Click above to listen to the episode (audio only).
Here is the 359th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 20, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: Riders in the Sky, comedian Aaron Berg and broadcaster Joe Salzone.
Featuring: Dave chats with comedian Aaron Berg and with Too Slim, Ranger Doug and Joey the Cowpolka King of the western swing band, Riders in the Sky. Plus: A chat with broadcaster Joe Salzone, Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (downturn) and a brief Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later segment on schooldays.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – While We Were Out 00:42:30 GUESTS: Riders in the Sky (Ranger Doug, Too Slim & Joey the Cowpolka King) 01:31:30 GUEST: Aaron Berg 02:08:30 Sponsors 02:11:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the economic downturn 02:19:30 INSIDE BROADWAY – news 02:24:00 Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (schooldays) 02:31:30 GUEST: Joe Salzone 02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 20, 2011 Playlist: “Time is on My Side” (01:10:30; Rolling Stones); “When Summer’s Ended” (00:13:00) & “You’ll Never Get to Heaven” (00:20:30; Bill Morrissey); “Wake Up Alone” (00:17:00) & “You Know I’m No Good” (00:27:00; Amy Winehouse); “Pata Pata” (00:24:00; Miriam Makeba); “The Land Beyond the Sun” (00:39:00), “Saddle Up” (00:54:30), “Song of the Trail” (01:09:30), “There’s a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder” (01:25:30), “He Walks with the Wild and Lonely” (03:02:00; Riders in the Sky); “Carry That Weight” (01:30:00; The Beatles); “The Untitled (aka The Hardy Boys at the Y)” (02:02:30; Loudon Wainwright III); “Subterranean Homesick Blues, Take 1” (02:24:00) & “Life is Hard” (02:27:00) (Bob Dylan).
Riders in the SkyAaron BergJoe SalzoneRabbi Sol Solomon
Topics include: comedy, Addicted to Show Business.
Segment originally aired July 2, 2011 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: Full Episode
All content (c)2011 TotalTheater Productions.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
Click above to listen to the episode (audio only).
Here is the 358th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, July 2, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: comedian Dave Konig, and Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian Dave Konig. Plus: a Saturday Segue of freedom songs, Inside Broadway (news & Nixon’s Nixon), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (July 4th), Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections on July 4th, and Dave & his wife Joyce reminisce about their trip to Italy.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Freedom 00:33:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Dave Konig 01:25:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (News & Nixon’s Nixon (01:38:30)) 01:47:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – more freedom songs 01:53:30 Sponsors 02:01:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: July 4th 02:37:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #20: July 4th 02:45:00 DAVE GOES AWAY – to Italy (aka Wakka-Wakka Boom-Boom Pigs), w/ guest Joyce 03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT
July 2, 2011 Playlist: (part one) “Absolutely Free” (00:08:30; Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention); “Freedom Now” (00:12:00; Tracy Chapman); “Free” (00:15:30; “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1996 Bway cast); “Set Me Free” (00:19:00; John Cale); “I’m So Free” (00:23:30; Lou Reed); Marriage (00:28:30) & Jewish (01:16:00; Dave Konig, youtube clips); (01:22:00; Follies 2004 Paper Mill Playhouse cast); “Free as a Bird” (01:47:30; The Beatles); “I’m Free” (01:51:00; The Rolling Stones); “Tears of Rage” (version 2) (02:02:30), “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” (02:05:00), “Tombstone Blues” (live) (02:09:00), “Lone Pilgrim” (02:13:30), “Angelina” (02:16:00), “Band of the Hand” (02:23:00) & “This Land is Your Land” (02:27:30; Bob Dylan); “Mambo Italiano” (02:43:30; Dean Martin); “Freedom” (live) (03:14:30; Richie Havens).
WVTL-FM’s Bob Cudmore interviews Dave Lefkowitz about Broadway
Topics include: Broadway, Tony Awards, Spider-Man.
Segment originally aired on WVTL FM (Amsterdam NY) June 21, 2011 as part of Bob Cudmore’s morning show, “Coffee with Cudmore” and was rebroadcast June 25th on Dave’s Gone By.
Please 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)2011 TotalTheater Productions. More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
Dave Lefkowitz interviews theatrical lighting designer Richard Pilbrow
Topics include: theater, lighting, producing.
Segment originally aired June 25, 2011 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: Full Episode
All content (c)2011 TotalTheater Productions.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
Click above to listen to the episode (audio only).
