of Led Zeppelin who didn’t drink 40 consecutive shots of Absolut were making the talk-show circuit with a DVD. Neil Young was putting out new music with Crazy Horse, David Bowie was finishing up a new album, and Paul Simon’s planning an Australian tour.
And yet there are grumblers who say that these people are all past their prime and should have retired long ago. Their voices are shot, all their best songs are three decades old, and fans are paying big bucks for diminished returns. In many cases this is true. If you go see Bob Dylan on his never-ending tour, you’re not getting 1966 electric Dylan and the Band; you’re getting 2013 eccentric Dylan and the bland. But that’s not just a function of age. Bob Dylan’s been giving shitty concerts since 1978. And 20, 30 years ago, a bad night could be infuriating. But now?
Is it enough to just see Zimmerman stand there onstage, mumble through a dozen classics and then give everyone hearing damage from his overmiked harmonica? You’re damn right it’s enough, because he’s still here, and we’re lucky to have him. Same with all these groups. If the Rolling Stones can’t make another “Goat’s Head Soup” – because they don’t have enough teeth to chew goat meat anymore; if David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust rises and falls – and can’t get up; if Leonard Cohen sings “Hallelujah” because he made it to the toilet before soiling his Huggies; if Paul McCartney sings “Help!” less often than he presses his Life Alert for help, if Neil Young has a heart of gold – and a hip of titanium; it’s still nice when they make albums. It’s what they do.
Retirement comes hard to artists, especially if they don’t want to become an oldies act, or even if they do. I guess patient zero in this case history is Frank Sinatra. By his final concerts, he was forgetting lyrics, repeating songs, stumbling over the fine line between indulgence and embarrassment. But ask anybody who went if they’d have missed a second of it. If they wouldn’t gladly sit through 90 minutes of, “Well, that’s what he’s like now” to be reminded for just five, “ahh, that’s what he was like then.”
So hail to the dinosaurs who walk among us. If their joints creak a little when they stomp, well, so do mine. And if they wanna make a little more noise before they go extinct, that’s not a shame, it’s a gift. With all due respect to Neil Young, the great ones don’t have to burn out or fade away. Just play.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Here is the 385th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 12, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with musician Chuck Leavell. Plus: Inside Broadway (Impresario), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (awards), Saturday Segue (bank ruptures) and Rabbi Sol Solomon (arresting the molesting).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: musician Chuck Leavell
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Bank Incident 00:22:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – bank ruptures 00:45:00 Sponsors 00:57:00 GUEST: Chuck Leavell 01:55:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (awards) 02:27:00 Friends 02:31:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION – Arresting the Molesting 02:41:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & Impresario (02:51:00)) 02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
May 12, 2012 Playlist: “The Hold-Up” (00:22:00; David Bromberg). “Raised on Robbery” (00:25:00; Joni Mitchell). “Stealin” (00:28:30; Memphis Jug Band). “Bankrupt Blues” (00:31:30; Dr. Selavy’s Magic Theater, off-Broadway cast). “Heavenly Bank Account” (00:33:00; Frank Zappa). “Bank Vault in Heaven” (00:36:30; Richard Thompson). “Back to Zero” (00:53:00), “Out of Tears” (01:14:00) & “Shine a Light” ({live, Stripped version} 01:45:00; The Rolling Stones). “Changing of the Guards” (01:56:00), “Lenny Bruce” (02:03:00), “Covenant Woman” (02:07:00), “John Brown” {Witmark version} (02:13:00), “2 X 2” (02:17:30) & “To Be Alone with You” (02:21:00; Bob Dylan). “We’re Going In” (02:46:00; Silence! The Musical off-Broadway cast).
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews veteran musician Chuck Leavell.
Topics include: The Rolling Stones, keyboards, music.
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Here is the 307th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, March 22, 2009. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest co-host: Jeff Goodman
Guests: Bill German and #1 Fan Pam
Featuring: Dave and guest co-host Jeff Goodman talk with Rolling Stones biographer Bill German. Plus: Inside Broadway (33 Variations, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, Chicago in Thailand, Natasha Richardson), Dave’s trip to Canton, Ohio, Dave & Jeff playing games with callers. Listen to the bitter end for two very tired co-hosts!
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN – Jeff’s Thai Trip 00:06:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN 00:09:00 Sponsors 00:18:00 GUEST: Bill German 00:44:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Natasha Richardson (00:47:00), More News (00:54:00), Chicago in Thailand (01:10:00), 33 Variations (01:12:30), The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (01:23:00) 01:33:30 A Caller – DCJ from Queens 01:41:00 Long Distance 01:47:00 Late-Night Hosts 01:56:00 DAVE GOES AWAY – to Canton, OH 02:17:30 State Capitals 02:41:30 I’m Thinking of a Person… 02:57:00 More Games (with #1 Fan, Pam) 03:25:00 DAVE GOES OUT
March 22, 2009 Playlist: Sway” (00:14:30), “Look What the Cat Dragged In” (00:42:00) & “Moonlight Mile” (03:35:00; Rolling Stones). “33 Variations on a Theme by Diabelli” (01:30:30; Ludwig von Beethoven), “Ohio” (01:59:00; The Pretenders).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews Rolling Stones biographer Bill German
Topics include the Rolling Stones, fanzines.
This interview originally aired March 22, 2009 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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