Alice's Restaurant: Difference between revisions

The original album spent 16 weeks on the ''[[Billboard 200]]'' album chart, peaking at #29 during the week of March 2, 1968,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1968-03-02|title=Top 200 Albums {{!}} Billboard 200 chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> then reentered the chart on December 27, 1969, after the [[Alice's Restaurant (film)|film version]] was released, peaking that time at #63.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/arlo-guthrie/chart-history/tlp/ |title=Arlo Guthrie Billboard Chart History |publisher=billboard.com |access-date=2018-02-01}}</ref> In the wake of the film version, Guthrie recorded a more [[single (music)|single]]-friendly edit of the chorus in 1969. Titled "Alice's Rock & Roll Restaurant", it included three verses, all of which advertise the restaurant, and a fiddle solo by country singer [[Doug Kershaw]]; to fit the song on a record, the monologue was removed, bringing the song's length to 4:43. This version, backed with "Ring Around the Rosy Rag" (a cut from the ''Alice's Restaurant'' album), peaked at #97 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicvf.com/Arlo+Guthrie.art |title=Arlo Guthrie Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts |publisher=Musicvf.com |access-date=2015-11-26}}</ref> and #64 in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6105.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - January 24, 1970}}</ref> Because the single did not reach the popularity of the full version, which did not qualify for the Hot 100 because of its length, ''Billboard'' officially classifies Guthrie as a [[one-hit wonder]] for his later hit "[[City of New Orleans (song)|City of New Orleans]]".<ref>Jancik, Wayne (1997). ''The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders''.</ref>

 

 

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