(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE CHIPMUNK ... t know. Alvin, you know, who was always disrupting these songs - he's inattentive. He's theatrical. I could relate. INSKEEP: (Impersonating Dave Seville ...

K.A. Why It’s a Gift: Written by Ross Bagdasarian (a.k.a. Seville) for his high-pitched cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks, this amusing and still fairly tender Grammy-winning novelty was the ...

The Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon presents Alvin Seville, who stands out in his red shirt. Alvin Seville is passionate about rock and roll music and is also the leader of the Chipmunk trio, which ...

In it, Seville coaxes a holiday ditty from his childlike chipmunk trio of Alvin, Simon and Theodore ... the past four decades’ worth of albums, cartoon series and feature films.

which is unusual for most cartoon characters,” says Ross Bagdasarian Jr., whose father — the creator of Alvin, Theodore, Simon and their long-suffering host, David Seville — died in 1972.

Alvin and the Chipmunks ... Through the Decades’ and the drug abuse-prevention special ‘Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue’ in 1990. In ‘The Chipmunk Adventure,’ when Dave Seville goes to Europe, the ...

What is it about animated cartoons that makes so many ... and dancing rodent stars. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore Seville are chipmunk brothers with their own distinct personalities: rascally Alvin ...