I feel old now, but also not too old, because I didnt even know the version with "Who the fuck is Alice?!" existed. Aparently I grew up just so I was too young for the original but right when this version was blasted everywhere 😅
Oh I remember listening to this version in school. Our teacher was a bit worried about the f-word but the CD had been “censored”. 😆 The only difference between the original version by 1970s band Smokie and the remix is the “Alice? Who the F is Alice?” 😉
I was driving through Germany in 1995 (from Serbia to Finland!) and this came on the radio. nearly drove off the road laughing. Thanks for the memories!!
@@limmuhnees 1st Time I'll Remember in 1995 That's A Good Song At Butlin's Minehead Soon I'll Found Out It Come From Comedian Roy Chubby Brown Say's Rude Joke's & Love The Who The F*** is Alice Song 24/7 Anytime On Dutch Radio 10 Station Thank's Chubb's.
Dat is wel echt Nice man! Ze draaiden dit nummer vroeger op een voetbal toernooi waar ik aan deelnam. Was toen jaar of 10. Na 20 jaar terug gevonden ( eerst via origineel, en nu hier). Toevallig ook woonachtig in Nijmegen dus grappig te lezen hoe de circle weer rond is
It's 1995 and we are driving in your little red Suzuki and this song comes on the radio , we all started singing and laughing... Great memory 😂😬😂🚗🎤 to always remember u Xxx
I was 4 years old living in the Netherlands and I heard this on school, and our teachers name was Alice. We where song this after school was over in our bad English "woe de fok is Alice" good memories
In Canada, NL stands for Newfoundland. That was my first thought, and while they do speak English, they actually speak it with some Old English sprinkled in and an indecipherable accent. Love all my fellow Canadians though, except maple Magas.
Reminds me of an aussie pub in the 90s we use to go to in London called the backpackers at Kings Cross. The whole place, singing this as loud as can be. Great nights.
Deze song heeft ervoor gezorgd da ik door verschillende harde, moeilijke periodes ben geraakt in mijn leven. Zo een mooi nummer met prachtige betekenis, love it.
Next to the railway station I used to use there was a bar which played this song a lot, so I've heard it almost every day when I was going home from high school. Good times
My boomer parents texted me & my bro from vacation in Aruba to excitedly tell us they found their new party song. Comments from around the world talk about the memories this song brings and here we are, an American family, and literally never heard this, or the original, until 2024. Never too late!
I can remember when this song sung by the band Smokie came out, late 70s as I recall, long before Dutch DJ, Gompie, decided to change the lyrics. Fast forward 20 years and one night in a bar and this came on and I was singing along happily thinking this was a strange ballad to play in a lively bar, then suddenly everyone started singing “who the f*** is Alice?” 😳 I couldn’t stop laughing and I’ve never been able to hear that song since without wanting to sing that famous lyric. 🤣 Smokie must be laughing all the way to the bank. 😂
I'm on a rugby team with a player called Alice. This song goes down a treat. You've never felt love like having your name yelled at you ALICE WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE by 25 of your closest friends, the coach and the physio. It's basically a victory lap of a song.
I was touring with a very large American Rock Marching Band - California Repercussions, on our way from Prague to Munich (for Oktoberfest) in 1995 when I heard that in a German McDonalds rest stop!
I heard this song for the first time last week in PV, Mexico. My friends and I all laughed our asses off seeing all the older people in the bar screaming “Alice?! Alice?!Who the fuck is Alice?!”. 😂😂 We got such a kick out of the song that we titled our photo album “Who the Fuck is Alice?!”. I can’t believe I haven’t heard this song before!
1995 me and my school mates played this on commercial DJ gear so loud one night we couldn't hear the cops pounding on the front door, they came around the back and thought we were smoking weed because we had the smoke machine going full blast and was pouring out all the windows. The cops ended up leaving laughing their heads off. 😂🇦🇺
No the original is from "New World' in 1975. And in 1978 it was a huge hit for 'Smokie', who really does not like when he plays this song and the whole crowd goes; "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?".
This song is awesome and all... But its not so great when you're four years old, sat in a supermarket trolley and SCREAMING it at the top of your lungs because your Dad and Grandpa thought it was hilarious My poor mother 😂😂😂
I just heard the original on the radio and the DJ said that if you've heard the 1995 version it's hard not to miss the catchphrase that was added it. I had to Google it to find this version.
I was playing soccer for my club team from the US, we were in Denmark. We went to a nightclub called Billy’s, they played this twice a night for the week we went there! 1995 was a great year!
