I have a long love affair with Alvin and the Chipmunks. It started when I was 6 or 7—too young to know it was wrong to have a crush on a cartoon chipmunk that could talk—and when it was announced that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to get up close and personal with a few of your favorite chipmunks, the Blumenthal Performing Arts in Charlotte has you covered. Alvin and his brothers, Simon and Theodore, will be making ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ross Bagdasarian Jr., son of the characters' creator, discusses the Christmas tune's rich legacy. (Spoiler: the track's revenue can buy Alvin a lot of hula hoops.) By Steve Knopper Exactly 65 years ...

David Cross really had a bad time making Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 despite parents praising him for being in it. "Doing the third Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, was so, uh, they we were so ...