Alvin & a Chipmunks come the fictional musical group, created by Ross Bagdasarian. A class action consists of triad singing chipmunks—Alvin, Simon, and Theodore—world health organization come "managed" by their mortal "dad" & leader, David "Dave" Seville. Actually, "David Seville" was Ross Bagdasarian's stage title.

Fallowing number one existence brought to life within Bagdasarian's 1950s novelty recordings under the title David Seville & a Chipmunks, a characters were an unprecedented profits, & a cantabile Chipmunks & their manager tend life within many animated cartoon series and motion pictures. These come notable that a characters are today perceived when cartoon characters that likewise freed a bit of accompanying music, which is the opposite of their early being.

A voices of a class action were tons performed by Bagdasarian, world health organization sped higher a playback to produce the virtually all-distinctive higher pitched screaky voices. This run wasn't totally freshly; Bagdasarian experienced likewise utilized it for the last novelty song plan "The Witch Doctor," however it was & then unusual and swell executed it earned a trio deuce Grammy Awards for engineering. Although a characters were invented, it did release an extended line of "real" albums & singles, sustaining "The Chipmunk Song" becoming the #1 hit individual in the United States. Fallowing his dying within 1972, the voices of the Chipmunks were afterward recorded by his boy, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., and his wife, Janice Karman, in all future incarnations to date. A Chipmunks themselves come known as fallowing a executives of their original record label, Liberty Records: Alvin Bennett (the president), Theodore Keep (a principal engineer), & Simon Waronker (a founder & creator).

History
"The Chipmunk Song"
Alvaround & the Chipmunks foremost appeared on the scene around a novelty record freed in 1958 by Ross Bagdasarian. A song, known either when just "The Chipmunk Song" or even "Christmas Don't Be Late" featured a cantabile skills of the chipmunk trio. A novelty record was super successful, selling supplementary than Four million copies inside Septenary weeks, & it launched a careers of its chipmunk stars. It was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from December 27, 1958 to January 19, 1959. It besides earned trio Grammy Awards & the nomination for Record of the Year.

Imitations
When a series was existence brace oneself for broadcast, an imitation, a Nutty Squirrels, beat them to the market, however was less successful, despite catchy scat singing.

The Alvin Show

A foremost television series to feature a characters was A Alvin Indicate. Running off from either 1961 to 1962, and was one of the little total of alive series to become shown inside prime time, on CBS. Alas, it was non immediately successful & was cancelled when a single year, simply to call for fresh life around syndication.

Additionally to Alvin cartoons, a series as well featured Clyde Crashcup and his sidekick Leonardo. Victims characters did does'nt feature conspicuously in any of the late series. Crashcup manufactured one cameo appearance around an episode of Alvin & a Chipmunks.

A 1st television series was by Format Films for Bagdasarian Film Corporation. Although a series was broadcast witharound black & white, it was produced & late re-redo in color. Twenty-26 episodes every were produced of the Alvin & a Chipmunks & Clyde Crashcup segments, along using fifty-2 musical segments.

A Chipmunk Christmas
Fallowing a dying of Ross Bagdasarian inside 1972, the Chipmunks' careers stalled until NBC showed interest in the original show & freed the recently album of contemporary songs performed per Chipmunks. A recently album featured a late Ross's boy, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., doing a voices of the characters. That album & a continued reruns of the series proved to become popular plenty to warrant fresh television production, & around 1981, the Chipmunks & David Seville returned to television in the Christmas special A Chipmunk Christmas, by Chuck Jones, which was number one broadcast in NBC in December 14 of that year.

Alvin and the Chipmunks
Inside 1983, the 2nd cartoon series, by Ruby-Spears, was released. Highborn just Alvin & a Chipmunks, a outline of a indicate closely paralleled the original Alvin Indicate. A indicate lasted hexad production seasons, until 1991. In a third year, the indicate introduced The Chipettes, three female versions of a Chipmunks by having their have human being counterpart, the myopic Mrs. Miller. Numbers of fans assume this a moment once a indicate jumped the shark. Fallowing 1987, the indicate was renamed just The Chipmunks to show that there were currently ii groups of the children.

Within 1987, during a fifth year of a indicate in television, the Chipmunks got their 1st (& til now, simply) alive feature, The Chipmunk Adventure, directed by Janice Karman and released to theatres by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. the film featured a Chipmunks & a Chipettes within a contest traveling about the world. further than improved production values, a moving-picture show was more of a long & enhanced episode of the series.

For a sixth & final year, the indicate switched production corporations (to DiC Entertainment) and switched titles over again: Chipmunks Return a Picture. Apiece episode in that year was the spoof of a Hollywood film, such as Back to the Future, King Kong, and others. Inside extra, many television specials featuring a characters were too freed. At a guide of a sixth year, the indicate was cancelled once more.

Within 1990, a docudrama was produced all about a indicate entitled Alvin & a Chipmunks/Five Decades by owning a Chipmunks. In this month, a chipmunks as well team by using more contemporary cartoons (like Bugs Bunny, Garfield, etc.) for the drug abuse-prevention favorite Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

Direct-to-video Alvin
Around 1996, the rights to the characters were purchased by Universal Pictures. This resulted in The Chipmunks' 1999 reappearance in the form of the direct-to-video film Alvin & a Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein. the picture show was successful plenty to spark interest inside a sequel, & around 2000, Alvin and a Chipmunks Meet a Lycanthrope appeared. Each motion picture featured a "original" cast of a 2nd series reprising their roles & the tone of the moving picture may be similar to the series. These film titles reflect earliest horror pasquinade by Abbott and Costello.