-@Gompie, I can't find your comment,but I just recieved your response. Wow! You know alot! And so much about music and (Alice) Thanks you seriously made my day. I'm in a nursing home, not too much to smile about! Debbie 🤣
Funny thing they played it on my graduation after-party and for a long time I thought this was the original.😅 Well when hear the real original I always miss the catchphrase 😋
I know you asked a rhetorical question. But, the song makes me happy too and I’ve been wondering why i love it so. I think, the original version has such sadness and pathos. It pulls on the heart strings of anyone who has experienced unrequited love or even just fancied that ‘girl/boy next door’. I think it acts as the straight man in the ‘comedy duo’. Then, I just love that the audience ignore all that serious stuff and just shout a flippant response - “Alice, who the fuck is Alice”. Plus, I was lucky enough to have heard the serious version enough times before I heard the expletive version. So, I just love the idea that an audience has added to the lyrics of a song like that. It gives a ‘power to the people’ vibe to the whole project (like boaty mcboatface). Then there’s the basic joy of being in a crowd and singing anthems. Plus, you have the rhetorical devices in play such as diacope (a ‘word sandwich’ - starting and ending a line with the same word, Alice) which, subconsciously, makes the phrase particularly pleasing to the ear. All in all, I can’t think of any other song that has been supplemented by the audience like this. This is one of those comic phenomenons that I’d present to an extra terrestrial, next time they visit, and say, “forget the pyramids and nuclear bombs - this is the kind of shizzle that us humans are capable of, aren’t we funny fuckers?”.
ally called when she got the word And she said, "I suppose you've heard 'bout Alice" So I rushed to the window and I looked outside And I could hardly believe my eyes As a big limousine rode up into Alice's drive Oh, I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know 'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice 24 years just waitin' for a chance To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice We grew up together, two kids in the park Carved out initials deep in the bark, me and Alice Now she walks through the door with her head held high Just for a moment I caught her eye As the big limousine pulled slowly out of Alice's drive Oh, I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know 'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice 24 years just waitin' for a chance To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice Sally called back, and asked how I felt She said, "I know how to help, get over Alice" She said, "Alice is gone, but I'm still here You know I've been waiting 24 years" And the big limousine disappeared I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know 'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice 24 years just waitin' for a chance To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance But I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice Though I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice
Played this hundreds of times as a mobile D.J.Who the Fuck is Alice?Gompie played it to a fantastic group of bikers on a roll on/roll off ferry Hull to Belgium
Typical football derby Spartak Trnava vs Slovan Bratislava, the coach of guests called Galis. DJ on stadium did his part of job and always played this song. Galis, wtf is Galis! 🥳
I have a very strong, possibly false, memory of a Dennis Miller lookalike doing a cover of this song with an accompanying music video. Granted, this is when I was like 10 years old and I'm now 29. Am I going fucking insane or does this video exist?
bigbowlowrong i have memories like that from my childhood that i dont think ill ever quite get to the bottom of... not of that particular vision but ye get me point
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i was playing the original version on my guitar, and suddently my parents just SCREAMED the ‘who the f*ck is alice’ part... i was like :O
This came on the radio and I couldn’t help myself, I said it like a reflex. Back in 1995 it was everywhere!
I feel old now, but also not too old, because I didnt even know the version with "Who the fuck is Alice?!" existed. Aparently I grew up just so I was too young for the original but right when this version was blasted everywhere 😅
Quite right and so they should!
I wish i'd been a fly on the wall for that one!
Oh I remember listening to this version in school. Our teacher was a bit worried about the f-word but the CD had been “censored”. 😆
The only difference between the original version by 1970s band Smokie and the remix is the “Alice? Who the F is Alice?” 😉
I was driving through Germany in 1995 (from Serbia to Finland!) and this came on the radio. nearly drove off the road laughing. Thanks for the memories!!
Same... literally 💀
this man remembers details of radio songs in 95, meanwhile I have no idea wtf I did last week 😂
Yeah, something like this would catch you off guard something fierce.
DEUTSCHLAND!
ИСПОЛНЕНО ОЧЕНЬ ПЛОХО.КРИС НОРМАН ИСПОЛНЯЕТ ИСПОЛНЯЕТ ЭТУ ПЕСНЮ ПРО ЭЛИС В ПЕРВОЗДАННОМ ВИДИ.НЕЧЕМ ДАЖЕ СРАВНИВАТЬ ОДНА ЛАБУДА.
