Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly 65 years ago, Ross Bagdasarian‘s “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” — a novelty song featuring weird, ...

The chase was on, as it had been for years. After the tale of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was put to music and sold in a frenzy in 1949, each yuletide brought a bumper crop of sonic delights (or ...

In the years since an aspiring small-time actor named Ross Bagdasarian bought a variable-speed tape recorder and sang “The Chipmunk Song” into its embedded microphone in 1958, his mischief-making ...

Ross? Bagdasarian's quirky 1958 single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)," became a singular sensation, as six decades later, his under-the-radar collaborators are revealed. By Stephen Cox ...

Even before Thanksgiving, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Brenda Lee were reborn for the holiday season, with classic songs of theirs — "White Christmas," "The Christmas Song," "Rockin' Around the ...

In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian Sr. used the last $200 he had to purchase a state-of-the-art tape recorder and crafted the blend of sped-up vocals/standard-paced music for his novelty hit “Witch Doctor.” ...

Carey, known to many as the Queen of Christmas, told PEOPLE why she even loves sad Christmas songs Kevin Mazur/Getty Images All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is Alvin and the Chipmunks! The "All I ...

Before Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" dominated the charts since its release in 1994, this holiday classic was the star of the show. Seville, whose real name was Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Nearly six decades after the release of musician-producer Ross Bagdasarian Sr.’s novelty record “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late),” 2015 might well be considered the year of the Chipmunks, ...

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

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The chase was on, as it had been for years. After the tale of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was put to music and sold in a frenzy in 1949, each yuletide brought a bumper crop of sonic delights (or ...