Tom Toce – Dave's Gone By

Dave’s Gone By Interview (9/20/2025): TOM TOCE

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with songwriter TOM TOCE

Topics include: playlists, music

Segment aired Sept. 20, 2025 as part of the special 1000th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #596 (3/4/2017): ON YOUR TOCE

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Here is the 596th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC radio, March 4, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: songwriter Tom Toce, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews songwriter Tom Toce. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Playboy, Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Potato News, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Joan Osborne), Saturday Segues (Gary Numan, In the News)

00:00:01 DAVE’S GONE BY w/ Joyce (sabbatical, no critics, Columbia)
00:36:00 POTATO NEWS
00:42:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (dead horses & mump titers, hpv)
00:50:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Gary Numan
01:32:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:00:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tom Toce
02:35:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Joan Osborne)
03:03:00 Friends
03:17:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #144 (Playboy)
03:24:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News)
03:52:00 Weather
03:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 4, 2017 Playlist: “Are `Friends’ Electric?” (01:13:30), “Complex” (01:19:00) & “Walking with Shadows” (01:22:00; Gary Numan). “Live for Loving You” (On Your Feet 2016 Broadway cast). “You Could Have Fooled Me” (01:58:00), “Our Fair City” (02:11:30), “Better than Rock `n’ Roll” (02:32:30) & “Welcome to Another Day” (03:57:00; Tom Toce). “I’ll Remember You” ({live}; 02:37:30) & “Quinn the Eskimo” ({take 1} 02:50:00; Bob Dylan). “Man in the Long Black Coat” (02:41:30; Joan Osborne). “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” (03:26:00; Paul Simon). “Moonlight Serenade” (03:29:00; Frank Sinatra). “Have You Ever Seen a Prettier Little Congress & Stability” (03:33:00; The Rothschilds 1970 Broadway cast). “World Tour Sessions” (03:36:30; Public Enemy).

(pictured: Tom Toce’s “Songwriter in the House,” Tom Toce, Potato News, Gary Numan, Playboy magazine)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/4/2017): TOM TOCE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews songwriter Tom Toce
Topics include: songwriting, Songwriter in the House, game shows.

Segment aired March 4, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/4/2014): TOM TOCE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews cabaret lyricist & Jeopardy champion Tom Toce

Topics include: Cabaret, Broadway, theater, Jeopardy, Andrea Marcovicci, Douglas J. Cohen.

Segment aired Jan. 4, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #452 (1/4/2014): TWINKLE TOCE

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Here is the 452nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 4, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with lyricist Tom Toce; Saturday Segues (Phil Everly, Stipe n’ Schlosser); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (firsts).

Guests: lyricist Tom Toce, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (age-appropriate, parasites)
00:43:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Phil Everly
00:54:00 Dave & Joyce (quiet times & drug mules)
01:11:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tom Toce
02:23:00 Sponsors & Weather
02:29:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (firsts)
02:53:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (Stipe & Schlosser)
03:20:00 Friends
03:24:00 Upcoming
03:27:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 4, 2014 Playlist: “Cathy’s Clown” (00:45:00), “Crying in the Rain” (00:47:00), “Bye Bye Love” (00:49:00) & “All I Have to Do is Dream” (00:51:00; The Everly Brothers). “The Sweetness in the Air” (01:08:30) & “Shalom Santa” (01:27:00; Carole J. Bufford). “The Boy From” (01:32:00; Side By Side By Sondheim 1976 UK cast w/ Millicent Martin). “The Night I Fell in Love with Paris” (01:56:00; Jane Monheit). “You Make Me Laugh” (02:19:00; Jennifer Sheehan). “Long Time Gone” (02:30:30), “The First Noel” (02:34:00), “The Water is Wide” (02:36:30), “Things Have Changed” (02:42:00). “Misery Loves Company” (02:54:00), “Kurt Cobain” (03:00:30), “I Wanna Be Madonna” (03:04:00) & “Have a Peanut Butter Sandwich” (03:09:00; Art Paul Schlosser). “Every Day is Yours to Win” (2:57:00), “Sitting Still” (03:01:00), “Supernatural Serious” (03:05:30) & “I am Superman” (03:28:30; R.E.M.).