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Guthrie states that the song is titled "Alice's Restaurant" but clarifies that this is only the name of the song, not the business owned by his friend Alice Brock.He then sings the chorus, which is in the form of a jingle for the restaurant, beginning with "You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant" twice, and continuing with directions to it before restating the slogan once more.
Guthrie was born in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, the son of the folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. [1] He is the fifth, and oldest surviving, of Woody Guthrie's eight children; two older half-sisters died of Huntington's disease (of which Woody also died in 1967), an older half-brother died in a train accident, another half sister died in a ...
Woody Guthrie's son Arlo Guthrie also wrote one of the decade's most famous protest songs in the form of the 18-minute long-talking blues song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft.
CCCO staff trained hundreds of volunteer "draft counselors" throughout the United States to give informed and non-directive advice during the Vietnam era to as many as 10,000 young men exploring their choices in the face of the draft, including such well-known COs as Muhammad Ali and Arlo Guthrie. [10]
The most famous examples were Arlo Guthrie's classic folk song, 'Alice's Restaurant', and the book, '1001 Ways to Beat the Draft'." [2] The pamphlet was published originally by Oliver Layton Press, New York; Kupferberg also printed it under his publishing label, Birth Press, and an illustrated version from Grove Press came out in 1967. [3]
"Draft Dodger Rag" was the first prominent satirical song about draft evasion in the Vietnam War. [6] One writer says its humor can be appreciated on its own level, without respect to the political message of the song. [7] Another says it added "much-needed humour" to the protest song genre. [8] Ochs wrote of the song:
Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Arthur Penn.It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie.
The scout of the group who collects the feet of dead enemy soldier, he gets his nickname from "Alice's Restaurant", an album by Arlo Guthrie. He is described as being the same size as Animal Mother and is the first to fall into the NVA trap in the woods. Henry "New Guy" Parker; Donlon; The radioman of the squad.