I was living in The Netherlands in 1995 when this song became a hit. I will always love it.
Im born in the nl and the week i was born this was nr 1 in the top 40
@@limmuhnees 1st Time I'll Remember in 1995 That's A Good Song At Butlin's Minehead Soon I'll Found Out It Come From Comedian Roy Chubby Brown Say's Rude Joke's & Love The Who The F*** is Alice Song 24/7 Anytime On Dutch Radio 10 Station Thank's Chubb's.
I remember this so well. Once heard, you can NEVER unhear it! And when they play the original, you miss the 'Who the fuck is Alice'
Do you say your name as Case? I too am Dutch and that is how my Papa says his name. And yes I agree with your comment 100%
@@LCHH Yes it is :)
This is the original…
@@dereidgenosse7273 Silly me, I always thought the original was by Smokie.
Totally agree I love this version so much so funny
I was in the pub while recording, and my voice is one of the many in the record, we had a blast! Café Gompie Nijmegen , good times!
Dat is wel echt Nice man! Ze draaiden dit nummer vroeger op een voetbal toernooi waar ik aan deelnam. Was toen jaar of 10. Na 20 jaar terug gevonden ( eerst via origineel, en nu hier). Toevallig ook woonachtig in Nijmegen dus grappig te lezen hoe de circle weer rond is
Had geen flauw benul dat het Hollanders waren, goud.
Typisch nederlands.... had het kunnen weten 😂
It's 1995 and we are driving in your little red Suzuki and this song comes on the radio , we all started singing and laughing... Great memory 😂😬😂🚗🎤 to always remember u Xxx
Same but in Black Ford Capri with my father.... Never forget this song. Greetings from Poland
Lived in Germany for 4 years, 96 to 2000. This played at every fest, and gathering for years... great memories !!!
I was 4 years old living in the Netherlands and I heard this on school, and our teachers name was Alice. We where song this after school was over in our bad English "woe de fok is Alice" good memories
Hahaha geweldig
Gaaf zeg ! Lol 😁 😆 🤣
2024 and love this song!
Now 2021 we are on the highway to Germany and listening to this song and still love this after so many years. Fantastic.
I think ''Who the F is Alice'' was the first sentence I could speak fluent English I was born in 1984 NL.
lol i believe you bro
In Canada, NL stands for Newfoundland. That was my first thought, and while they do speak English, they actually speak it with some Old English sprinkled in and an indecipherable accent. Love all my fellow Canadians though, except maple Magas.
Walked into Oktoberfest tent in Munich with wife just as the whole tent sang the chorus line. Laughed my ass off.
I was in Amsterdam with my best friend Christina. We heard this on a MTV style TV show. I ran out and bought the CD! Love it!
Was the TV show Countdown or TopPop by any chance?
Reminds me of an aussie pub in the 90s we use to go to in London called the backpackers at Kings Cross.
The whole place, singing this as loud as can be.
Great nights.
Yeah, we Aussies love our full out, shout it out, singalongs in every damned pub! 😂😂
Been looking for this version of the song. FINALLY!
The CD promo single to this was in the WSIA FM Music Library. I think that was the only known radio station in the US that ever played it.
i have got this song in Gold Colection. Great song!!! thanks for share it!!
Someone recently sang this at kareoke in a pub, and as if it were on impulse the whole pub questions "Alice? Who the f*ck is Alice?"
Deze song heeft ervoor gezorgd da ik door verschillende harde, moeilijke periodes ben geraakt in mijn leven. Zo een mooi nummer met prachtige betekenis, love it.
Juist
use to listen to this song as a kid in deutschland on the autobahn with a CD and had it on repeat quite often. such good times
Next to the railway station I used to use there was a bar which played this song a lot, so I've heard it almost every day when I was going home from high school. Good times
Seriously, if that guy didn' t manage to tell Alice how he was feeling IN 24 YEARS, he never will. Sally should see that as a warning!
My boomer parents texted me & my bro from vacation in Aruba to excitedly tell us they found their new party song. Comments from around the world talk about the memories this song brings and here we are, an American family, and literally never heard this, or the original, until 2024. Never too late!
I can remember when this song sung by the band Smokie came out, late 70s as I recall, long before Dutch DJ, Gompie, decided to change the lyrics. Fast forward 20 years and one night in a bar and this came on and I was singing along happily thinking this was a strange ballad to play in a lively bar, then suddenly everyone started singing “who the f*** is Alice?” 😳 I couldn’t stop laughing and I’ve never been able to hear that song since without wanting to sing that famous lyric. 🤣 Smokie must be laughing all the way to the bank. 😂
Blijft leuk na 27 jaar!
