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ALICE'S RESTAURANT.

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For the first time in many years, I did not get a chance to hear which of the northern New England rock based formatted stations got it right by playing Alice's Restaurant around noon or throughout the day... I'm sure WEQX, WEBK, WIZN, Champ, "The Point", WGIR-FM, WHEB got it right. I think last year, the Nassau rockers blew the call, anyone want to chime in.. Happy Black Friday...
 
Frank continued their legacy of ripping off every idea the Blimp ever came up with and played it.

Happy Franksgiving? No THanks.
 
Our triple A WMWV-FM played it.

How was frank ripping of WBLM in playing it? Nearly every classic rock and triple A station I have ever heard makes a big deal of playing that song on thanksgiving...
 
cooper said:
Our triple A WMWV-FM played it.

How was frank ripping of WBLM in playing it? Nearly every classic rock and triple A station I have ever heard makes a big deal of playing that song on thanksgiving...
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Curiously, when did this tradition start? I don't remember it much before the late 80s. I worked at an AOR in the mid-80s & I'm pretty sure we didn't play it.
 
The WSJ last week had a story about Alice and her gallery space in Provincetown.
 
Old Bones said:
Curiously, when did this tradition start? I don't remember it much before the late 80s. I worked at an AOR in the mid-80s & I'm pretty sure we didn't play it.
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IIRC the tradition goes back to the 70s, hardly surprising since Arlo's song is about a Thanksgiving Day incident.
I remember hearing it on WNEW-FM practically every Thanksgiving since the song was released (1969?).
 
i can recall WBCN and WCOZ playing it in the mid-70's. when i first came to Maine in '78, 'BLM was serving it up for t-day. and then when Randi arrived at WMGX in the early 80's, she featured her "music to cook turkeys by..." which always included a serving of Arlo, plus a spice-rack full of food-themed tunes.(even a little American Pie for desert)
 
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