Alvin and the Chipmunks

Subject: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:27 PM

Okay, I just was drafted to perform my favorite Xmas song at a little holiday get together some friends are having. Pickin' one is a challenge if you're not strictly Christian, but always loved the Chipmunk song...
the one where Alvin sings "Me I want a huuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllaaaa
hoop."

Love that Alvin. I wanna be Alvin. I want the MC to yell Alvin while I sing all kindsa mischief on Xmas.

So.......

anyone got the chords and words to this one?

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Peace
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:41 PM

(all right you Chipmunks! Ready to sing your song?
-I'll say we are!
-Yeah!
-Let's sing it now!
Okay, Simon?
-Okay!
Okay, Theodore?
-Okay!
Okay, Alvin? Alvin? ALVIN!
-OKAY!!!)

Christmas, Christmas time is near
Time for toys and time for cheer
We've been good, but we can't last
Hurry Christmas, hurry fast
Want a plane that loops the loop
Me, I want a hula hoop
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas, don't be late.

(Okay fellas get ready.
That was very good, Simon.
-Naturally.
Very good Theodore.
-Ahhh.
Ah, Alvin, you were a little flat, watch it.
Ah, Alvin. Alvin. ALVIN!
-OKAY.)

Want a plane that loops the loop
I still want a hula hoop
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas, don't be late.
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas, don't be late.

(Very good, boys
-Lets sing it again! Yeah, lets sing it again!
No, That's enough, lets not overdo it
-What do you mean overdo it?
-We want to sing it again!
Now wait a minute, boys
-Why can't we sing it again?
-[chipmunk chatter]
Alvin, cut that out..Theodore, just a minute.
Simon will you cut that out? Boys...)

from

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:UHXywKIeHwUJ:www.sweetslyrics.com/87494.Christmas%2520Songs%2520-%2520The%2520Chipmunk%2520Song.html+%22me+I+want+a+hula+hoop%22,+chords&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks (A Falsetto Values)
From: Severn
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:47 PM

I never knew David Seville, but I used to take his sister Barbara to the opera. Now, you've heard of HER haven't you?.....


Actually David Seville (real name Ross Bagdasarian), guardian/creator of the Chipmunks and their Spiritual Godfather, The Witch Doctor.....

Oooh, eeee, oooh ah, ah,
Ting, Tang, Walla Walla Bing-Bang......

(Yeah, THAT one!)

......managed to appear in one of my all-time favorite movies in a non-speaking part going under his real name. He was the piano player across the courtyard in Hitchcock's "Rear Window".










......What? You never heard of Barbara Bagdasarian?!?!?!?!

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Peace
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:50 PM

The title is "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLIG5wwC_oI

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 05:54 PM

gnu, they're playing you song!
G

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:04 PM

I am the lopsided chipmunk, G. Until Friday, I hope.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:19 PM

Here's the ORIGINAL. Thanks for the memories!**BG**

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Severn
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:21 PM

As opposed to the Fish Friar? I didn't know you cooked Fridays at the monestary, gnu!

If you're lopsighted, I'd hate to be your optometrist......

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:34 PM

I thought it had...'all I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth'?

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:38 PM

Breaded fried haddock, Sev. Like clockwork. And, it's deeeeelicious. Not just on Fridays.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:39 PM

Ross Bagdasarian was of Armenian descent, from Fresno. He, along with author William Saroyan and actor Mike Connors (born Krekor Ohanian)are three of that community's greater success stories. Armenians overcame a lot of discrimination early on to become a very thriving and successful part of the Fresno community. A coffee house I occasionally visited when living in the area in the late 1950's, the "Orange Ogre," was owned by another Armenian lady, local legend "Gussie" Gostanian.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: RiGGy
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 06:47 PM

Back in "the Season" in 1973 I was busking with my band in a fancy shopping district in Boston. I think we were outside Filene's.
Playing a metal ended Wheatstone, and my buddy Tommy Magee on an aluminum fiddle, two silver instruments surrounded by snowflakes.
We had the tips of our glove fingers clipped off to facilitate fingering.   We played an instrumental version of this Chipmunk's Christmas Don't be Late.
[ Really cool melody - doncha think ? - kind of Neopolitan cafe-esque ] Anyhoo, this woman walks by, and bam - she's bawling her eyes out !
She didn't know why, but just that melody had some magical emotional trigger for her. Primal memory of some childhood disappointment.
I like music because of that kinda power . . . Riggy

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Slag
Date: 20 Nov 07 - 08:55 PM

Guest TJ: I met Mike Connors in Bakersfield at Mason Jaussaud's when "Mannix" was in it's heyday. I guess he mistook me for someone he knew. He chatted a little with me and my family ( I was 18 or 19) and then he mosied off to the bar. I ran into him again at the new Hilton in Victorville a few years later when I was in the Air Force. A look of recognition crossed his face and then puzzlement. I explained and we had a laugh and a drink. Hmmm? That's the last time I saw him! Maybe I should start (or maybe NOT!) a name dropping thread.

Alvin, the Witch Doctor, the One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple People-Eater, The Martian Hop, Mr. Livingston, Little Egypt (the Coasters), the Haunted House, the Little Blue Man and many more, all great gag songs from the ever more distant past, were all lots of fun. Not to many fun-songs like those any more. Life has apparently become much more serious, Oh my.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: JJ
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 10:11 AM

Ross Bagdasarian was the cousin of William Saroyan; he appeared as the Newsboy in the original production of Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE in 1939.

At one point the Newsboy's rendition of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" is interrupted by a character's asking if he's Irish. "No. I'm Greek," says the kid.

