Arlo Guthrie is perhaps most remembered for his classic rock song “Alice’s Restaurant.” During an interview, he said the Thanksgiving song was based on real life. He also revealed how Vietnam War ...
Mr. ARLO GUTHRIE: (Singing) You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant. DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Now it all started 40 years ago this Thanksgiving. (Soundbite from "Alice's Restaurant") Mr.
Thanksgiving arrives with must-haves: For some, that means family, football, a parade and turkey with all the trimmings. But for others, the fourth Thursday of November is not complete until they’ve ...
'Alice’s Restaurant' also was the title of his million-selling debut album and the basis of a movie and cookbook of the same name. By The Associated Press Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery ...
When I was growing up, every Thanksgiving there was a local TV channel that played the movie Alice’s Restaurant on a loop. That’s where it stayed until dinnertime and then resumed later that night. To ...
WASHINGTON, Mass. — After 57 years, they had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat. And this time, they did not have to take out the trash. Folk singing legend Arlo Guthrie had a sentimental ...
Alice Brock, who has died aged 83, was the owner of a restaurant immortalised by Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 mock-heroic ballad Alice’s Restaurant (or to give it its full title Alice’s Restaurant ...
Boston Globe / Boston Globe via Getty Images The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock suffered from health ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," has died at age 83. Her death, just a week ...