Later versions of the song insert an interjection during a pause in the chorus (from the audience during live performances or from a guest separate from the lead singer): "Alice!
On the American Top 40 broadcast of 26 May 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Chapman stated that his source of inspiration for "Living Next Door to Alice" was "Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook.
[30] The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart in October 1995, selling almost half a million copies.
Peters, while visiting a bar called Gompie in Nijmegen, heard "Living Next Door to Alice" by Smokie.
[43] Actor Alan Fletcher, who plays doctor Karl Kennedy in the soap opera Neighbours, took up the song as "Who the Fuck Is Susan?"
[citation needed] Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "In the finest tradition of Dutch compatriots Stars On 45, Gompie perform a very accurate imitation of Smokie's 1976 Top Five hit, Living Next Door To Alice.
Concurrent with Smokie's American success with the song, country music singer Johnny Carver released his own version of "Living Next Door to Alice" in 1977.
[74] Ex-Smokie vocalist Chris Norman included his solo cover of the song on his 2000 studio album Full Circle.
[75] Danish singer Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen covered the song as "Alice" on his 1977 solo debut Din Sang.
[76] In 1981, South Korean band Oxen 80 (옥슨80) recorded cover of the song with title "In a Lonely Night" (그대 떠난 이 밤에).
In Finnish, the song was recorded in 1977 by Kari Tapio, with the title "Viisitoista kesää" ("Fifteen Summers").
"Storholt, Stensen, Stenshjemmet, Sjøbrend åsså'n Hjallis" deals with the famous Norwegian speed skating team known as The Four Aces.
[81] In Czechoslovakia, the song was released on 21 February 1973 under the title "Alenka v říši divů" ("Alice in Wonderland"), performed by Karel Zich.
[84] In former Yugoslavia, Toni Montano made a song based on the original tune, titled "10 godina" ("10 Years").
interjection (thus, no profanity in the Russian version) and are about some company considering crashing at Alice's place, indeed answering to the ever repeated question in form of a long list of her virtues ("she is well dressed, she speaks beautifully, she is fluent in English and Hebrew" etc.).