Inspired by a real-life event on Thanksgiving Day, 1965, Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (the song's full name is actually “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”) was released in 1967, and in the years since, it's become a custom for radio stations across the country to play the nearly 19-minute-long song in the middle of the day on Thanksgiving.
As Smithsonian Magazine reported, the "first breakthrough" for "Alice's Restaurant" came when the song made its February 1967 radio debut on New York City’s WBAI-FM.
By the spring, WBAI was getting so many requests to play "Alice's Restaurant" that the non-profit station used the song to raise funds.
"Alice's Restaurant" found still more popularity at the historic Newport Folk Festival that same year, where an afternoon performance of the song was met with such enthusiasm that Guthrie was brought back to play during the evening, this time joined by a lineup of famous folk musicians.
In the years since, "Alice's Restaurant" continues to attract new listeners, thanks to those repeated broadcasts and Guthrie playing the song at his annual Thanksgiving concerts at New York City's Carnegie Hall. In 2017, "Alice's Restaurant" was added to the National Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
“This coming Thanksgiving will be the first without her,” Guthrie wrote on Facebook at the time, per Far Out. “Alice and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded like her old self. We joked around and had a couple of good laughs even though we knew we’d never have another chance to talk together.”
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