Somehow, whenever I listen to Arlo, I always end up feeling like things will end up being okay. Even when it's a bit about how bad some things are. I have loved this artist since I was a kid and will until I die. Thanks Arlo for a lifetime of hope.
@ananda19589 жыл бұрын
Meg Grimes and thanks even more to his father :) take a listen sometime :)
@blunderite15 жыл бұрын
I am sure most people that love Arlo are very well versed in Woody and Pete
@superweak5 жыл бұрын
Robin Roche that’s right
@johncook72814 жыл бұрын
@Robin Roche, I completely agree. Listening to Arlo lifts my day.
@johncook72814 жыл бұрын
@@blunderite1 Absolutely.
@fspagat13 жыл бұрын
This never gets old. Arlo at his best
@Ravenmane1311 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with Arlo as a little girl when I saw him for the first time on the Muppet Show. :) It wasn't until my teens that I got to know more of his stuff and realized just how cool he really is! Awesome musician, heart of gold, and funnier than most stand-up comics. I've started my bike so many times while singing to myself, "I don't want a pickle....." ;) Arlo will always have a place in my heart!
@raveythirteen56604 жыл бұрын
@Theseustoo Astyages New account, so didn't see your reply right away. Yes! I remember my dad telling me about Woodie Guthrie when I discovered Arlo, Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson in his record collection. Woodie sounded a bit "too country" to my teenage ear, but I appreciate it more now that I'm older. :) Dad introduced me to a lot of great folk artists from the 60s. The first song I ever learned to play (on his 1968 Gibson Folk Acoustic) was "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills and Nash. My dad passed in 1989 but I still have that guitar, and the memory of him playing it, and teaching me on it. All the wonderful music from his generation will always remind me of him. ♥
@raveythirteen56603 жыл бұрын
@Theseustoo Astyages I couldn't agree more!
@MSYNGWIE122 жыл бұрын
...just wanna ride my motorsigh...Namaste from An Old-er ! Hippie who has Arlo and Alice in happier daze, the 60's, smiling for posterity, sitting on her window sill, under wind chimes and colored glass flowers and a tea tin on the ledge above "that came all the way from China..." Leonard Cohen, my second, Most Perfect Man ( my partner is the first, usually! Arlo's in the top five) L.C. wrote my favorite song of all time, all genres, SUZANNE, when things from China were still, exotic, mysterious and ever-so-cool...Namaste
@raveythirteen56602 жыл бұрын
@@MSYNGWIE12 Beautiful! You took me away right there. Leonard Cohen and I are from the same hometown. A friend of mine actually broke LC's window accidentally with a baseball when he was a kid. He said he was surprisingly cool about it. :) Suzanne is one of my favourites also, and I can't hear Hallelujah without getting at least a few goosebumps. :) Namaste, blessed be, and have a great day!
@anthonyclose699211 ай бұрын
Yes I love the music my great uncle writes 😊
@ShannonBradford5 жыл бұрын
My favorite Arlo Guthrie song. I agree about always feeling better after hearing him. He adds hope and sarcasm. What a wonderful combination.
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
Hello Shannon Bradford, I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️
@WirebenderAudio2 жыл бұрын
Arlo's comedic talents have always been grossly under-estimated. This routine has stuck with me for almost 50 years. I've referred to "the last guy" and "they aren't really your friends, are they?" for almost 50 years.
@charlesbleahy Жыл бұрын
The pause between "your friends" and "are they"-- and the sudden edge in "are they" are a masterclass in hitting hard.
@tango_uniform Жыл бұрын
Woody came to the Pacific Northwest and wrote some songs about the dams being built on the Columbia River. So, Arlo used to come to Portland and play some of the small theaters. I enjoyed them.
@jerryjohnson288 жыл бұрын
have been listening to this album at Christmas time forever have a couple tokes and enjoy😎
@mauditanglais25103 жыл бұрын
Another jewel re discovered! I love it. Thanks.
@robinbostock5081 Жыл бұрын
Good to see after all these years. Bloody wonderfull ! ☮️♥️
@johncook302849 ай бұрын
Hello from John up above.
