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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Let’s visit “Alice’s Restaurant” (1967)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

For many, it has become as much of a Thanksgiving tradition as turkey and dressing.  Arlo Guthrie’s immortal recording “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” was added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2017.  Not long after, music journalist Hank Reineke kindly wrote about it for the Library.  In honor of this holiday, we share …

Posted in: National Recording Registry, Recorded Sound, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized

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It’s scandalous! It’s immoral! It’s the “Turkey Trot”!

Posted by: Karen Fishman

This blog post was co-written with Jan McKee, Reference Librarian, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress. This year, after Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family, why not burn off some of those calories and thwart those tryptophans by dancing the Turkey Trot instead of sleeping on the living room sofa?  This vigorous dance was developed …

Posted in: Early Recording Industry, Jukebox, Recorded Sound, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized