Dave’s Gone By #432 (8/3/2013): DREAM & SKEEM

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Here is the 432nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio Aug. 3, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with radio host Jill Skeem. Also: Saturday Segues (schemes & hosts), Inside Broadway, The Weiner for Mayor Skit.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: radio host Jill Skeem, Dave’s wife Joyce.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:47:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Schemes
01:12:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jill Skeem
01:47:30 Weather
01:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:11:00 SKIT: Weiner for Mayor
02:14:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (another side knocked out)
02:49:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – hosts & hostesses
03:13:30 Friends & Thanks
03:22:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 3, 2013 Playlist: “A Princely Scheme” (00:47:30) & “Another Princely Scheme” (01:02:30); Peter Pan, 1997 cast w/ Paul Schoeffler). “Cold Cold Heart” (00:49:00; Dinah Washington). “This is the Moment” (00:52:00; Jekyll & Hyde 2012 cast w/ Constantine Maroulis). “Dark Moon” (00:55:30; Elvis Presley). “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” (00:58:00; Richard Thompson). “Both Sides Now” (01:03:30; Joni Mitchell). “Romeo Had Juliette” (02:08:00; Lou Reed). “Maybe Someday” (02:19:00), “Spanish Harlem Incident” (02:20:30), “Under Your Spell” (02:23:00), “Black Crow Blues” (02:27:00), “Precious Memories” (02:30:00), “To Ramona” (02:33:00) & “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (02:43:00; Bob Dylan). “Wilkommen” (02:53:00; Cabaret 1968 London cast w/ Barry Dennin). “Get a Load of This” (02:58:00; R. Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders). “The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O” (03:00:30; Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band). “Talk Show Host” (3:03:00; Radiohead). “The Hostess with the Mostes’ on the Ball” (03:07:30; Dinah Shore).

Anthony Weiner
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Hostess

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/27/2013): CAROLE DEMAS

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress-singer Carole Demas

Topics include: Allan Sherman, Broadway, The Fig Leaves are Falling.

Segment originally aired July 27, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/27/2013): MARK COHEN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews “Overweight Sensation” author Mark Cohen

Topics include: Allan Sherman, comedy, novelty songs

Segment aired July 27, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Mark Cohen

Dave’s Gone By #431 (7/27/2013): COHEN ON THE TELEPHONE

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Here is the 431st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, July 27, 2013. Info: Davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Mark Cohen (“Overweight Sensation: The Life & Comedy of Allan Sherman”). Also: Dave chats with actress-singer Carole Demas, Saturday Segue (parodies), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Self Portraiture), and Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (abortion in Texas).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: biographer Mark Cohen, actress Carole Demas

00:00:01 Pre-Show
00:05:00 DAVE GOES IN
00:21:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Parodies
00:53:30 Sponsors
01:01:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Mark Cohen
02:22:30 BOB DYLAN: Sooner & Later – Self Portraiture
02:25:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #073 – (Abortion in Texas)
03:00:30 GUEST: Carole Demas
03:32:30 Thanks, Weather & Friends
03:44:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – J.J. Cale
03:48:30 DAVE GOES OUT

July 27, 2013 Playlist: “Going Green” (00:22:30) & “I Wrecked My Heart with Spam and Crisco” (00:45:00; Capitol Steps). “How Much is That Pickle in the Window” (00:25:00) & “Come On a-My House” (00:33:30; Mickey Katz). “Trayvon” (00:27:30) & “The Rectum of Edmund Fitzgerald” (00:35:30; Dave). “King of Suede” (00:29:30; Weird Al Yankovic). “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye” (00:39:30; The Clancy Brothers). “My Dead Dog Rover” (00:43:00; Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank). “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” (00:58:30), “One Hippopotami” (01:04:30), “Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max” (01:18:30), “With a Little Bit of Lox” (01:27:00), “On the Streets Where We Live” (01:28:30), “Sarah Jackman” (01:37:00), “Harvey and Sheila” (01:41:00), “Crazy Downtown” (01:49:30), “76 Sol Cohens” (01:57:00), “Hail to Thee, Fat Person” (02:02:30), “Good Advice” (02:08:30) & “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” ({1964 version} (02:15:00). “Copper Kettle” (02:29:30), “Belle Isle” (02:33:00), “It Hurts Me Too” (02:35:30), “The Days of 49” (02:39:00), “Alberta #2” (02:44:00), “Living the Blues” (02:47:00; Bob Dylan). “Last Will and Testament” (03:49:00; Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale).

Mark Cohen
Dylan’s Self Portrait
J.J. Cale
Choose ovaries!

Dave’s Gone By #430 (7/20/2013): RADIATOR

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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).

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Mick Jagger
Boston aftermath

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/29/2013): JAY ROGERS & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comic actor Jay Rogers

Topics include: theater, cabaret, Howard Crabtree, When Pigs Fly.

Segment originally aired June 29, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Jay Rogers, passed Oct. 28, 2022. 

