by Robert Wilkinson
Today we change the programming! I found a very funny short clip by the Smothers Brothers at their peak funny! Tommy mangles “the Halloween Story.” Then for our standard programming, we celebrate the Thanksgiving song embraced throughout America for many decades. The story involves someone being arrested on Thanksgiving day for littering....
First, the opening standup legendary brother comedy act, the Smothers Brothers! A very funny 5:48 piece from 1968.
"The Halloween Story by Tommy Smothers”
And now for our scheduled event!
For your enjoyment, a particularly funny audio-only version somewhat different from the original. In it Arlo Guthrie relates that he found out Nixon had a copy of the album in the White House, and notes that the original song was 18 minutes 20 seconds long, the same length as the gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes. For your enjoyment, a 22+ minute version of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." (as he originally stated, "with full orchestration and five part harmony...") And sing it with feelin', of course!
For a live performance, here's Arlo at the Guthrie Center in July 2005 performing "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."
For our encore, I found a very strange 25 minute variation of THE tune, complete with a tale of multi colored roaches weaponized by Russia and China. The Alice's Restaurant Multi-Colored Rainbow Roach Affair
Here's the original 1967 studio record, the entire 18+ minute masterpiece of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."
Thanks for the tale, Arlo. Glad you made it off the "Group W bench..."
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