When Alice Comes Back to the Farm
"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" | ||||
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Single by The Move | ||||
from the album Looking On | ||||
B-side | "What?" | |||
Released | 9 October 1970 | |||
Recorded | 1970 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 3:15 | |||
Label | Fly (UK) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Roy Wood | |||
Producer(s) | Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne | |||
The Move singles chronology | ||||
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"When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" is a rock-blues song recorded by The Move and written and sung by Roy Wood. Musically, it is a hard rock song and features Wood playing slide guitar, cello and baritone saxophone, reinforcing Rick Price's bassline.
Release
Taken from the 1970 album Looking On and released as a single on the Fly label, "Alice" failed to chart, largely due to lack of airplay by BBC radio stations. The song allegedly made mild references to cannabis—"Alice", "time for tearing out the weeds", and the last line "don't get around much anymore", which is a description of the singer's condition rather than a reference to the Duke Ellington song.[according to whom?]
References
- When Alice Comes Back to the Farm at AllMusic. Retrieved 19:56, 19 August 2017 (UTC).
- The Move - When Alice Comes Back To The Farm (1970, Vinyl) on Discogs
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- Phil Tree
- Neil Lockwood
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- Looking On
- Message from the Country
- Split Ends
- "Night of Fear"
- "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
- "Flowers in the Rain"
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- "Wild Tiger Woman"
- "Blackberry Way"
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- "Tonight"
- "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues
- "Chinatown"
- "California Man"
- "Do Ya"
- Members
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Wizzard
- Steve Gibbons
- Don Arden
- Tony Secunda
- Richard Tandy
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