Here is the 357th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 25, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: lighting and theater designer Richard Pilbrow, radio host Bob Cudmore
Featuring: Dave chats with Broadway lighting wizard Richard Pilbrow. Plus: a Saturday Segue of light songs, Dave Says Bye to Peter Falk, Dave’s appearance with Bob Cudmore on WVTL’s “Coffee with Cudmore,” Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (light), Dave Says Bye to Clarence Clemons, and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the death of Jackass star Ryan Dunn.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Light 00:30:00 GUEST: Richard Pilbrow 01:20:30 INSIDE BROADWAY – News & Peter Falk (01:25:30) 01:39:30 DAVE on “Coffee with Cudmore” w/ Bob Cudmore (WVTL-AM 1570, taped 6/21/11) 01:54:00 Sponsors & Weather 01:59:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Light) 02:32:30 DAVE – Upcoming 02:39:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on “Jackass'” Ryan Dunn 02:55:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Clarence Clemons 02:58:00 More Sponsors & Friends 03:03:00 DAVE GOES OUT
June 25, 2011 Playlist: (part one) “In a Different Light” (00:09:00; Bangles); “In the Light” (00:12:00; Led Zeppelin); “It’s not the Spotlight” (00:19:30; Beth Orton); “Color and Light” (00:25:30; Sunday in the Park with George, 1984 Bway cast); “Arrows of Light” (00:55:30; Bruce Cockburn); “Shadows and Light” (01:16:00; Joni Mitchell). “When the Deal Goes Down (02:00:00), “Chimes of Freedom” (02:04:30), “Something’s Burning, Baby” (02:12:00), “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (02:16:30), “Every Grain of Sand” (02:20:30) & “Moonlight” (02:26:30; Bob Dylan); “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (02:45:00), “Pink Cadillac” (02:48:00), “Bobby Jean” (02:52:00) & “The Long Goodbye” (03:06:00; Bruce Springsteen).
Richard Pilbrow
Bob CudmorePeter FalkClarence ClemonsRyan DunnRabbi Sol Solomon
Click above to listen to the episode (audio only).
Here is the 356th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 18, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz
Featuring: Father’s Day episode featuring Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz, an Inside Broadway recap of the Tony Awards, plus a farewell to Wild Man Fischer, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later, and Dave’s thoughts on his trip to L’Aquila, Italy.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Summer 00:34:00 GUEST: Philip Lefkowitz 01:02:30 Sponsors 01:05:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – Tony thoughts 01:29:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Wild Man Fischer 02:09:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (dads & summer) 02:39:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Father’s Day 02:48:00 DAVE GOES AWAY – L’Aquila, Italy 02:58:30 Friends 03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
June 18, 2011 Playlist: (part one) “Summersong” (00:08:00; The Decemberists); “Summertime Blues” (00:11:00; T. Rex); “In the Summertime” (00:14:00; Mungo Jerry); “Indian Summer” (00:17:30; Lee Konitz); “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (00:20:00; Joni Mitchell); “All I Have to Do is Dream/A Summer Song” (00:23:00; Christine Lavin); “The Summer of My Wasted Youth” (00:26:00; Amy Rigby); “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer” (Nat King Cole; 00:29:00); “Sweet Little Papa” (00:59:00; Louis Armstrong); “Hello!” (01:27:30; The Book of Mormon, 2011 Bway cast); “My Name is Larry” (01:29:30), “Don’t Ever Get Mad at Me” (01:42:30), “I Light the Pilot” (01:43:30), “I’m Selling Peanuts for the Dodgers” (01:45:30), “Go to Rhino Records” (01:51:30), “The Wild Man Fischer Story” (02:02:00) & “Love, Love, Love in Everything You Do” (03:08:30; Wild Man Fischer); “Summer Days” (02:10:00), “In the Summertime” (02:15:00), “Ain’t Talkin'” (02:18:30), “Precious Memories” (02:27:30), “Sittin’ on Top of the World” (02:30:30) & “Father of Night” (02:35:00; Bob Dylan); “West of Rome” (02:44:00; Jeff Finlin).
On Father’s Day, Dave Lefkowitz interviews his dad, Philip Lefkowitz
Topics include: memories.
Segment originally aired June 18, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021.
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: Full Episode
All content (c)2011 TotalTheater Productions.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #17 (6/12/2011): 2011 Tony Awards
(aired June 11, 2011 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo3k7A1FHCQ)
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of June 12, 2011.
