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!!
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.
@@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
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 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
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 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.
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
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 😂😂😂
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. 😂🇦🇺
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!
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
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!
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?”.
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.
-@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 🤣
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 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 😋
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
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
@@chriskwakernaat2328 Could have been too. Still, it could have been almost anyone now that I come to think of it. Now I'm wondering if it was Alice's landlord, or perhaps even (maybe) a person who knew Smokey well enough to call him, but who'd also been stalking Alice for decades. You know, it's like I can't let go of this.
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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.
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! 😂😂
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 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 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 😂
2024 and love this song!
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
Lived in Germany for 4 years, 96 to 2000. This played at every fest, and gathering for years... great memories !!!
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
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!
Now 2021 we are on the highway to Germany and listening to this song and still love this after so many years. Fantastic.
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 😁 😆 🤣
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?"
I had a girlfriend at university called Alice. This track really annoyed her.
Walked into Oktoberfest tent in Munich with wife just as the whole tent sang the chorus line. Laughed my ass off.
I love this song Version!!❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
Blijft leuk na 27 jaar!
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?".
Been looking for this version of the song. FINALLY!
I was a kid and they played this at weddings..and we used to shout Alice who the fuck is Alice 🤣🤣
This remix was awesome! I always loved the original but this was great! ❤
This song reminds me of my papa. I love it.
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!
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 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?
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
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!!
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
classic. love that song. heard that like....20 years ago
En wij mor pintjes drinken en euh....wie was Alice?????😊😊😊😊😅😅😂😂😂😂😂i'm stoned and i missed 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
love this song
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 😂😂😂
This was the drinking song in my youth.
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. 😂🇦🇺
I was in scotland in 1995, doing my degree when this song became hits!😁
I wish I could find the dance version that was popular in the mid 1990s
60 dislikers STILL don't know who the fuck is Alice.
I always play this with my Punk rock band and we always get the crowd to sing along.
One of the greatest hits played by DJ Zdenko in Disco La Mirage Gerovo.
I've been saying this for years
WOW LOVE THIS SONG...
First time I heard this was in a bar on Soi Cowboy - years ago - been laughin' ever since 😄
This was played at a bar in Amsterdam in half time Welsh rugby game- was hilarious 🤪🤪
Playing this full blast I'm having a party
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 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!
Great song
dis is the national anthem of all songs… every weekend at the bar sme1 has to pic this song … Jus GR8
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 😅
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.
Alice? Who the f**ck is Alice? :D
I remember sitting at a birthday party at Local restaurant and everybody started shouting... Who the fuck is Alice
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 LOVE THIS SONG LMAO
Timeless
Dem memories...
Before Chubby, there was Gompie.
Yes I definitely agree this song hits you like you said stays with you
Gompie rules!
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
Still love it. Reminds me of 17 year old Me 😊
UM GRANDE SUCESSO DOS 1995
Kids love this song!!!😅
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!
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?”.
"Alice? Who the f**ck is Alice?" :D
Last heard this in 95 in a beach bar in Goa... random :)
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.
-@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 🤣
Good question. 🤭
You know they say legends live on and this era certainly has and it's been better than the 2021 trash
Best pub song
I only knwo this song cause they played on carneval today and i just cant get it out of my head
No matter what, after so many years, when I hear this song my brain inserts the "Who the---- is Alice" part
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! 🥳
Still so good
I'm still thinking who the f..k is Alice 😅
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 😋
taking me back in time , ty
I like this version better than the original.
Me too.
Me to
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
Better stick with Sally she knows what she wants.
Llll
I prefer Mandy.... or Layla 😉
Sally, just friendzone'd lol
Good at Funerals
Pray for Sally...😊
61goingon16 classic song line
This good one when am angry
GEILE SONG
Whos watching in 2023
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
Funny thing 24 year since it was launched
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.
My neighbours wish they live next door to Alice in 2022. But my name is Kelly lol
Who the f*ck is Sally? That's what I wanna know.
sounds like his sister.
@@chriskwakernaat2328 Could have been too.
Still, it could have been almost anyone now that I come to think of it.
Now I'm wondering if it was Alice's landlord, or perhaps even (maybe) a person who knew Smokey well enough to call him, but who'd also been stalking Alice for decades.
You know, it's like I can't let go of this.
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.
Just sooo funny x
Died a lot better now than yesterday and I was on a min xx and the more I no