This song reminds me of my papa. I love it.
I heard it on the radio austria in 1995 ,me and my friend in a c/w bar got the singer to play it and we had the whole bar singing it
I'm on a rugby team with a player called Alice. This song goes down a treat. You've never felt love like having your name yelled at you ALICE WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE by 25 of your closest friends, the coach and the physio. It's basically a victory lap of a song.
I was touring with a very large American Rock Marching Band - California Repercussions, on our way from Prague to Munich (for Oktoberfest) in 1995 when I heard that in a German McDonalds rest stop!
I heard this song for the first time last week in PV, Mexico. My friends and I all laughed our asses off seeing all the older people in the bar screaming “Alice?! Alice?!Who the fuck is Alice?!”. 😂😂 We got such a kick out of the song that we titled our photo album “Who the Fuck is Alice?!”. I can’t believe I haven’t heard this song before!
classic. love that song. heard that like....20 years ago
I always play this with my Punk rock band and we always get the crowd to sing along.
love this song
I love this song,
1995 me and my school mates played this on commercial DJ gear so loud one night we couldn't hear the cops pounding on the front door, they came around the back and thought we were smoking weed because we had the smoke machine going full blast and was pouring out all the windows.
The cops ended up leaving laughing their heads off. 😂🇦🇺
This song still makes me laugh! And reminds me of Aruba, where I heard it first.
@L8keGal exactly where I heard on the Kukukanuba Bus!! You too?
@@lilamuzik3385 yes lol!! Years ago - still laugh!
@@L8keGal Did you meet "mama" who lead the bus pub crawl. She was a hoot on ours! We had a blast!
@@lilamuzik3385 No! Sadly!
Reminds me of Honiara 😅
Do you folks how big of a shock it was for me when after 20 years I learned this WASN'T the original?
No the original is from "New World' in 1975. And in 1978 it was a huge hit for 'Smokie', who really does not like when he plays this song and the whole crowd goes; "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?".
I love this song Version!!❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
I was a kid and they played this at weddings..and we used to shout Alice who the fuck is Alice 🤣🤣
One of the greatest hits played by DJ Zdenko in Disco La Mirage Gerovo.
I've been saying this for years
I had a girlfriend at university called Alice. This track really annoyed her.
This remix was awesome! I always loved the original but this was great! ❤
Great song
This was played at a bar in Amsterdam in half time Welsh rugby game- was hilarious 🤪🤪
This song is awesome and all... But its not so great when you're four years old, sat in a supermarket trolley and SCREAMING it at the top of your lungs because your Dad and Grandpa thought it was hilarious
My poor mother 😂😂😂
I was in scotland in 1995, doing my degree when this song became hits!😁
I just heard the original on the radio and the DJ said that if you've heard the 1995 version it's hard not to miss the catchphrase that was added it. I had to Google it to find this version.
dis is the national anthem of all songs… every weekend at the bar sme1 has to pic this song … Jus GR8
WOW LOVE THIS SONG...
Playing this full blast I'm having a party
Gompie rules!
Timeless
First time I heard this was in a bar on Soi Cowboy - years ago - been laughin' ever since 😄
Dem memories...
I LOVE THIS SONG LMAO
I was playing soccer for my club team from the US, we were in Denmark. We went to a nightclub called Billy’s, they played this twice a night for the week we went there! 1995 was a great year!
Yes I definitely agree this song hits you like you said stays with you
Still love it. Reminds me of 17 year old Me 😊
Think I was about 11 when i first heard this version of the song (or at the very least a close approximation) at a school disco of all places.
Last heard this in 95 in a beach bar in Goa... random :)
This was the drinking song in my youth.
