While there's certainly no shortage of Christmas songs on the radio this time of year, dedicated Thanksgiving tunes are pretty hard to come by. In fact, most people can only think of one song that's truly considered a Thanksgiving tradition ... and it's not really about the holiday at all.
Inspired by a real-life event on Thanksgiving Day, 1965, Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (the song's full name is actually "Alice's Restaurant Massacree") was released in 1967, and in the years since, it's become a custom for radio stations across the country to play the nearly 19-minute-long song in the middle of the day on Thanksgiving.
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