'ALVIN!' Chipmunks, David Seville Are Back
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 matador might challenge a charging bull. Almost 50 years later, the Chipmunks - Alvin and his brothers Simon and Theodore - are still singing - voiced now by Bagdasarian's son and his son's wife, Janice Karman. With the release this week of the DVD of 1987's feature film, "The Chipmunk Adventure," Bagdasarian and Karman are also at work on a script for a new movie they hope will be ready in time to mark the Chipmunks' 50th birthday.
There's also something about those voices, created by recording Bagdasarian's and Karman's voices on analog tape, then speeding it up. They tried switching to digital recording in recent years, Bagdasarian said, but it just didn't sound the same. ;D
Gotta love PROGRESS :-\
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 matador might challenge a charging bull. Almost 50 years later, the Chipmunks - Alvin and his brothers Simon and Theodore - are still singing - voiced now by Bagdasarian's son and his son's wife, Janice Karman. With the release this week of the DVD of 1987's feature film, "The Chipmunk Adventure," Bagdasarian and Karman are also at work on a script for a new movie they hope will be ready in time to mark the Chipmunks' 50th birthday.
There's also something about those voices, created by recording Bagdasarian's and Karman's voices on analog tape, then speeding it up. They tried switching to digital recording in recent years, Bagdasarian said, but it just didn't sound the same. ;D
Gotta love PROGRESS :-\