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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2023): CHARLES GROSS

Dave Lefkowitz chats with theater critic CHARLES GROSS

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Topics include: New Year’s, theater, Spamalot, Broadway

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2023 as part of the annual Daverhood New Year special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #347 (3/19/2011): THE DR. IS IN

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Here is the 347th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 19, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: radio personality Dr. Demento.

Dave chats with radio legend Dr. Demento. Also: the Saturday Segue (novelties), Bob Dylan: Sooner & Later (funny ones), Inside Broadway (Spamalot in Greeley), Dave Says Bye to Joe Morello, and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Purim.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:17:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Novelties
00:30:00 GUEST: Dr. Demento
01:47:00 SATURDAY SEGUE, pt. 2 – More Novelties
01:57:30 DAVE – Sponsors
02:06:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Funny Ones
02:37:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (Spamalot)
02:54:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection: Purim jokes
03:00:30 DAVE SAYS BYE: Joe Morello
03:04:30 DAVE – Weather & Friends
03:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 19, 2011 Playlist: “Fish Heads” (00:17:00; Barnes & Barnes); “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” (00:19:30; Tom Lehrer); “One Hippopotami” (00:21:30; Allan Sherman); “I’m My Own Grampaw” (00:25:00; Homer & Jethro); “Cocktails for Two” (00:27:30; Spike Jones). “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha” (01:47:00; Napoleon XIV); “One More Minute” (01:49:30; Weird Al Yankovic); “My Name is Larry” (01:53:30; Wild Man Fischer); “Mixed Up Confusion” (02:07:00), “Baby, I’m in the for You” (02:09:30), “The Ugliest Girl in the World” (02:12:30), “I Shall Be Free No. 10” (02:16:00), “Man Gave Names to All the Animals” (02:20:30), “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat” (02:25:00), “All I Really Want to Do” (live, 02:29:00) & “Must Be Santa” (02:32:00; Bob Dylan). “You Can’t Succeed on Broadway” (02:38:00; Spamalot original 2005 Broadway cast), “Take Five” (Dave Brubeck Quartet; 02:59:00), “Knockers Up” (excerpt, 03:09:00; Rusty Warren); “Shaving Cream” (03:17:00; Paul Wynn/Benny Bell).

(Pictured: Dr. Demento)

Dave’s Gone By #85 (7/15/2004): POST NO BILLS

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Here is the 85th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM, July 15, 2004. More info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz

Featuring: Dave Goes Off on the New York Times and the death of the Frugal Gourmet. Plus: Inside Broadway, the satirical News Gone By, and Dave Remembers Joy Division’s Ian Curtis.

00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN: Dave to go on “Your World”
00:06:00 DAVE GOES OFF: The Times Square Billboard & the Death of the Frugal Gourmet.
00:23:00 INSIDE BROADWAY: Forever Tango, Spamalot, The Day Emily Married.
00:29:00 NEWS GONE BY: Senate Intelligence; Courtney Loveless; Family Fire Man; McJerk; Man Jailed For…; Microchip Mayor; Bull Run (w/ Bad Pun of the Week); Isabel Sanford; Chinese Graffiti; Posters on the Pantheon
00:49:00 DAVE GOES OUT: Birthday tribute to Joy Division’s Ian Curtis

July 15, 2004 Playlist: “I Don’t Remember” (Peter Gabriel), “In Old Mexico” (Tom Lehrer), “Love Will Tear Us Apart” & “Dead Souls” (Joy Division).