Alvin and the Chipmunks are having a grand remake. I saw the trailer and felt okay with it. But that really doesn’t remind me of why I fell for the original one. Let’s forget about the cool 3D high budget animation and see the original 1987 version of it:

That video was a part of The Chipmunks Adventure and I bet that old movie beat a hell of a more beat than the new one. Alvin and the Chipmunks is a five-time Grammy Award-winning animated music group, created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958.

Wikipedia said, the group consists of three singing animated chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable sweetheart. The trio is “managed” by their human “father” and confidant, David Seville.

In reality, David Seville was Bagdasarian’s stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their original record label, Liberty Records: Alvin Bennett (the president), Simon Waronker (the founder and owner), and Theodore Keep (the chief engineer).

I just love classics

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Posted in Cartoon
Written on Wed, 09 January 2008 at 11:17 pm
Tags: Alvin, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin Bennett, Arts, David Seville, Liberty Records, Ross Bagdasarian, Simon Waronker
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