Can’t say I have vivid childhood memories of Ross Bagdasarian Sr.’s “The Alvin Show.” But what I do vaguely recall is pleasant enough, as long as those helium chipmunk harmonies were limited to one ...

chipmunkson16speed Alvin and the Chipmunks have assaulted our eardrums with squeaky helium voices since 1958, when David Seville (the stage name for Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) released ”Witch Doctor,” ...

Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving ...

The cartoon band isn’t a new concept. It dates back to at least the late 1950s, when Fresno’s Ross Bagdasarian Sr. — better known by the stage name David Seville — created the furry troubadours Alvin ...

It started out as a clever-enough idea. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, a Broadway actor who’d had a pretty good role as a pianist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, started experimenting ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960 when he jotted off a ...

Are singing chipmunks really so different from Britney Spears? In "Alvin and the Chipmunks," our furry little singing friends have been turned into something like tiny Justin Timberlakes. They use ...

At 50, Alvin and the Chipmunks have never been cuter - or bigger. John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960 when he jotted off a memo to a songwriter. "I'm glad to know that I have at least ...