-@Gompie, I can't find your comment,but I just recieved your response. Wow! You know alot! And so much about music and (Alice) Thanks you seriously made my day. I'm in a nursing home, not too much to smile about! Debbie 🤣
taking me back in time , ty
I only knwo this song cause they played on carneval today and i just cant get it out of my head
Funny thing they played it on my graduation after-party and for a long time I thought this was the original.😅 Well when hear the real original I always miss the catchphrase 😋
Trust me when I say I got every drink for free during St. Patrick's day when I was out with friends in my early 20's ..with my name being Alice❤
I remember sitting at a birthday party at Local restaurant and everybody started shouting... Who the fuck is Alice
Still so good
I wish I could find the dance version that was popular in the mid 1990s
Why does the Song make me happy? 😂😂😂
@ Army, maybe we like to hear curse words without feeling guilty.... I love the song too and my mouth is as filthy as theirs! 😂😂
I know you asked a rhetorical question. But, the song makes me happy too and I’ve been wondering why i love it so. I think, the original version has such sadness and pathos. It pulls on the heart strings of anyone who has experienced unrequited love or even just fancied that ‘girl/boy next door’. I think it acts as the straight man in the ‘comedy duo’. Then, I just love that the audience ignore all that serious stuff and just shout a flippant response - “Alice, who the fuck is Alice”. Plus, I was lucky enough to have heard the serious version enough times before I heard the expletive version. So, I just love the idea that an audience has added to the lyrics of a song like that. It gives a ‘power to the people’ vibe to the whole project (like boaty mcboatface). Then there’s the basic joy of being in a crowd and singing anthems. Plus, you have the rhetorical devices in play such as diacope (a ‘word sandwich’ - starting and ending a line with the same word, Alice) which, subconsciously, makes the phrase particularly pleasing to the ear. All in all, I can’t think of any other song that has been supplemented by the audience like this. This is one of those comic phenomenons that I’d present to an extra terrestrial, next time they visit, and say, “forget the pyramids and nuclear bombs - this is the kind of shizzle that us humans are capable of, aren’t we funny fuckers?”.
ally called when she got the word
And she said, "I suppose you've heard 'bout Alice"
So I rushed to the window and I looked outside
And I could hardly believe my eyes
As a big limousine rode up into Alice's drive
Oh, I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know
'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice
24 years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice
We grew up together, two kids in the park
Carved out initials deep in the bark, me and Alice
Now she walks through the door with her head held high
Just for a moment I caught her eye
As the big limousine pulled slowly out of Alice's drive
Oh, I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know
'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice
24 years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice
Sally called back, and asked how I felt
She said, "I know how to help, get over Alice"
She said, "Alice is gone, but I'm still here
You know I've been waiting 24 years"
And the big limousine disappeared
I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons, but I just don't wanna know
'Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice
24 years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
But I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice
Though I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice
You know they say legends live on and this era certainly has and it's been better than the 2021 trash
Kids love this song!!!😅
Good question. 🤭
Played this hundreds of times as a mobile D.J.Who the Fuck is Alice?Gompie played it to a fantastic group of bikers on a roll on/roll off ferry Hull to Belgium
No matter what, after so many years, when I hear this song my brain inserts the "Who the---- is Alice" part
UM GRANDE SUCESSO DOS 1995
60 dislikers STILL don't know who the fuck is Alice.
Alice? Who the f**ck is Alice? :D
Before Chubby, there was Gompie.
Best pub song
💯💯💋💋🤓🤓
En wij mor pintjes drinken en euh....wie was Alice?????😊😊😊😊😅😅😂😂😂😂😂i'm stoned and i missed it 😂😂😂😂😂
"Alice? Who the f**ck is Alice?" :D
Better stick with Sally she knows what she wants.
Llll
I prefer Mandy.... or Layla 😉
Typical football derby Spartak Trnava vs Slovan Bratislava, the coach of guests called Galis. DJ on stadium did his part of job and always played this song. Galis, wtf is Galis! 🥳
Funny thing 24 year since it was launched
if you really want to know, get hold of a copy of "Alice's Restraunt" by Arlo Guthrie. Then you will understand both Alice and Watergate.
61goingon16 classic song line
Listen to the original Arlo Guthrie version to find out the truth. It's available on youTube.
I have a very strong, possibly false, memory of a Dennis Miller lookalike doing a cover of this song with an accompanying music video. Granted, this is when I was like 10 years old and I'm now 29.
Am I going fucking insane or does this video exist?
bigbowlowrong i have memories like that from my childhood that i dont think ill ever quite get to the bottom of... not of that particular vision but ye get me point
Smokie. Look it up
GEILE SONG
I like this version better than the original.
Me too.
Me to
Just sooo funny x
This was the best idea ever I remeber it coming out and agreed the point cos who the actual fuck was Alice?
was Alice actually a real person? Im now wondering who the X is Alice??
I'm still thinking who the f..k is Alice 😅
Sally, just friendzone'd lol
was Gompie the first one who did this version, because i saw also other versions
Editing an article on Alice Springs and I can't stop singing this... Alas, my editor has vetoed "Who the Fuck is Alice?" as a headline.