Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened; torn near opening-edge on front). Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Inner-sleeve is plastic. 1968 stereo pressing with steamboat label. (Not a cut-out.)
Alice's Restaurant, an album by Arlo Guthrie features one of his most famous songs, Alice's Restaurant Massacree, peaked at No. 17 on Billboard 200. Alice's Restaurant Massacree is a musical monologue based on a true incident in his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name. Apart from the chorus which begins and ends it, the "song" is in fact a spoken monologue, with ragtime guitar backing. In an interview for All Things Considered, Guthrie said the song points out that any American citizen who was convicted of a crime, no matter how minor (in his case, it was littering), could avoid being conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War. The Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, who in 1964 used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a de-consecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband Ray would live. It was here rather than at the restaurant—which came later—where the song's Thanksgiving dinners were actually held. The song lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds, occupying the entire A-side of Guthrie's 1967 debut record album which prevented it from being released as a single (it wouldn't fit on a 45 rpm vinyl). Therefore, it never was considered for a Billboard single. It is notable as a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, in addition to being a hit song in its own right. The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the U.S. draft, and to end war.