I didn’t hear it on the radio this year so I went to YouTube to watch my favorite version.
Which one is your favorite? Mine is Original Recipe.
It’s the one with hand-drawn illustrations along with the original audio. Alice’s Restaurant
Alice is still alive.
https://www.alicebrockstudio.com
Why don’t you go sit on the Group W bench over there.
I remember when the song came out. Back when radio was a real thing. We knew all the words, seemed to me.
We didn’t listen to it at Thanksgiving because I was a teenager and was not the generation that controlled what happened on holidays. I also saw the film when it came out although it was nothing like as memorable as the song.
Didn’t get to it til late, but I still can’t pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on.
That old link is dead, so here’s a very late update with a working link. It positions you to a comment on that video with some historical notes.
One important one is about “probably take orders from Chief Powhatan”: “This refers to the 1960 presidential election. Some people objected to JFK, a Catholic, who would be the first non-Protestant president. They claimed he might take orders from the Pope.”
Also, Freberg got an award from a national Native American organization for it.
My favorite lyric: “Let him share our Quaker oats / 'cause he’s useful when he votes”.
It almost came around on the guitar again
But it turns out you can’t get anything you want after all
I’ve never heard of Alice Brock not being there on Thanksgiving, so with tears in our eyes…
I came here to post this very thing, only to find myself beaten to it just as I was those many years ago when I started this thread and it was merged with another started minutes earlier.
That’s what I get for waiting until it comes back around on the guitar.
RIP Alice. In her honor I’ll be listening to the song a week early in addition to the usual Thanksgiving tradition.
Good night Alice. You will be remembered long from now.
You can (still) get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant…
Excepting Alice.
Remember Alice? This is a thread about Alice.
Let’s do it again-Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel…er, I mean station.
I’m waiting for it to come around again on the guitar. I’m not proud…or tired
Alice won’t be bailing me out his year, sad to say.
Not my kind of music. Just another thing to ignore when it comes on the radio.
Took you long enough to reply.
It is a rather long song.
They’re just dumping the trash off the side off the cliff on the side of the side road right now.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.