With the exception of 1988's " Born to Rock ", the discography of The Chipettes consists of featured appearances on Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings.

All Chipmunk activity ceased until 1979, when Ross Jr began releasing Chipmunks recordings.

* The song has also been covered in recordings by Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Blues Image, Bobby Darin, Trini Lopez, Nashville Teens ( 1964 ), Nana Mouskouri, The Sandpipers, Selena, Leon Thomas III ( for the soundtrack for August Rush ), Dusty Springfield, The Ventures, Clay Walker, Wyclef Jean, Johnny Rivers and Deer Tick.

During the 1950s, Keep provided the synchronization process that allowed Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. to combine his speed-doubled voice technique with full orchestration on " Witch Doctor " and the series of Chipmunks recordings.

During this time, such novelty recordings as " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie ) and the fictional music group " The Chipmunks " were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time (" The Chipmunk Song " was a # 1 hit single in 1958 ).

Novelty recordings like " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie ) and the fictional music group " The Chipmunks " were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time.

The term virtual band was popularised with Gorillaz in 2000 ; however, the concept of the virtual band was first demonstrated by Alvin and the Chipmunks in 1959, when their creator, Ross Bagdasarian, accelerated recordings of his own voice to achieve the ' chipmunk voice '.

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.

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.

Nothing makes any reference to chipmunks, but the song is sometimes included on Chipmunk compilations, as if the Chipmunks had provided the voice of the Witch Doctor.

One " documentary " episode spoofed John Lennon's 1966 infamous comment that The Beatles had become " more popular than Jesus ", by recalling how the Chipmunks had fallen in popularity after Alvin boasted they were " bigger than Mickey Mouse !".

In 1987, during the fifth season of the show on television, the Chipmunks had their first animated feature film, The Chipmunk Adventure, directed by Janice Karman and Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., and released to theaters by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.

In the 1988 – 89 season, the show switched production companies to DIC Entertainment, by which time the Chipmunks had truly become anthropomorphized.

The girls tried to label their band as the " Chipmunks ," unaware of the fact that the name had already been taken, but this angered Alvin, Simon, and Theodore and started conflict against the two groups and led to a bet that nearly resulted in the girls winning permission to title their group as the Chipmunks until misled audiences brought the trio to renaming the band as " the Chipettes.

After the arguments over band names had ended, the Chipmunks befriended the three girls, who were allowed to come and live in a feminine tree house in Dave Seville's backyard.

Chubby Checker had a minor novelty hit in the summer of 1959 called " The Class ", which featured Checker doing comic imitations of singers Fats Domino, The Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole and the Chipmunks.

It was the first to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, although a series with a similar concept The Nutty Squirrels Present had aired a year earlier.

The Nutty Squirrels were a scat singing virtual band, formed in imitation of The Chipmunks, that had a Top 40 hit in late 1959 with the song " Uh-Oh ".

Clyde had one of the four segments, and the Chipmunks starred in the other three ( two of which were musical segments ).

* Crashcup later had a special guest spot in the modern Alvin and the Chipmunks 1990 episode " Back to Our Future ," in which he showed up in the time of the new show with a time machine and brought the modern Chipmunks back to his time, where they temporarily switched places with the Alvin Show Chipmunks.

The Chipmunk prototype first flew on 22 May 1946 in Toronto and had a total production run of 158 Chipmunks for RCAF use while de Havilland ( UK ) produced 740 airplanes for training at various RAF and University Air Squadrons during the late 1940s and into the 1950s.

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.

She often babysits the Chipmunks while Dave is away, much to Alvin's dismay. In this film, however, she does not appear to have adopted the Chipettes yet, tho she became the guardian of the Chipettes in the TV episode " Help wanted: Mommy " when the Chipettes were discovered to be orphans who had raised themselves.

While the term had not been coined at the time, Alvin and the Chipmunks were the first virtual band to appear.

After the creature had not returned, he goes to the Chipmunks ' house and kidnaps Alvin.

Bauza had a cameo role as " Digger the Nascar Gopher " in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel.

Since then, she has had supporting roles in a series of films including Role Models, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Space Chimps, The Rocker, The Hammer, Another Cinderella Story, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Spring Breakdown.

Although Pete is often typecast as a villain, he has shown great versatility within the role, playing everything from a hardened criminal ( The Dognapper, The Lone Chipmunks ) to a legitimate authority figure ( Moving Day, Donald Gets Drafted, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip ), and from a menacing trouble maker ( Building a Building, Trombone Trouble ) to a victim of mischief himself ( Timber ).

The song was often misattributed to The Chipmunks for its processed high-pitched chorus:

* January 27-Ross Bagdasarian ( aka David Seville ), of The Chipmunks ( d. 1972 )

** Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for " The Chipmunk Song ", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as " David Seville and the Chipmunks "

** Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for " The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late )" performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as " David Seville and the Chipmunks "

** Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for " The Chipmunk Song ", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as " David Seville and the Chipmunks "

** Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as " David Seville and the Chipmunks "

** David Hassinger ( engineer ) for The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles performed by The Chipmunks

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

In reality, " David Seville " was Bagdasarian's stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their original record label.

He is also the voice of Underdog in Underdog and plays David " Dave " Seville in the films Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked '

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.

He also became the voice for David Seville and the Chipmunks, except for those performed by Ross Jr .' s wife, Janice Karman, such as Theodore and all of The Chipettes.

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

In addition to the main format of chart listings for each artist in alphabetical order, this official recognition from Billboard put Dickie Goodman in the Top Artists Category section of the book ; Displaying a photo of Dickie Goodman as # 1 at the top of a list of other famous artists such as Ray Stevens, Weird Al Yankovic and David Seville / Chipmunks.

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 .).

In the 2007 live-action / animated movie Alvin and the Chipmunks during the credits Ian Hawke ( David Cross ) is trying to get three squirrels to sing.

From 1984 to the present he has used the name Alvin Chipmunk as a solo recording pseudonym, as many Chipmunk albums made during this time listed the band ’ s name as Alvin and the Chipmunks, as opposed to Ross Sr .’ s albums, in which the default group name was David Seville and the Chipmunks.

In 2007, Bagdasarian produced the movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks, based on the cartoon and featuring computer-animated Chipmunks and a live-action David Seville, portrayed by Jason Lee.