That fall, he released "The Chipmunk Song ... Chipmunk Christmas" was the franchise's first television special and aired in 1981. This was followed by the debut of "Alvin and the Chipmunks ...

That fall, he released "The Chipmunk Song ... Chipmunk Christmas" was the franchise's first television special and aired in 1981. This was followed by the debut of "Alvin and the Chipmunks ...

From there, he came up with the idea of the Chipmunks ... And so: “The Chipmunk Song,” the song where the personalities of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore all begin to assert themselves.

1 in 2023. That gave the 80-year-old legend just the third-holiday single ever to jingle all the way to the top, following Alvin and the Chipmunks’ “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be ...

1958: Bing Crosby, "White Christmas", 1942 [Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #1] The Chipmunks ... "Merry Christmas, Darling ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE CHIPMUNK SONG (CHRISTMAS DON'T BE LATE)") ROSS BAGDASARIAN: (As Dave) All right, you chipmunks. Ready to sing your song? (As Alvin) I'd say we are. (As Theodore ...