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Dave’s Gone By #429 (6/29/2013): JAYTALKING

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Here is the 429th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 29, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with comic actor Jay Rogers (When Pigs Fly). Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (mom’s birthday), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (momma), Rabbi Sol on taking his stage show to Greeley, CO.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: comic actor Jay Rogers

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:46:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:11:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jay Rogers
01:50:00 Sponsors & Weather
01:57:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Momma
02:24:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #72 – Shalom Dammit! in Greeley, CO
02:30:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Mom’s Birthday
02:56:30 Thanks & Friends
03:06:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Devil Dogs
03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 29, 2013 Playlist: “Mama” (00:11:00; Electric Light Orchestra). “Mama” (00:18:00; The Sugarcubes). “Momma, Momma, Momma” (00:21:00; I Can Get it for You Wholesale (1962 Broadway cast w/ Elliott Gould). “Now I’m Your Mom” (00:24:00; David Byrne). “I Love My Mom” (00:28:30; The Roches). “Mother’s Day” (00:32:30; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010 Broadway cast w/ Sherie Renee Scott). “Mother Dear” (00:37:30; The Divine Comedy). “Rush” (01:09:00), “Cupid’s Arrow” (01:28:00) & “Laughing Matters” (01:37:00; When Pigs Fly off-Broadway cast w/ Jay Rogers). “Eat, Drink and Be Mary” (01:46:00; Jay Rogers). “Tell Me, Momma” (01:58:00), “Pretty Peggy-O” (02:02:30), “Ain’t Talkin’ ({alternate version} 02:06:00), “Call Letter Blues” (02:12:00) & “Highway 61 Revisited” (02:16:00; Bob Dylan). “Party Doll” (02:28:30; Buddy Knox). “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (02:35:00; Perry Como). “Earth Angel” (02:38:00; The Penguins). Chopin’s “Prelude in E Minor” (02:40:30; Carmen Dragon Hollywood Symphony Orchestra). “Borchi Nafshi” (02:45:00; Shlomo Carlebach). “Come On a My House” (02:47:30; Mickey Katz).

Jay Rogers
Bob Dylan and his mom
mom’s manna from heaven

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/22/2013): ALAN MENKEN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Broadway and film composer Alan Menken

Topics include: Little Shop of Horrors, Leap of Faith, Newsies, Howard Ashman.

Segment originally aired June 22, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #428 (6/22/2013): HONORABLE MENKEN

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Here is the 428th episode of the long-running radio show, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 22, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with award-winning composer Alan Menken. Plus: Rabbi Sol on Michael Karkoc, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Folk Years, Slim Whitman), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (folk years).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: composer Alan Menken, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:31:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – The Folk Years
00:58:30 Sponsors
01:06:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Alan Menken
02:05:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:33:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – folk years
03:00:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #71 – Michael Karkoc
03:20:30 Friends & Thanks
03:23:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 22, 2013 Playlist: “Walk Right In (00:31:30; The Rooftop Singers). “Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (00:34:00; The Kingston Trio). “Green Green” (00:37:00; The New Christy Minstrels). “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” (00:39:00; Mojo Men). “My Old Man (live)” (00:41:30; The Smothers Brothers). “The Whistling Gypsy” (00:44:30; The Clancy Brothers). “Red Rubber Ball” (00:48:30; The Cyrkle). “For Lovin’ Me” (00:50:30; Gordon Lightfoot). “There’s a Meetin’ Here Tonight” (00:53:30; The Limeliters). “I Can Show You a Thing or Two” (Weird Romance 1992 off-Bway cast). “The Broadway Alien Song” (01:13:00; 2013 “Neighbors” TV show episode). “Dentist!” (01:17:00; Little Shop of Horrors 1982 off-Broadway cast w/Franc Luz). “Under the Sea” (01:26:00; The Little Mermaid 2007 Broadway cast w/Tituss Burgess). “The World Will Know” (01:42:30; Newsies 2012 Broadway cast w/ Jeremy Jordan). “Beauty and the Beast” (02:00:00; “Beauty and the Beast” 1991 film soundtrack w/ Angela Lansbury). “Little Girls” (02:29:30; Annie 1977 Broadway cast w/ Dorothy Loudon). “All I Really Want to Do” (02:35:00; Cher). “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (02:38:30; Johnny Cash). “Love is Just a Four-Letter Word” (02:41:00; Joan Baez). “Boots of Spanish Leather” (02:45:00) & “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (02:51:30; Bob Dylan). “Mr. Tambourine Man” (02:49:30; The Byrds). “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (03:06:30), “Rose Marie” (03:15:00), “Rhinestone Cowboy” (03:17:00) & “It’s All in the Game” (03:25:00; Slim Whitman).

Alan Menken
Slim Whitman
Michael Karkoc
The Folk Years
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2013): JAMES SHAPIRO

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro

Topics include: Columbia University, William Shakespeare, King James I.

Segment originally aired June 15, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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