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Sing Again with The Chipmunks

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Released
  
1960

Length
  
24:41

Producer
  
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Genre
  
Children's music

Recorded
  
June–October 1959

Release date
  
1960

Label
  
Liberty

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Sing Again with The Chipmunks (1960)
  
Around the World with The Chipmunks (1960)

Artists
  
Alvin and the Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Alvin and the Chipmunks albums
  
The Chipmunk Songbook, Let's All Sing with The Chip, Around the World with The Chip, Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky, Chipmunks à Go‑Go

Sing Again with The Chipmunks is The Chipmunks' second album, released by Liberty Records in January 1960. The album follows the same format as their first album, and contains the group's fifth and sixth singles—"Alvin's Orchestra" and "Coming 'Round the Mountain". Since its initial release, Sing Again with The Chipmunks has appeared twice on CD; both releases utilized the revised 1961 cover artwork, minus the song lyrics printed on the original back cover.

Contents

Commercial performance

Sing Again with The Chipmunks was expected to do as well as Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks which peaked at #4 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart. Instead, it peaked at #31.

Artwork

The original issue of the album depicted three realistic looking chipmunks on the cover sharing space with a photo of David Seville. When the album was reissued one year later, a new cover was substituted, that of an Alvin Show animation cel setup reenacting the poses the original chipmunks and Seville made.

Side one

  1. "Sing Again with the Chipmunks" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)– 0:53
  2. "Coming 'Round the Mountain" (Traditional) – 2:14*
  3. "Home on the Range" (Brewster Higley and Daniel Kelley) – 2:53*
  4. "I Wish I Had a Horse" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Mark McIntyre) – 2:04*
  5. "Swanee River" (Stephen Foster) – 1:49*
  6. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore) – 1:35*

Side two

  1. "Sing a Goofy Song" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 2:32*
  2. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Harry Thacker Burleigh) – 2:02*
  3. "Witch Doctor" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) — ("group" version) – 2:04*
  4. "Working on the Railroad" (Bill Balsham, var. Benny Goodman) – 1:56*
  5. "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" (traditional, Chipmunks version by E.O. Lyte and Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 1:38*
  6. "Alvin’s Orchestra" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 3:01*

* - later adapted as a musical segment for The Alvin Show

Source: Answers.com CD Universe

Personnel

  • David Seville – keyboards, conduction and commentary
  • Alvin Chipmunk – lead vocals, guitars, and harmonica
  • Simon Chipmunk – guitars, bass and background vocals
  • Theodore Chipmunk – drums and background vocals

    • Additional personnel

  • Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra – strings and horns on "Alvin's Orchestra"

    • Production

  • Ross Bagdasarian – Producer
  • Ted Keep – Engineer
  • Pate/Francis & Assoc. – cover design and actual artwork – [original pressing]
  • Studio Five – animation artwork – [reissue pressing]

    • Songs

    1Sing Again With the Chipmunks0:53
    2Coming 'round the Mountain2:14
    3Home on the Range2:53

    References

    Sing Again with The Chipmunks Wikipedia
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