Dave Lefkowitz interviews “Inventing Late Night” author and Steve Allen expert Ben Alba

Topics include: Steve Allen, The Tonight Show, television.

Segment originally aired March 12, 2006, as part of the "Dave's Gone By" radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

January 19, 2013 (show #408) WAIN'S WORLD

Featuring: Dave chats with singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection Lance Armstrong's confession, Inside Broadway (The Other Place), and Bob Dylan - Sooner & Later (copyright).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III

January 12, 2013 (show #407) CIRCLE GETS THE SQUARE

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with entertainer Peter Marshall ("Hollywood Squares") and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Al Gore selling out to Al Jazeera. Plus: Inside Broadway (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Last Seder, My Name is Asher Lev), Bob Dylan - Sooner & Later, and Saturday Segues (birthdays, fingers).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: entertainer Peter Marshall

December 29, 2012 (show #406) WHAT'S UP DOCU?

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with filmmaker Michael Kantor ("Broadway: The American Musical"; "Make `em Laugh") and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the year gone by. Plus: Inside Broadway (Jack Klugman), Farewells to Roy Collins and Charles Durning, Bob Dylan - Sooner & Later (namechecks), and Saturday Segues (birthdays, last year's man).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: filmmaker Michael Kantor

December 1, 2012 (show #402) JOEY DIVISION

Featuring: Dave chats with Steel Magnolias author Robert Harling, and Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews radio legend Joey Reynolds. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan - Sooner and Later (in search of...), and the News Gone By.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: radio personality Joey Reynolds, playwright Robert Harling