Length 32:10 Release date 1 January 1962 Label BNF Collection | Artist Alvin and the Chipmunks Producer Ross Bagdasarian Sr. Genre Children's music | |
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Released January 1, 1962 (1962-01-01) The Chipmunk Songbook
(1962) Christmas with The Chipmunks, Vol. 2
(1963) Songs The Chipmunk Song, Almost Good Alvin and the Chipmunks albums Sing Again with The Chipmunks, Let's All Sing with The Chip, Around the World with The Chip, The Chipmunks See Doct, The Very Best of The Chipmunks | ||
The Chipmunk Songbook is an album by Alvin and the Chipmunks with David Seville. It was released in January 1, 1962 by Liberty Records.
Contents
In 1986, a two-record compilation album was released by Capitol-EMI America, also titled The Chipmunk Songbook, and featuring an entirely different track listing, consisting of songs taken from various albums from the 1960s.
Side one
- "The Band Played On" (John F. Palmer, Charles B. Ward)
- "Buffalo Gals" (John Hodges, arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) {featuring June Foray}
- "The Alvin Twist" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
- "Funiculì, Funiculà" (Luigi Denza, Edward Oxenford)
- "My Wild Irish Rose" (Chauncey Olcott)
- "Down in the Valley" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
- "Git Along Little Dogies" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
Side two
- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (Jane Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- "On Top of Old Smoky" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) {featuring June Foray}
- "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, Alfred Lee)
- "Strolling Through The Park One Day" (Ed Haley)
- "Polly Wolly Doodle" (Dan Emmett)
- "Bicycle Built for Two" (Harry Dacre) {featuring June Foray}
- "America the Beautiful" (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward)
Virtually all of the songs were also used on The Alvin Show.
References
The Chipmunk Songbook Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA