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Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger Annual Thanksgiving Concert -------- a whole bunch of Alice's Restaurant videos

By Andrew Frisicano

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Folk singer Arlo Guthrie has been associated with Thanksgiving since recording “Alice’s Restaurant” in 1967. The song, which starts in an old church owned by his friends Alice and Ray and ends in New York’s now-demolished US Army Building on Whitehall St, humorously details how a Thanksgiving Day-littering charge helped Guthrie avoid the draft. The church in question is now the Guthrie Center, a non-denominational faith center, out of which Guthrie runs his Rising Son Record label. Guthrie continues to apply his satirical wit to current issues, like this live update of Tom Paxton’s “I’m Changing My Name to Chrysler Fannie Mae.”

This Saturday, Nov 29, Guthrie carries on his annual Thanksgiving tradition, playing with legend Pete Seeger (who toured with Guthrie’s father as part of the Almanac Singers in the early ’40s), family and friends at Carnegie Hall’s 2,804-seat Stern Auditorium at 8 PM. Tickets are almost gone: from Carnegie Hall, “Currently this event has limited availability. Please call CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 for ticketing information.”

Watch & listen to various versions of “Alice’s Restaurant” in the videos below (possibly while enjoying some delicious Tofurky)…

Alice’s Restaurant (TrAiLer) – 1969

The song (part 1)

The song (part 2)

Alice’s Restaurant (Reprise) @ Farm Aid 1987

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in 2007