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50+ Music<p>"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WesternSwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternSwing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/noveltySong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noveltySong</span></a> written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MerleTravis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MerleTravis</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TexWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexWilliams</span></a>, for Williams and his <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/talkingBlues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talkingBlues</span></a> style of singing. Travis wrote the bulk of the song. The original Williams version went to number one for 16 non-consecutive weeks on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HotCountrySongs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HotCountrySongs</span></a> chart and became a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/1HitInAugust1947" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1HitInAugust1947</span></a> and remained at the top of the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart for six weeks. It was written in 1947 and recorded on March 27, 1947. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUCsULR6ODA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=DUCsULR6ODA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Alice's Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlicesRestaurant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlicesRestaurant</span></a>", is a satirical <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/talkingBlues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talkingBlues</span></a> song by singer-songwriter <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArloGuthrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArloGuthrie</span></a>, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant. The song is a deadpan protest against the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VietnamWarDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWarDraft</span></a>, in the form of a comically exaggerated but largely true story from Guthrie's own life: while visiting acquaintances in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StockbridgeMassachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StockbridgeMassachusetts</span></a>, he is arrested. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLg_bzwvxg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=-yLg_bzwvx</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>