(Spoiler: the track's revenue can buy Alvin ... song featuring weird, high-pitched voices augmented in a recording studio — kicked off what would become the multimillion-dollar Alvin and the ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks ... to come up with a hit song (via BusinessInsider). He spent the last of his money making "Witch ...

Bagdasarian's quirky 1958 single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don ... to finally settle on chipmunks, which he named after Liberty Records executives Alvin Bennett, Simon Waronker and Theodore ...

From humble beginnings in a Christmas song to a billion-dollar global franchise, Alvin and the Chipmunks have come a long way. Ross Bagdasarian Sr. was struggling to make a hit song when he spent ...

“Alvin’s Harmonica,” which reached No. 3. More hit records followed, and the Chipmunks jumped to TV for a few seasons in the early 1960s. Decades later, the song remains in perennial ...

I’ve Never Heard Of Alvin And The Chipmunks ... up a tape recorder so the chorus of his song ‘Witch Doctor’ sounded like it was being sung by chipmunks. He then turned that passing ...

While the soundtrack to 2007’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks” featured mostly new songs created by Dee specifically for the movie and versions of songs such as “Witch Doctor” that were ...

For more than 60 years, the dulcet, high-speed tones of Alvin ... each of the roles as the Chipmunks, Bagdasarian scored a holiday smash with “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late ...

After 60 years, Alvin and the Chipmunks are, as their catchy TV theme song perpetually promises, coming on stronger than ever before. Late last year, the harmonizing rodents with a penchant for ...

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring the Grammy-winning animated singing group Alvin and ... The Chipmunks made their debut with the 1958 novelty Christmas song, "The Chipmunk Song ...