@blunderite15 жыл бұрын
Hi, blunderite1 here. I often come back to this youtube video to take a listen, and to see the traffic. wow, 77,516 views. I was always curious as to why, no matter how long I waited, this video always was the first selection on the search, and why I never had problems with youtube licensing agreements. Tonight I saw that Arlo must have certified this video. I honestly only made it because, on the cd/album, they split the story from the song. So I edited them back together, used an Arlo pic and voila. Arlo approved!!!!
@ElainesDomain4 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@lakota123max3 жыл бұрын
Thank u for doing this:)
@gragor112 жыл бұрын
" ... as to why, ... , this video always was the first selection on the search, ..." Perhaps because it is shorter than Alice's Restaurant and gives the same 'feel good' feeling that Alice's does but with less time commitment.
@kimjoysmith5710 жыл бұрын
This is so real to life he should know better than anyone he is one of the original bad boys expressing his civil right freedom of speech I love it tell it like it is Arlo u r an inspiration to all who know how the lawdawgs invade our lives but choose to live them as we please just to mess with there heads
@mrmjb196011 жыл бұрын
I never heard this in its complete version,so,a real treat for me!
@Tonysnewhouse5 жыл бұрын
I First heard this Song in 1977 in Hilo Hawaii, My best man Brad Freeman was a DJ at KIPA one of three radio stations in Hilo, his show was called "Music for a Change" I was going through the records and I found this record by Arlo Guthrie and it was stamped "NOT FOR SALE" "Promotional Use Only" So we played it on the air and the listeners loved it. I recorded on a cassette tape along with two versions of the Motorcycle song and of course Alice's Restaurant. 30 years later I shared it with Ricky who Posted it for my 10 years later on my birthday. Aloha, Tony
@raymondlara92393 ай бұрын
This was after, “ J da K”? JK , “ got to!”?
@arthur855710 жыл бұрын
The very first concert I ever went to was Arlo Guthrie at Music Hall in Cincinnati, Oh. I was 14 and still to this day I remember that show with very fond memories. He has a rapport with an audience that is unmatched.
@ananda19589 жыл бұрын
arthur8557 My first concert was "jesus Christ super star" followed immediately by Elton john. Not as "cool" as a phil oches or a woody Guthrie, but first concerts are pretty awesome!
@supergroovepimp12 жыл бұрын
I FREAKIN' LUV THIS DUDE. THIS GUY IS THE "REAL DEAL" Light -hearted good luvin' shit man. Peace and god bless. ; )
@fernandomiller8842 жыл бұрын
from time to time I always come back to this video, and it always makes me lagh as the first time I've heard it
@clearfield2009 Жыл бұрын
I fell in love with Arlo after seeing him in his movie and he turned down the groupie who was offering herself after a show. I clearly remember the scene where he turns her down, she had a cold and was sniffling. She asked him why he turned her down, he let her down easy, saying, "I just don't want to catch your cold." I was around 10 years old but I remember thinking that Arlo is the only man on the planet who would turn down a groupie. It was in his movie but it felt very real. I think the scene was mostly improvised I fell hard and never fell out. ❤❤❤
@chipbleonard310 жыл бұрын
A camp counselor introduced us to this one summer along with the motorcycle song.
@stevegallagher6873 жыл бұрын
Can't imagine what camp you were in. Classic.
@chipbleonard33 жыл бұрын
@@stevegallagher687 Believe it or not it was a church camp in VA. My counselors were great!
@pbalister2 жыл бұрын
@@chipbleonard3 in the 1980's? Name of Mike?
@chipbleonard32 жыл бұрын
@@pbalister No it would have been around 1970. I'm old
@gragor112 жыл бұрын
@@chipbleonard3 My parents sent me off to a Junior Forest Ranger Camp for 17 year olds in the forests of "Northern' Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior. The were probably worried because I liked to listen to the likes of Arlo Guthrie no doubt . . . While I was there we helped a couple of archaeologists who were using us as labourers on a dig they were doing. Ya never know where one will get one's eyes opened be it a church or a forestry camp. They were both Yippies hiding out from the FBI after the disastrous (for Mayor Daley) Chicago Democratic Convention.
@user-hh5rn4jz6o11 жыл бұрын
sounds just a fresh and fun as the first time I heard it - oh, 44 or so years ago.
@gragor112 жыл бұрын
53 years now in 2022. A time of mass digital surveillance and burgeoning face recognition software.
@tomross14086 жыл бұрын
Ever since I was a kid... What a funny guy. Thank you, Arlo.
