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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’ve earned Emmys, Grammys, platinum albums, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But can Alvin and the Chipmunks now net their biggest prize yet: a $300 million paycheck? The franchise is ...

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 ...

Get the the reviews of "Sisters" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip." — -- Starring Jason Lee, Kimberly Wililams-Paisley and Josh Green Rated PG One-and-a-half out of five stars There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the early '90s, though, those kids had all become teenagers and the new generation of younger viewers had more viewing options ...