Listening right now… Happy Thanksgiving! RIP Alice.
We listened to it over breakfast. Later it occurred to me that the melody is somewhat similar to Weird Al’s “Mr Frump in the Iron Lung.”
The accordion riff in this song is similar in sound to the guitar riff of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” by Arlo Guthrie.
So I’m not crazy. Not on that topic, anyway.
Did not listen this year. My wife has never heard of it and we hosted so no driving with the radio on.
We watched a video on YouTube over breakfast. No driving required.
That was last year.
I know. I was just yanking your chain.
That was horrible; if you want to end war and stuff, you got to sing loud.
First in for 2025! I heard Alice’s Restaurant on Nash Bozard’s “What The Fuck Is Wrong With You” live podcast this evening. It was the 30th(?) anniversary version of the song, where he tells the tale of Jimmy Carter’s son taking him aside and telling him that Nixon had a copy of his album in his library, and that it had been found opened and used. Arlo said that the missing 18 and a half minutes on the Nixon tapes was pretty close to the length of “Alice’s Restaurant”. He said it was probably a coincidence, but it made him smile.
I will of course listen to the original version on Thanksgiving Day on 101.9 KINK radio.
I heard “the short version” last week, I think on Sirius’ Deep Tracks channel. It hit just some of the high points, and was as advertised, short. Husband said, “Well, that sucked.”
Arlo did a short version?
Not one I can find at the moment! It sure sounded like Arlo…
I’d heard of the song, but never heard it, until I married into Mrs. Homie’s family. The first time I joined them for Thanksgiving, Uncle Randy gathered the family around the sound system and played his CD (this was before the widespread ubiquity of the mp3). They did it pretty religiously for the better part of two decades, but of late the tradition has been a bit hit-and-miss.
I want that version! I truly do.
I think there is a link to it in this thread.
Here it is. Alice’s Restaurant (The Massacree Revisted)
Thank you!
Working tomorrow, so I gave it a listen today, also remembering the late Alice Brock who really fixed a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat. Also, a shout-out to officer Obie for his willingness to play himself in the movie knowing he be the butt of the joke, his subsequent friendship with Guthrie and his work with Norman Rockwell.