@purpliciousdiva10 жыл бұрын
i miss the days when it only cost a dime to make a payphone call...i also miss the days of payphones ;X
@WNCBabyLady5 жыл бұрын
I don't miss them at all. Nasty ol' phones and phone booths. Yuck! I grew up in the metro NY/NJ area and the blankety blank blank blank that one saw and smelled in phone booths! No!! But the dime was great, I agree.
@gragor112 жыл бұрын
2022 and I still carry two quarters in my wallet just in case I have to use the last existing pay phones in existence in our area. Of course I only just got a donor cel phone about 6 months ago, because of the impossibility of conducting business with agencies ie like the power company without one. But the irony of the power carrying one of these cel phone geo-location transmitter devices in my pocket bestows on surveillance agencies, the likes of the FBI, CSIS or the RCMP, after listening to this song 50+ years ago is not lost on me.
@janetpattison84743 жыл бұрын
Wow , incredible story. 💙🌸💙
@ElainesDomain4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I remember when this was a new release. Good to hear it again.
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
Hello ElaineDomian, I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
@ElainesDomian Awwwwwww..... Thanks for all the love and continued support over the years❤💕... Where are you from huh?
@ElainesDomain Жыл бұрын
@@guthriesfirstson2630 In So Cal until a few years ago. I'm in jail for littering. Those glossy photos did me in.
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
@@ElainesDomain Wishing you and your family a Happy and Healthy New Year! Thanks for your kind words and well wishes, I will be very pleased to chat with you more frequently via other means of chatting if you're available ❤️
@gragor116 жыл бұрын
Nothing like Christmas music. I recommend posting this lovely classic to your Book of Faces wall today ;)
@kimberlyvandrielen59315 жыл бұрын
Adore Arlo Guthrie. Woody too.
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
Hello Kimberly Van Drielen, I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️
@joannehack7588 Жыл бұрын
❤️
@debbieleyva4 жыл бұрын
I adore Arlo.
@guthriesfirstson2630 Жыл бұрын
Hello Debbie Brown, I thank you for just being an amazing fan - over the years and following my music. Seriously -I’m so grateful to be able to share my music 🎶 to the world ♥️
@gregmohr89274 жыл бұрын
So, 16 FBI agents saw this, eh?
@johncook72812 жыл бұрын
Once again ' Arlo a National Treasure ' along with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie.
@thecountofbasie11 жыл бұрын
One day this'll be as much a Christmas standard as "Alice's Restaurant" is for Thanksgiving...thanks for the share and smile...happy holidays everyone
@moodymomma78764 жыл бұрын
I'm ok with cloning if its Arlo being cloned. He is pure Genius! Thanks Arlo Guthrie.
@shelll92543 жыл бұрын
I'm loving it🐱!!
@johncook72814 жыл бұрын
Robin Roche I feel the same, often. Well said. Thank you.
@Dulcimerea2 жыл бұрын
So, at Newport, I think it was '67, or whenever the year Arlo introduced "Alice's Restaurant", after a workshop, he was being interviewed by a German magazine. And when he was done, all 18 years of me walked up, and he looked at me me, and I said "So, what are you gonna do?", and Arlos said "I don't know". Seven or so years later I met Jackie in KC, Kansas, and promised to sent Arlo an autoharp. It took forty years, but finally did it. He wrote back and said it was hung up in his garden, up there in Washington County.
@uno301511 жыл бұрын
lovin it-good one!!!
@royscherer38627 жыл бұрын
Favorite! I got arrested some years back after doing this song at a 4th of July Smoke-In.
@Dulcimerea2 жыл бұрын
Tell that story man.
@johncook72814 жыл бұрын
@Adam Rich Arlo one said before a song in concert " Folk song are serious. Pete Seeger told me that. I said right!" Then he sang something like this. Still love City of New Orleans, Gabriel Mother's Highway Blues #16 gardensong song Darkest Hour, Strangest Dream. Him singing This Land Is Your Land.
@weaverfever555 жыл бұрын
Arlo Guthrie Thx for what you left us...we aint got it that bad after all,99%of Worry Never Happens its just worry Merry Christmas 2018
@FRANKM19397 жыл бұрын
Still applies after all these years!
@martinmunitz67534 жыл бұрын
Love it.
