Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumors are based primarily on strong allusions to McCartney's death in Beatle song lyrics and in the art work on their albums. Apple, Inc., the Beatles' own music company, released a statement attributed to McCartney yesterday, saying that "the whole thing is too silly for words...
...Arlo, he wandered off with a guest talking about a tree house he wanted to build in the woods. Alice's Restaurant, the Arthur Penn movie based on his song, had opened the night before in nearby Pittsfield and had been roundly snarled at by two local critics. If Arlo knew, he didn't care. He was a married man now, and what mattered was taking care of the roses, buying a plow for his four-wheel-drive truck and rounding up those puppies...
Shirley Bassey and Oliver will sing, Woody Allen will be funny, and Lee Marvin will scowl his way through a song from Paint Your Wagon...
...surface anyway, the story of how Arlo gets busted on a ridiculous littering charge in Stockbridge and later discovers that the charge will exempt him from military responsibilities to the United States. Like the Flatt and Scruggs' banjo music that underscores Bonnie and Clyde, Arlo's song of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" gives an essentially tragic movie the look of a comedy...
...Pete Secger who is singing that song-Secger, a man who was blacklisted and red-baited for most of the past twenty years. It's Woody Guthrie who wrote the song-Guthrie, a man who fought for the best in America only to see the best lose out to the worst. Woody's presence casts a spell of doom over every bit of Alice's Restaurant: He at least kept the faith: Arlo and the rest of us can't even do that...