Arlo Guthrie: The Pause of Mr Clause

[@robinroche4429]

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.

[@ananda1958]

Meg Grimes and thanks even more to his father :) take a listen sometime :)

[@blunderite1]

I am sure most people that love Arlo are very well versed in Woody and Pete

[@superweak]

Robin Roche that’s right

[@johncook7281]

@Robin Roche, I completely agree. Listening to Arlo lifts my day.

[@johncook7281]

@@blunderite1 Absolutely.

[@Ravenmane13]

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!

[@raveythirteen5660]

@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. ♥

[@raveythirteen5660]

@Theseustoo Astyages I couldn't agree more!

[@MSYNGWIE12]

...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

[@raveythirteen5660]

@@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!

[@anthonyclose6992]

Yes I love the music my great uncle writes 😊

[@blunderite1]

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!!!!

[@ElainesDomain]

Thanks

[@lakota123max]

Thank u for doing this:)

[@gragor11]

" ... 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.

[@WirebenderAudio]

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]

The pause between "your friends" and "are they"-- and the sudden edge in "are they" are a masterclass in hitting hard.

[@tango_uniform]

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.

[@jerryjohnson28]

have been listening to this album at Christmas time forever have a couple tokes and enjoy😎

[@ShannonBradford]

My favorite Arlo Guthrie song. I agree about always feeling better after hearing him. He adds hope and sarcasm. What a wonderful combination.

[@guthriesfirstson2630]

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 ♥️

[@fspagat1]

This never gets old. Arlo at his best

[@chipbleonard3]

A camp counselor introduced us to this one summer along with the motorcycle song.

[@stevegallagher687]

Can't imagine what camp you were in. Classic.

[@chipbleonard3]

@@stevegallagher687 Believe it or not it was a church camp in VA. My counselors were great!

[@pbalister]

@@chipbleonard3 in the 1980's? Name of Mike?

[@chipbleonard3]

@@pbalister No it would have been around 1970. I'm old

[@gragor11]

@@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.

[@mauditanglais2510]

Another jewel re discovered! I love it. Thanks.

[@kimjoysmith57]

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

[@mrmjb1960]

I never heard this in its complete version,so,a real treat for me!

[@robinbostock5081]

Good to see after all these years. Bloody wonderfull ! ☮️♥️

[@johncook30284]

Hello from John up above.

[@supergroovepimp]

I FREAKIN' LUV THIS DUDE. THIS GUY IS THE "REAL DEAL" Light -hearted good luvin' shit man. Peace and god bless. ; )

[@clearfield2009]

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. ❤❤❤

[@lisawiggs8220]

I miss these great comic story tellers...such a lost art...Bob Newhart is another one...Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Bob & Ray...Thanks so much for posting this with the prologue..., possibly the best part of the "song..."😊

[@Tonysnewhouse]

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

[@raymondlara9239]

This was after, “ J da K”? JK , “ got to!”?

[@purpliciousdiva]

i miss the days when it only cost a dime to make a payphone call...i also miss the days of payphones ;X

[@WNCBabyLady]

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.

[@gragor11]

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.

[@ElainesDomain]

Thank you. I remember when this was a new release. Good to hear it again.

[@guthriesfirstson2630]

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]

@ElainesDomian Awwwwwww..... Thanks for all the love and continued support over the years❤💕... Where are you from huh?

[@ElainesDomain]

@@guthriesfirstson2630 In So Cal until a few years ago. I'm in jail for littering. Those glossy photos did me in.

[@guthriesfirstson2630]

@@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 ❤️

[@user-hh5rn4jz6o]

sounds just a fresh and fun as the first time I heard it - oh, 44 or so years ago.

[@gragor11]

53 years now in 2022. A time of mass digital surveillance and burgeoning face recognition software.

[@fernandomiller884]

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

[@arthur8557]

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.

[@ananda1958]

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!

[@gragor11]

Nothing like Christmas music. I recommend posting this lovely classic to your Book of Faces wall today ;)

[@tomross1408]

Ever since I was a kid... What a funny guy. Thank you, Arlo.

[@janetpattison8474]

Wow , incredible story. 💙🌸💙

[@Dulcimerea]

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.

[@kimberlyvandrielen5931]

Adore Arlo Guthrie. Woody too.

[@guthriesfirstson2630]

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 ♥️

[@thecountofbasie]

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

[@uno3015]

lovin it-good one!!!

[@shelll9254]

I'm loving it🐱!!

[@royscherer3862]

Favorite! I got arrested some years back after doing this song at a 4th of July Smoke-In.