@filmlabrat11 жыл бұрын
Takes me back so far I think I've got pimples again.
@damoclesloraine316710 жыл бұрын
So cool and even cooler to read all these fine comments. Thanks one and all.
@Hallands.4 жыл бұрын
Arlo has the best humor I've ever heard.
@williamdkeet9604 Жыл бұрын
I first heard this in 1971, on one of the Warner Brothers compilation albums and have been singing it every since. ./~ Santa Clause has a red suit he's a communist" chuckle. I love it. "I know. You can't stand up and say "Hey!""
@spodvoll8 ай бұрын
Another great Christmas song written by a nice, Jewish boy! ;-)
@lindadawson59282 жыл бұрын
2022.love this
@dnworks3 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT!
@greydensok2408 Жыл бұрын
Under another name I call Arlo Guthrie a national treasure. I still think so. To me his sarcasm as some call this, lacks the anger some people have so strongly that any humor is lost when they speak. I like Jimmy Buffet but Arlo is funnier to me. Arlo sarcasm no more, just having fun. Nobody's hurt. Arlo 💖 genuine American.
@drendahenson52874 жыл бұрын
Arlo was my mom's cousin some times removed. He is just a cutie with his talent and heritage make him one of a kind and most of all just cute as a spotted pup.i wish he was my kissing cousin
@judithgips29594 жыл бұрын
related though dad Woody or mom Marjiorie?
@tgramful4 жыл бұрын
That means you are also his cousin, some times removed plus one...?
@pontiuspilot93014 жыл бұрын
Good day blunderite1, It is Christmas eve 2019, 2am on the 25th. I want to thank you and Arlo for this gift of laughter. Peace and Love and joy in these trying times, from Canada
@seatspud9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I know all about that very last guy, know how it feels. Even though I myself am not the last guy, more like one of the guys in the middle somewhere. But I know the feeling, anyway. However, I also know about the next-to-last guy. He too, has to get his excitement also. And he too has to bum a dime, find a phone, put in his dime, dial a number, and he clears his throat, and he says... "It's me ag'in Margaret..." ;)
@christophermeade24193 жыл бұрын
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come nor powers 39 nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. “Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding.”-PROVERBS 3:5. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. “Openly confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may get healed.” (James 5:16) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. “In my flesh, there dwells nothing good.” (Romans 7:18) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. “If, then, you are bringing your gift to the altar and you there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar, and go away; first make your peace with your brother, and then, when you have come back, offer up your gift.”-Matt. 5:23, 24. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Jesus said to him: “Get up! Pick up your mat* and walk.”+ 9 And the man immediately got well, and he picked up his mat* and began to walk. Bill W. Quotes this one in the big book ^^^ Jesus says, 'no one comes to the Father except through me.' (If you are rationalising, you are doing something wrong - mine) Jehovah is God, may He pour His Holy Spirit out upon us. Jesus Christ is Lord, Saviour and King. Maybe I'll stick around A.A. in case I can help someone else. The teachers shall be judged more harshly than the students. Jehovah has the final say. P.S. You might need a bigger banner, I'm not joking, I am in earnest. The scripture should go above the steps
@ann2755 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful, Arlo. My dad was an FBI agent and he would agree with you about his job being a drag. He really didnt like it.
@johncook302849 ай бұрын
True? I check this 3-4 times a year, so I'll know if you can add anything. Thanks.
@davidwalker5637 жыл бұрын
the great Christmas story
@lakota123max3 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@thecountofbasie11 жыл бұрын
Wow...that brings me back...that's where I heard it the first time myself
@crabgrass0811 жыл бұрын
this version with the FBI rap can also be found on the Warner Bros. sampler album "The 1969 Warner/Reprise Songbook"
@terrynielsen48324 жыл бұрын
I still have the "1969 Warner/Reprise Songbook" album. That's where I first heard it. I haven't had a working turntable for decades. I have a copy on reel-to-reel tape. My recorder also stopped working decades ago. Maybe I'll get them fixed some day but it's usually so easy to find my old songs on youtube I don't bother. I do miss hearing entire albums and putting on a tape so I could listen for 1.5 hours of my favorite songs without interruption.
@wistric2 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas America!