Alvin's future
Within 2000, Bagdasarian Productions sued Universal Pictures for breach of contract, in order to recover monentary damage settlements & to regain control of a Alvin & the Chipmunks characters. Whenever that suit is non successful, a contract may expire inside 2006. Until that is resolved, there might probably become there is there are no major activity by using a franchise & no farther television picture show produced.

The live-action feature-length movie is within development by 20th Century Fox, featuring computer-animated Chipmunks and the live-action David Seville. These are scheduled to exist as freed around theatres around 2006.

Recording technique
A Chipmunks' voices were recorded by owning the tape running off at half a normal speed, which intended that while played back at normal speed it would healthy twice when convenient & a to the full octave higher in pitch. Now a equivalent result may be created digitally. A term "chipmunk voiced" has entered a Our contries vernacular to describe any artificially high-high voice.

A system was often imitated within comedy records, notably "The Ying Tong Song" by The Goons, "Transistor Radio" by Benny Hill, "The Laughing Gnome" by David Bowie, and in many tracks a Joe Meek and the Blue Men album "I Hear A New World". A system too appears inside the instumental break in Bobby Lewis' 1961 US #1 hit ''Tossin' and Turnin'. It was likewise utilized extensively in the British puppet show Pinky and Perky''.

Prince has also utilized a system for his "Camille" alter ego.

Nonetheless, the vocal system is non universally generated by a recording system. Occasionally fans of the band Gamma Ray (band) have described the singer Kai Hansen's falsetto when "chipmunk-like" on the album "No World Order".

Discography

Albums
1959: ''Let's A lot Sing by owning a Chipmunks 1960: Sing Once more sustaining a Chipmunks 1961: Around a World by having the Chipmunks 1961: A Alvin Show 1962: Christmas With the Chipmunks, Vol. 1 1962: A Chipmunks Songbook 1963: Christmas Using a Chipmunks, Vol. 2 1964: A Chipmunks Sing a Beatles Hits 1965: the Chipmunks a Last-Go 1965: A Chipmunks Sing by owning Children 1965: Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious 1968: A Chipmunks Watch Doctor Dolittle 1969: A Chipmunks Return a Movies 1980: Chipmunk Punk 1981: The Chipmunk Christmas 1981: Urban Chipmunk 1982: Chipmunk Rock 1984: Alvin & a Chipmunks 1987: A Chipmunk Adventure 1990: Rockin' Through the Decades 1992: Chipmunks inside Online Places 1992: Greatest Hits 1993: Alvin's Christmas Carol 1993: Sing-Alongs 1994: On this button's Seeking at Us! 1995: Alvin's Daydreams 1995: Chipmunk Celebration 1995: Easter Chipmunk 1995: When You Wish upon the Chipmunk 1995: The Super Merry Chipmunk 1995: Super Better of Chipmunks 1996: Club Chipmunk: A Dance Mixes 1996: Christmas by using 2 1998: The A-Files: Alien Songs 1999: Alvin & the Chipmunks Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years 2003: Merry Christmas from either a Chipmunks 2004: Little Alvin & a Mini-Munks''

Singles
1958: "The Chipmunk Song" (United states #1) 1959: "Alvin's Harmonica" 1960: "Ragtime Cowboy" 1960: "Alvin' Orchestra" 1960: "Alvin for President" 1960: "America the Beautiful" 1960: "Rudolph, the Red-Reindeer" 1962: "The Alvin Twist" 1963: "Alvin's All Star Chipmunk Band" 1963: "Eefin' Alvin" 1963: "The Night Before Christmas" 1964: "All My Lovin'" 1965: "Do-re-mi" 1965: "I'm Henry VIII" 1968: In case We Can Talk to the Animals" 1968: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" 1992: "Aching Breaky Heart"

Awards and nominations

1959, won three Grammy Awards for Best Album for Children, Best Comedy Performance, and Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical for the song "The Chipmunk Song." (Was also nominated for Record of the Year, but did not win.) 1960, won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical for the song "Alvin's Harmonica." 1961, won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for the album ''Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks. (It was also nominated for Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical.) The song "Alvin for President" was also nominated for both Best Comedy Performance - Musical and Best Engineered Record - Novelty, making two nominations in the latter category.) 1962, was nominated again for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Record - Novelty for the television tie-in album The Alvin Show. 1963, was nominated again for Grammy Awards for both Best Album for Children and Best Engineered Record - Novelty for the album The Chipmunk Songbook. 1966, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for the album Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious. 1985, was nominated for a Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Animated Program (Daylight)." 1987, the second television series was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the category "Exceptional Family Animation Series or even Specials." 1987, was nominated for a Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Animated Program (Day)." 1988, was nominated for a Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Animated Program (Daylight)." 1988, was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the category "Best Motion Picture - Animation" for the movie The Chipmunk Adventure. 2000, won the Golden Reel Award in the category "Best Healthy Editing - Direct to Streaming - Healthy Editorial" for the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein''.

In total: five Grammy Awards and a Golden Reel Award.