[@Dulcimerea]

Tell that story man.

[@filmlabrat]

Takes me back so far I think I've got pimples again.

[@pontiuspilot9301]

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

[@gregmohr8927]

So, 16 FBI agents saw this, eh?

[@martinmunitz6753]

Love it.

[@joannehack7588]

❤️

[@johncook7281]

Robin Roche I feel the same, often. Well said. Thank you.

[@johncook7281]

@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.

[@moodymomma7876]

I'm ok with cloning if its Arlo being cloned. He is pure Genius! Thanks Arlo Guthrie.

[@crabgrass08]

this version with the FBI rap can also be found on the Warner Bros. sampler album "The 1969 Warner/Reprise Songbook"

[@terrynielsen4832]

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.

[@FRANKM1939]

Still applies after all these years!

[@johncook7281]

Once again ' Arlo a National Treasure ' along with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie.

[@lakota123max]

Awesome!

[@debbieleyva]

I adore Arlo.

[@guthriesfirstson2630]

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 ♥️

[@Hallands.]

Arlo has the best humor I've ever heard.

[@dnworks]

BRILLIANT!

[@williamdkeet9604]

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!""

[@lindadawson5928]

2022.love this

[@damoclesloraine3167]

So cool and even cooler to read all these fine comments. Thanks one and all.

[@greydensok2408]

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.

[@weaverfever55]

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

[@seatspud]

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..." ;)

[@christophermeade2419]

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

[@davidwalker563]

the great Christmas story

[@UN-SPUN-REVIEWS]

2024

[@wistric]

Merry Christmas America!

[@ann275]

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.

[@johncook30284]

True? I check this 3-4 times a year, so I'll know if you can add anything. Thanks.

[@thecountofbasie]

Wow...that brings me back...that's where I heard it the first time myself

[@drendahenson5287]

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

[@judithgips2959]

related though dad Woody or mom Marjiorie?

[@tgramful]

That means you are also his cousin, some times removed plus one...?

[@spodvoll]

Another great Christmas song written by a nice, Jewish boy! ;-)

[@sketchtwenty2]

This one has been updated. Check out "Gov't Tracking your iPhone? ONE TAKE with John Crist"

[@gregmohr8927]

Now it's up to 27 FBI agents that saw this (11-5-21).

[@stlbusker3025]

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

[@bonniebankston9974]

I have a pickle exspeachely when I ride my motor cyc... Le Fox greatest hits. Vol.711

[@antialiased]

Merry xmas 2018

[@christinesilvio3275]

This is so perfect for the current times. Too bad about that, ey?

[@JoeGarchar1960]

Yeah that McCabe and Comey are real shitholes!

[@blunderite1]

there is actually something comforting in that. he wrote this in real time, but hindsight, not so bad. we can hope.

[@sylvialane6071]

Hey feds, lookie here; I'm playing subversive Christmas songs again; better come get me!

[@BazmAfarin]

Funniest singer I have listened to.

[@SiiriCressey]

Is that a harpsichord?

[@georgesheffield1580]

You can hear his fathers influence .

[@FRANKM1939]

Odd how the past becomes the present.

[@janellevans878]

So true. President Rag is so now.

[@bonniebankston9974]

We should get together if y'all are going to rewrite my tunes lol

[@kenlee5509]

~6:47 for the santa bit

[@bunnyhead71]

+Ken Lee worth every second.

[@deanvaughan5288]

Now I understand why I don't trust Santa Claus,or the FBI,oh my.....

[@DgurlSunshine]

THIS 1312

[@robertbennie7889]

Timeless timeliness, given the FBI in 2017.

[@royalerathcliff5703]

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

[@MSYNGWIE12]

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...

[@steverogers2635]

And they're even worse now than they were then.

[@ishgabibble919]

40 10 by 5 glossy photos

[@lorrainedovey5073]

we at when a mum workrs[[[rall pkcles Watch out when mum whorkes it out arlo did

[@nctpti2073]

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 ;)

[@dellmobetter9451]

Some days people on reefer are too bad and mad to talk or dance for

[@acrannymint]

I love the rant about the FBI - too bad he is now a libertarian

[@Catzoodle]

Well bred and ingenious with talent to carry on an inherit trait. Nice soul as well.

[@steveschellenberg7485]

He's no dummy

[@johncook30284]

@RobinRoche4429 Arlo can save my troubled mind - everything will be alright

[@desertduck10]

Right there with Alice's Restaurant making meaningful tomless social statements