@bonniebankston99743 жыл бұрын
I have a pickle exspeachely when I ride my motor cyc... Le Fox greatest hits. Vol.711
@sylvialane60716 жыл бұрын
Hey feds, lookie here; I'm playing subversive Christmas songs again; better come get me!
@georgesheffield15808 ай бұрын
You can hear his fathers influence .
@MSYNGWIE122 жыл бұрын
Did "The Hoove", J. Edgar, The Head, REALLY wear dresses? Who started that rumor. Wasn't Arlo. Imagine wasting taxpayers money, harassing a sweetheart like Arlo Guthrie, son of a true hero, Woody. Dumb or what? Love you Arlo. Your picture, with Alice, sits on my kitchen window sill, above the sink under crystal sunflowers and wind chimes...Yes, I'm a hippie and proud of it! Namaste World, BE NICE TO EACH OTHER TODAY, TONIGHT...
@stlbusker30254 жыл бұрын
Here it is the last of May 2020, and how many of you knew exactly what he was talking about when he said 'drop a dime into the phone'!....but there hasn't been a pay phone since about 1990....so that's what.... 30 years or so? And even if this was 1990, a phone call then cost like 50cents or more! lol..... But still yet, so many of you knew that at one point in your lifetime, you could make a phone call for a mere dime!....and you didn't think that time travel was possible..... just shows to go you what you know! lol
@BazmAfarin4 жыл бұрын
Funniest singer I have listened to.
@gregmohr89272 жыл бұрын
Now it's up to 27 FBI agents that saw this (11-5-21).
@sketchtwenty24 жыл бұрын
This one has been updated. Check out "Gov't Tracking your iPhone? ONE TAKE with John Crist"
@christinesilvio32757 жыл бұрын
This is so perfect for the current times. Too bad about that, ey?
@JoeGarchar19606 жыл бұрын
Yeah that McCabe and Comey are real shitholes!
@blunderite15 жыл бұрын
there is actually something comforting in that. he wrote this in real time, but hindsight, not so bad. we can hope.
@DgurlSunshine2 жыл бұрын
THIS 1312
@royalerathcliff5703 Жыл бұрын
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
@steverogers26354 жыл бұрын
And they're even worse now than they were then.
@deanvaughan52884 жыл бұрын
Now I understand why I don't trust Santa Claus,or the FBI,oh my.....
@antialiased5 жыл бұрын
Merry xmas 2018
@FRANKM193910 жыл бұрын
Odd how the past becomes the present.
@janellevans8785 жыл бұрын
So true. President Rag is so now.
@nctpti20732 жыл бұрын
Arlo Guthrie was brilliant and lived in difficult times, times with a lot of change, but there were a lot of questionable ideas from that era from both sides. Police guys mess with peace guys because too many peace guys are not as peaceful as they claim. 'Peaceful' occupation, even in protest, is still occupation. Rule by a calm mob is just as much mob rule as rule by an angry mob and not all protesters stay calm. Yes, the government does sometimes get out of line and yes, the Vietnam War in particular was very questionable, however society having rules and enforcement of those rules is not in and of itself automatically wrong. Besides, the US already had socialist systems in place in the 60's (welfare systems, old age security, public education, etc) and on the other side, Santa knows when you are sleeping, knows when you're awake. Santa monitors far more stringently than the FBI ;)
@SiiriCressey2 жыл бұрын
Is that a harpsichord?
@bonniebankston99743 жыл бұрын
We should get together if y'all are going to rewrite my tunes lol
@robertbennie78897 жыл бұрын
Timeless timeliness, given the FBI in 2017.
@ishgabibble9192 жыл бұрын
40 10 by 5 glossy photos
@kenlee55099 жыл бұрын
~6:47 for the santa bit
@bunnyhead718 жыл бұрын
+Ken Lee worth every second.
@dellmobetter94514 жыл бұрын
Some days people on reefer are too bad and mad to talk or dance for
@acrannymint10 жыл бұрын
I love the rant about the FBI - too bad he is now a libertarian
@Catzoodle5 жыл бұрын
Well bred and ingenious with talent to carry on an inherit trait. Nice soul as well.
@steveschellenberg74853 жыл бұрын
He's no dummy
@johncook3028411 ай бұрын
@RobinRoche4429 Arlo can save my troubled mind - everything will be alright
@desertduck108 ай бұрын
Right there with Alice's Restaurant making meaningful tomless social statements