Perhaps the cousins remembered this when they wrote "Come On-A My House," a huge hit for Rosemary Clooney in 1951. She described it as a song by two Armenians in an Italian dialect sung by an Irish girl.

It may be the biggest hit ever with lyrics by a Pulitzer Prize winner (although Saroyan refused the prize).

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 12:55 PM

Thanks. I am now ready to sing like Alvin ( I noticed putting my hand over my nose gives the suitable desired effect ) Maybe I should buy the Alvin t shirt too.
As always the mudcatters provide a lot of interesting info re the song: Didn't know these lyrics were related to a Pulitizer Prize winner. But I DID remember Purple People Eater.

Yes those songs were more fun, fun that was not forced, and comedy that was lighthearted and carefree.

Hmmm...no chords, but I guess I can figure them out myself.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: PoppaGator
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 01:37 PM

"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a much older Christmas novelty song than The Chipmunk Song. It dates back at least to the early fifties, when I heard it pretty regularly through at least one Holiday Season it as a very young child. The Chipmunks came later: I clearly remember their song as a brand-new item sometime when I was in school, probably late 50s or early 60s.

"Teeth" featured a sort of "specialty" vocal, too: not a speeded-up-tape-replay falsetto as in "Alvin," but an effort to create the sound of toothlessness, like young Ron Howard's performance in the movie "The Music Man." ("...Pfso I can wifsh you Mewwy Chrifphss-miphffs!")

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 02:03 PM

I remember that song too. I thought it was older than the fifiies tho.

Where does I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus fit in all this? Just in case I have to do an encore?

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: PoppaGator
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 02:34 PM

Yeah, Lefty, I'm not sure how old the song was when I first heard it. It might date back into the 40s or even earlier. All I know for sure is that it enjoyed a lot of radio airplay during my early childhood (born 1947), whether it was brand new at the time or already a Christmas "oldie."

I did some research on "I Saw Mommy..." a few years ago, when I was working as a shopping mall Santa and had begun playing the tune on my toy xylophone as a way to drum up business. I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure that it's yet another post-WWII phenomemon, from the time when the first baby boomers were babies (late 40s/early 50s).

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:39 PM

Wikipedia entry for All I Want for Christmas:

All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a Christmas song that was written by Donald Yetter Gardner. Gardner wrote the song in 1944 while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked the class what they wanted for Christmas, and noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing as they answered in a lisp. Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes. In a 1995 interview, Gardner said, "I was amazed at the way that silly little song was picked up by the whole country."

The song was originally recorded by Spike Jones and The City Slickers on December 6, 1948 (that version reached the top of the charts in early 1949). The song has also been recorded by numerous other singers and performers, including George Strait, Danny Kaye with The Andrews Sisters, The Platters, Nat King Cole, The Chipmunks, the Hampton String Quartet and the cast of Sesame Street.

Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song on his 2002 Christmas album Cledus Navidad. Titled "All I Want For Christmas Is Two Gold Front Teef", Judd's parody is performed in rap.

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Wikipedia on Alvin & the Chipmunks:

Alvin and the Chipmunks is a five-time Grammy Award-winning fictional musical group, created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958.


[I don't really know anything, but I know how to look it up!!]

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:41 PM

Slag:

I remember Maison Jussaud's very well. In the mid-1960's, I spent time around Bakersfield with my company. I used to call on Esther Giumarra, out in Edison, among others. One of my classmates at Fresno State was an Oildale native, Terry Hill, who later coached in the area, I believe. Thanks for the memories!

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 03:54 PM

PoppaGator, I heard that song for years and years as I knocked out my top two front teeth when I was just a baby, so went without until my permanent teeth came in around about seven years of age, I think. Everyone else thought it was funny and cute. I learned how to eat carrots and celery by using my side teeth!

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: PoppaGator
Date: 21 Nov 07 - 04:51 PM

From the (brief) Wikipedia article on "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus":

"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a Christmas song.

The original recording by Jimmy Boyd reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1952, and on the Cash Box magazine chart at the beginning of the following year.

Jimmy Boyd's record was actually banned by the Catholic Church in Boston when it was first released on the grounds it mixed sex with Christmas. Boyd aged thirteen was widely photgraphed meeting with the Archdiosis to explain the song.

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: GUEST,mcgtr
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 12:20 AM

after all is said and resaid, what are the chords, as poised in the mother of this thread ?


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Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Jul 22 - 02:37 PM

This was another Chipmunk song that's more of a rhythm & blues song:

Alvin:
Ow!

(The Chipmunks):
I'd stare him down (down) if the big, bad wolf was coming (uh-huh)
I'd scream loud (loud), keep your paws off my woman (uh-huh)
I'll tell ya now, love will make ya do some crazy things
Love, love, love, love, love

You got me going, you got me going out of my mind
Ooh girl, what's a guy gotta do to get to, you girl
I wanna, I wanna love you baby

I want you to call me your man
Ooh girl, baby you don't understand
Oh I would do anything (hey)

Alvin:
Tell me baby (hey)
Wha-wha-what do I gotta do? (hey)
T-To tell me baby (hey)
To ge-ge-get close to you

(The Chipmunks):
You got me going, you got me going out of my mind
Ooh girl, baby you don't understand
Oh I would do anything!

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 19 Jul 22 - 01:11 PM

Canned heat with the chipmunks , Christmas boogie ; one my favourite seasonal songs !

Subject: RE: Alvin and the Chipmunks
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Jul 22 - 05:03 PM

Not forgetting that recurring choice on 'Family Favourites' on BBC's The Light Service:
Ragtime Cowboy Joe