Despite my ceaseless grouchiness, there are some things in this world that I love. A good pastrami sandwich, for example. Watching reruns of Columbo. Getting a check in the mail from someplace I wasn’t expecting. Getting a check in the mail from someplace I was expecting. All these things give me joy. Well, unless the pastrami is too fatty. Or there’s too many commercials in the rerun. Or the check in the mail isn’t really a check, it just looks like a check but it’s actually a coupon where they fool you into thinking you’re getting money but actually, it’s just a fake discount where you’re giving them money – bastards!
But be that as it may, some things do make me happy. And I admit, I have a soft spot in my heart and in my brain for the theater. Plays, musicals, erotic circus performances – anything in which talented people are doing their best to entertain the rest of us.
I remember the first show I ever saw. It was Oh, Calcutta! I was 8 years old when I went in – and 27 when I came out. I recall being deeply moved by seeing a Death of a Salesman. Unfortunately, the salesman was my uncle Morty, and he died when he was hit by a bus on 23rd Street. And in 1975, my high school teacher asked if I wanted to see The Wiz. Then he took me to a urinal, and I don’t wanna talk about what happened next.
But still – the theater! Broadway! The Tony Awards, which are happening Sunday night, at New York’s Beacon Theater. Oh, I wish I were there! Look at the shows that are up for Tony Awards this year. For best play, there’s Jerusalem. It has nothing to do with Jews, or Israel, or, from what I’ve heard, anything relevant to anybody, but hey, the title!
Then there’s the revival of The Merchant of Venice, with Al Pacino playing Shylock the Jewish moneylender. This is a very difficult play to pull off, because it’s supposed to be a comedy. Meanwhile, the Jewish character, who just wants his money back, is mocked, humiliated, and forced to convert. Some hilarity. Too bad Shakespeare didn’t write Schindler’s List or we’d have had some real giggles. And really, Al Pacino as an observant Jew? They couldn’t get Steve Guttenberg? (sigh)
In the category of Best Actress in a Musical, we have Donna Murphy nominated for The People in the Picture. This is the story of the Yiddish theater in Poland, both before and during the Holocaust. I’ve heard Donna Murphy is wonderful, but really – “Murphy?” They couldn’t get a Yid for this part? A hundred zillion Jewish people on Broadway and they get someone who couldn’t tell corned beef and cabbage from kasha varnishkes and kneidlach?
And then there’s a play called “The Motherflinger with the Hat.” What kind of name is that for a play? Of course, I’m bowdlerizing it for radio, but who can put this on a poster? “The Motherflinger with the Hat.” They can’t even advertise it. People are saying, “The Mother with the Hat,” “The Mother F-er with the Hat,” “The Hat Play,” “A Buncha Schvartzes Sitting Around Talking.” What, they couldn’t name the play something you could put in a newspaper?
I don’t mind dirty stuff in the play. Half the shows out there, every other word is “f” this, and you’re full of “s,” and why don’t you “s” my “c” in the YMCA? One time I saw a censored version of American Buffalo. It was twelve minutes long! I’m not against foul language; I use it myself sometimes. Most of the time. Nearly all the time, but still, how do you put a play on tour that you can’t promote? They’d have to run a brown paper bag over the marquee.
What I do like about this year’s Tony nominations is their multi-faith nature. You got Shylock and the Holocaust and the AIDS play – The Normal Heart – lotta angry Jewish people. You got pissed-off Muslims in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. There’s goofy nuns in Sister Act and sad Baptists in The Scottsboro Boys. Someone tries to kill the Pope in The House of Blue Leaves, and of course, there’s The Book of Mormon, which has people shtupping frogs, raping babies, getting colonoscopies – my kind of show!
It is said that if you make fun of one culture, you’re a bigot, but if you poop on all of them, you’re an enlightened liberal. Hypocritical as that may sound, it works for me. And if we’re all going to the theater laughing at each other’s stupidity, crying for each other’s losses, and hurrying to be first in the bathroom at intermission – that is the true spirit of globalism, of empathy, and of sharing the human condition.
I offer my best wishes to all the Tony Award nominees – you are all winners, even the losers. Except Billy Crudup, because he was terrible, and Arcadia’s boring, but the rest of you: take a bow.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. On with the show.
Dave Lefkowitz interviews Oscar-winning songwriter, Paul Williams
Topics include: theater, musicals, Phantom of the Paradise, The Odd Couple.
Segment originally aired June 11, 2011 as an after-show bonus on the 2011 Tony Award Special of 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: Full Episode
All content (c)2011 TotalTheater Productions.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
