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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/18/2025): DARREN DEVIVO & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with broadcaster DARREN DeVIVO

Topics include: WFUV, FM Radio NY Mets, 9/11

Segment airs Oct. 18, 2025 as part of episode #1004 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information about Rabbi Sol Solomon: shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #1004 (10/18/2025): JOIE DEVIVO

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Here is the 1004th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Oct. 18, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews broadcaster Darren DeVivo; StoryTime (“The Couch Potato”); Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Canfield); My Old Phlegm.

Guests: podcaster Darren DeVivo; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:05:00 MY OLD PHLEGM: Oldsmobile
00:09:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: college radio
00:23:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Darren DeVivo
01:07:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN: backwards bee, radio losses, Alfa-Betty Olsen, desktop cornhole, 1900
02:09:30 GREELEY TIMES
02:35:00 STORYTIME: “The Couch Potato” (by Jory John & Pete Oswald)
02:54:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:00:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Canfield, CO
03:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT: papa de sofá

Dave’s Gone By #777 (12/19/2020): WITH A Z

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Here is the 777th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning Dec. 19, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: actress Karen Ziemba, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Tony-winning actress Karen Ziemba; Karen, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, and David Sheward play the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz; Inside Broadway; Dave’s Big Dictionary (go-ahead); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Dolores); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (snowstorm, monster mural, Rita Houston)
00:48:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:01:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Karen Ziemba
01:48:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Dec. 19 trivia quiz w/ Karen Ziemba, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward)
03:03:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:27:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (go-ahead)
03:40:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:48:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Dolores)
03:50:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 19, 2020 Playlist: “When You Said You Love Me” (01:00:00) & “Two of Me” (01:47:00), & “Hot Honey Rag” (03:59:30; Karen Ziemba).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/7/2015): CHRISTINE LAVIN

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer-songwriter Christine Lavin

Topics include: radio, music, WFUV,

Segment aired March 7, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 500th Anniversary Special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By #384 (5/5/2012): BODY BY JAKE

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Here is the 384th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 5, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Jake Ehrenreich (A Jew Grows in Brooklyn). Plus: Inside Broadway (4000 Miles, A Streetcar Named Desire), Saturday Segues (frozen cows, Beastie Boys), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (France), and Dave Says Bye to New York radio legend Pete Fornatale.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: monologist Jake Ehrenreich

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:10:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Frozen Cows
00:17:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Jake Ehrenreich
00:48:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – The Beastie Boys
01:11:00 Weather
01:12:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:19:00); 4000 Miles (01:31:00) & A Streetcar Named Desire (01:35:00))
01:47:00 Sponsors
01:52:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (France)
02:27:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Pete Fornatale
02:45:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Fornatale Segue

May 5, 2012 Playlist: “Sour Milk-Cow Blues” (00:13:00; Elvis Costello). “Bob’s Birthday Song” (00:16:00; New Orleans Klezmer Allstars). “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” (00:48:00), “Sabotage” (00:52:00), “Girls” (01:00:00) & “Sure Shot” (01:02:00; The Beastie Boys). “The Moon” (01:28:00; Once 2012 Broadway cast). “Cinco de Mayo” (01:42:30; Liz Phair). “Isis” (01:53:30, {live 1975}), “Arthur McBride” (02:04:30), “Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag” (02:10:30), “Slow Train Coming” (02:14:00) & “Dark Eyes” (02:19:00; Bob Dylan). “Gotta Serve Somebody” (01:58:30; Shirley Caesar). “Goin’ Back” (02:45:30; The Byrds). “Song for the Asking” (02:49:00; Simon & Garfunkel). “Here Today” (02:50:30; The Beach Boys). “Pack Up Your Sorrows” (02:53:30; Judy Collins). “Follow” (03:06:30; Richie Havens).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/10/2011): PETE FORNATALE

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews veteran New York radio host Pete Fornatale

Topics include: FM radio, WFUV, Woodstock, Simon & Garfunkel.

Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Pete Fornatale, passed away April 26, 2012.

Segment originally aired Dec. 10, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #370 (12/10/2011): RADIO RADIO

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Here is the 370th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Dec. 10, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: broadcasters Pete Fornatale & David Kenney

Featuring: Dave chats with radio veterans David Kenney (WBAI’s “Everything Old is New Again”) and Pete Fornatale (WFUV’s “Mixed Bag”); Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the post office; Bob Dylan: Sooner & Later (Woodstock); Saturday Segue (Hubert Sumlin tribute); Inside Broadway (news).

Note: Pete Fornatale passed April 26, 2012.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:17:30 Guest: Pete Fornatale
01:05:00 INSIDE BROADWAY: News
01:26:30 Guest: David Kenney
02:03:00 Sponsors & Upcoming Guests
02:12:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Woodstock)
02:43:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #32: the post office
02:49:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Hubert Sumlin tribute
03:01:30 Friends, Thanks & Weather
03:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 10, 2011 Playlist: “America” (00:13:30) & “Bookends Theme” (00:40:00; Simon & Garfunkel). “Falling Slowly” (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova). “Songbird” (01:17:00; Eva Cassidy). “It Might as Well Be Spring” (01:19:30; Rosemary Clooney). “Everything Old is New Again” (01:23:30; Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz original Broadway cast). “Someone to Watch Over Me” (01:59:30; Frank Sinatra). “Hills of Mexico” (02:14:30), “Under Control” (02:17:30), “The Bells of Rhymney” (02:23:00), “Joshua Gone Barbados” (02:26:00), “I’m Not There (1956)” (02:29:00) & “This Wheel’s on Fire” (02:34:00; Bob Dylan). “Katie’s Been Gone” (02:20:30; The Band). “Smokestack Lightnin'” (02:49:00), “You’ll Be Mine” (02:58:30) & “Wang Dang Doodle” (03:13:30; Howlin’ Wolf). “Rockin’ Daddy” (02:52:00; Kenny Wayne Shepherd).