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Alice’s Restaurant
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WBCN used to play it, but they've been gone for years. I assume WZLX or WROR don't play it anymore?
It’s a nearly 60 year old, 18 minute long song. Stations can fit 6 better testing 3 minute songs in the airtime it would take to play it.
It's a song that gets played once a year, on the Thanksgiving holiday, when people are prepping food, or watching football, or getting an early start on getting drunk. 18 minutes once a year. Somehow I doubt it's going to sink the broadcasting industry any faster than it's already sinking itself.
And besides, you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice, because she's now dead).
I think Alice's Restaurant is more about tradition. It's kind of a dumb song, but I enjoy hearing it on Thanksgiving. It's sort of like how I go out of my way to watch It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition, and I love it for that reason.
I don't think spinning Hit Me With Your Best Shot or In the Air Tonight an extra time on Thanksgiving day is really a make or break scenario for any radio station.
For years we would play it on WMWM Salem State, sometimes tied in to picking up broadcast of Salem-Beverly high school game. Recently we longtime weekend jocks were cut loose from there but we have a stream going called North of Boston Radio.
We played it on our What's Happening show and probably as well on Dawn on the Town.
We jocks are mostly in our 60s or older, at least 3 times the age of SSU students but carry on tradition of local music, pop culture interviews, folk-acoustic, psychedelic, doo wop, classic rock,
rhythm and blues and more.
In the early 90s Car Talk had a special Live From Greaseland with guest Arlo Guthrie, recorded at a Cambridge nightclub. Arlo's VW microbus seemed to have broken down so Tom and Ray asked him to go to their waiting room.
(Sound effect, door opens and closes)
Arlo: "Hey officer Obie, what're you doing here?"
--Bob Nelson '84
SSC/SSU
We played it on our What's Happening show and probably as well on Dawn on the Town.
We jocks are mostly in our 60s or older, at least 3 times the age of SSU students but carry on tradition of local music, pop culture interviews, folk-acoustic, psychedelic, doo wop, classic rock,
rhythm and blues and more.
In the early 90s Car Talk had a special Live From Greaseland with guest Arlo Guthrie, recorded at a Cambridge nightclub. Arlo's VW microbus seemed to have broken down so Tom and Ray asked him to go to their waiting room.
(Sound effect, door opens and closes)
Arlo: "Hey officer Obie, what're you doing here?"
--Bob Nelson '84
SSC/SSU
Just checking WZLX's Thursday playlist -- didn't see "Alice's Restaurant" anywhere (although songs get "missed" from time to time on the I-Heart Recently Played tab). At around 12 noon, the time a lot of stations play "Alice," ZLX appeared to be playing a double-shot of Aerosmith. ZLX did play Adam Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song" several times, however.
Neighboring Providence stations 94HJY and 106.3 The Wolf both played "Alice" at noon on Thanksgiving.
Neighboring Providence stations 94HJY and 106.3 The Wolf both played "Alice" at noon on Thanksgiving.
What, you're no longer with WMWM?!? 😲
When did that happen?
Re WMWM:
Uncle: Around Jan of this year, All of the weekend shows may now be heard on North Of Boston Radio and are archived.
We were doing shows remotely during pandemic but were told we couldn't do shows either remotely or in person. 91.7 has their
own student DJs but currently no longer streams (WE do).. (I set up a domain name for them, WMWM 91.7 Salem (wmwmsalem dot org) and they put up a bare bones site with no schedule).
We play what we want with no college interference. http://www.raccoonrollradio.com has past shows etc.
NOBR also has a stream of alternative music, shows like Salem Digest, The Moptops and The King, Boston Tackle Box etc.
We do plan to do our yearly remote from Evan's Deli in Marblehead Dec 21 at noon. I did attend a meeting last Apr at the
college union but it's pretty much over. 43 years, eh, what's that.
Uncle: Around Jan of this year, All of the weekend shows may now be heard on North Of Boston Radio and are archived.
We were doing shows remotely during pandemic but were told we couldn't do shows either remotely or in person. 91.7 has their
own student DJs but currently no longer streams (WE do).. (I set up a domain name for them, WMWM 91.7 Salem (wmwmsalem dot org) and they put up a bare bones site with no schedule).
We play what we want with no college interference. http://www.raccoonrollradio.com has past shows etc.
NOBR also has a stream of alternative music, shows like Salem Digest, The Moptops and The King, Boston Tackle Box etc.
We do plan to do our yearly remote from Evan's Deli in Marblehead Dec 21 at noon. I did attend a meeting last Apr at the
college union but it's pretty much over. 43 years, eh, what's that.
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A youtube video has a couple showing off the various real life places in Alice's Restaurant and they say WNEW NYC used to
regularly play the track, but now "104.3 does"
regularly play the track, but now "104.3 does"
WNEW-FM did run Alice each Thanksgiving, but a lot of the current audience for 102.7 wasn't yet born when the Rock Died and Opie & Anthony began dismantling it. I agree that if anyone's playing Arlo, it's Q104.3.
The song was mildly humourous, but is certainly long in the tooth now. I've heard it too many times for the jokes to be funny anymore. I'm curious if the stations that are still playing it are editing out the F word? The Archie Bunker character was known to use that word occasionally, but that was in a different era. It's hard to tell what's offensive these days...
Q104.3 FM
Every year on Thanksgiving we play "Alice's Restaurant" and we continue the tradition again this year. "Alice's Restaurant" is coming up on Q104.3! LISTEN LIVE:...
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I’m much more interested in keeping score of who still plays Alice’s Restaurant every year than I am in actually listening to it. In my local market, WPDH Poughkeepsie NY (the Home of Rock & Roll) will probably always play it. Q104.3 still does it, but WFUV (Fordham University) still makes it seem sort of cool. I’m old enough to appreciate it, but young enough to not tune in.
As an aside, here is one of the pictures from a 2007 trip I took to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. This is the place where Alice would have cooked up a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat. I got a quick tour of the building from the caretaker. (Arlo wasn't around at the time.)
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