David Gates

His album, The David Gates Songbook, released in 2002, featured several new songs.
. Having spent several years out of music altogether, Gates returned to the spotlight in the 1990s, and is still writing and performing. In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice Brock's former home, which had been made famous by the song, and converted it to the Guthrie Center (http://www.guthriecenter.org), an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions. However, many of his songs have been successfully covered by other artists, including "If" (a huge hit for Telly Savalas) and "Everything I Own" (covered by, among others, Boy George). He collaborated with poet Adrian Mitchell to tell the story of Chilean folk singer and activist Víctor Jara in song. Gates' distinctive singing voice and boy-next-door good looks helped ensure his popularity. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice.

After Bread split up, he composed the theme song for the Oscar-winning film, The Goodbye Girl. He also had a minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles". Success came early, but it was with Bread that he gained a wide following and a string of hits including:. Guthrie also made famous Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a paean to long-distance rail travel. David Gates (born December 11, 1940) is a singer and songwriter, best known as the front man of the group, Bread (formed in 1967). Gates was born in Oklahoma, dropped out of college and married young, and set off for California to begin a career in music. The song also provided the scenario (and much of the soundtrack) for the film Alice's Restaurant (movie). "Lost without your Love" (1976). (compare with the song "Haddocks' Eyes" in Through the Looking-Glass).

"Everything I Own" (1972). To quote one of the song's Carrollian twists:. "If" (1971). There are many parodies of the song as well. "Make it with You" (1970). Alice's Restaurant was revised and updated some years later to protest Reagan era policies, but the second version has not been released on a commercial recording. The first recording of the song was done at the exact same time as the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

The lyrics to the song can be found at this location on Guthrie's web site: [1] (http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml) Although it has some fantastical elements, it is based on a true story. "Alice's Restaurant" is regularly played on some radio stations every Thanksgiving. The song describes how Guthrie was hauled into court for littering some of Alice's garbage after discovering that the dump was closed for Thanksgiving, and because of the resulting criminal record he was eventually rejected as unfit for military service when he was called up for the draft. The characters in the story, including both Alice and "officer Obie", who arrested him, became famous in their own right as a result of the song. Alice, in this case, was restaurant owner Alice Brock, who lived in a former church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, recounts a true Thanksgiving adventure that began at Alice's Restaurant, where "you can get anything you want (excepting Alice)". His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant", a story song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds. He graduated from the controversial Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947.

Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie. Mystic Journey (1996). Alice's Restaurant - The Massacree Revisted (1996). More Together Again (1994).

2 Songs (1992). Son of the Wind (1992). All Over the World (1991). Someday (1986).

Precious Friend (1982). Power Of Love (1981). Outlasting the Blues (1979). One Night (1978).

The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1977). Amigo (1976). Together In Concert (1975). Arlo Guthrie (1974).

Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973). Hobo's Lullaby (1972). Washington County (1970). Running Down the Road (1969).

Arlo (1968). Alice's Restaurant (1967).