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 ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks is a running joke that's lasted fifty years. It began as a novelty record featuring witch doctors in the 1950s (speeding up vocals to chipmunk squeakiness) and branched out ...

Six decades is a long time in the life of a chipmunk. Alvin and his brothers started life as disembodied voices on a novelty record in 1958, and first appeared in animated form in the 1961 primetime ...

20th Century Fox and New Regency have released a trailer for the fourth film in the Alvin and the Chipmunks CGI theatrical franchise: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, directed by Walt Becker, ...

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 ...

Forty-eight years ago, songwriter Ross Bagdasarian was taking a drive through California’s Yosemite National Park when a chipmunk scampered out in front of his car and stared him down in the way 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 ...

If you want to get up close and personal with a few of your favorite chipmunks, the Blumenthal Performing Arts in Charlotte has you covered. Alvin and his brothers, Simon and Theodore, will be making ...

The late Looney Tunes maestro Chuck Jones had an existential rule about cartoon animals: They could walk upright, talk a blue streak and even have a Flatbush accent, so long as they were fundamentally ...

At an Alvin and the Chipmunks concert, every seat is a bad seat. “Alvin and the Chipmunks” turns its titular rodents into the hottest helium-voice boy band since the Backstreet Boys. But the ...