Bagdasarian Productions films have also aired on Disney Channel, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Chipmunk Adventure, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, Spirited Away and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

In 1991, Bagdasarian Productions acquired the production company offices and holdings from Arden, and reopened the record label Jet Records under the new name Chipmunk Records.

In 2005, Bagdasarian Productions struck a deal with Paramount Home Video to distribute their latest direct-to-video release, Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks on DVD.

* Chipmunks. com, Bagdasarian Productions ' official site

However, the rights to the series itself are owned by Bagdasarian Productions, who have licensed DVD distribution to Paramount Pictures.

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In 1991, Bagdasarian Productions acquired the production company offices and holdings from Arden, and reopened the label under the new name Chipmunk Records.

He heads Bagdasarian Productions with his singer-manager wife Janice Karman.

She is the co-owner of Bagdasarian Productions with her husband Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.

The focus of Bagdasarian Productions company is on creating albums, cartoons, and other products based on the Alvin and the Chipmunks characters, who were created by Bagdasarian's father Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.

Fortunately for Bagdasarian Productions, the box-office failure of Disney's The Black Cauldron in 1985 had led to the layoff of a number of Disney animators, whom Bagdasarian promptly hired to work on his film.

The film was produced by Bagdasarian Productions, and distributed to movie theatres by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for a novelty record in 1958.

In this film, when Dave ( Ross Bagdasarian, Jr .) goes out of town, he leaves the young Chipmunks and the Chipettes in the care of Lalu ( Janice Karman ), a friend who is happy to have six preschoolers stay with her.

Bagdasarian is the creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Bagdasarian played minor roles in films, the best known of which is his appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery Rear Window.

A title card shown in the middle of the end credits reads " This film is dedicated to Ross Bagdasarian Sr., who was crazy enough to invent three singing chipmunks nearly fifty years ago ".

It is owned and operated by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman.

Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. ( born Ross Dickran Bagdasarian ; May 6, 1949 ) is an American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist and the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.

* Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. as David " Dave " Seville, the adoptive father of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, Dave is a songwriter who has his hands full keeping track of Alvin's doings.

Pinky and Perky spoke and sang in high-pitched voices created by re-playing original voice recordings at twice the original recorded speed ; the vocals were sung by Mike Sammes while the backing track was played at half normal speed ( Sammes did the same job for Ken Dodd's Diddymen, as Ross Bagdasarian did for the original Chipmunks in the early 1960s )-hence the expression " Pinky and Perky speed ", when an LP record is played at 45 rpm or 78 rpm instead of the correct 33⅓ rpm.

* 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. ( David Seville ), American actor ( b. 1919 )

* 1949 – Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., American voice actor and cartoonist

* January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian, American musician and actor ( Alvin and the Chipmunks ) ( d. 1972 )

* January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American record producer ( Alvin and the Chipmunks ) ( b. 1919 )

Rostom Sipan " Ross " Bagdasarian ( January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972 ) was an American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

* Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. – ( born 1949 ) American continues work of his father for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The song was written by Ross Bagdasarian and his cousin, noted Armenian American writer William Saroyan in the summer of 1939 ; however, the song did not become a hit until the release of Clooney's recording.

* Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., creator of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise, outright refused to utilize a laugh track when production began on The Alvin Show ( CBS, 1961 – 62 ) in 1961.

She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.

Bagdasarian did record a " Chipmunks " version of " Witch Doctor ", which appeared on the second Chipmunks album, Sing Again with The Chipmunks, in 1960.

As David Seville, Bagdasarian had a number-one hit in the summer of 1958 with " Witch Doctor " which was his first experiment with speeding an audio track to get a distinctive, squeaky, high-pitched voice.

Years later, his son Ross, Jr. picked up on a disc jockey's joke and produced the hit Chipmunk Punk album in 1980, which spurred new interest for a brand new animated series with an updated look to The Chipmunks and David Seville ( now voiced by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr .).

It was founded in 1961 as Bagdasarian Film Corporation, which was owned and founded by the late Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. ( also known as David Seville ).

After his father's untimely death in 1972 ( Ross Sr. was found dead of a heart attack ), Bagdasarian succeeded him as the main owner of the Chipmunks productions, which had fallen into obscurity after significant success between 1958 and the late 1960s.

I wasn ’ t willing to be one of those people .” In the mid-90s, Bagdasarian bought the Chipmunk rights from brother Adam and a sister ( a stay-at-home mother ), to take complete control.

Bagdasarian licensed the rights to the Chipmunk characters to Universal Pictures in 1996, resulting in a string of Universal-produced direct-to-video films.

* January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, composer, creator of The Alvin Show

Bagdasarian, Jr. and Karman continue to perform the singing voices for Alvin, Theodore and the Chipettes, but Steve Vining does Simon's singing voice.

After the death of Ross Bagdasarian in 1972 from a heart attack, the Chipmunks ' careers stalled until NBC showed interest in the original show ( the network carried Saturday morning reruns of The Alvin Show as a midseason replacement in 1979 ) and the following year, Excelsior Records released a new album of contemporary songs performed by the Chipmunks.

Bagdasarian named the three Chipmunk characters after record executives: Simon Waronker, Ted Keep ( Theodore ), and Alvin Bennett.

( The spoken coda, when played slowly, reveals Bagdasarian enacting the roles of Theodore, Simon, and Alvin.

Following his hit records, Bagdasarian provided the voice for the David Seville and Alvin in the Chipmunks ' short-lived 1961-62 animated television series The Alvin Show.

* Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. – ( 1919 – 1972, better known as " David Seville ") creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The title song for was cowritten by Mickey Rooney and Ross Bagdasarian, the creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

* Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Charles A. Nichols, Rowby Goren, Janis Diamond, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser ( Alvin and the Chipmunks )

* Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Janice Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr. ( Alvin and the Chipmunks )

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