Slightly OT: 60?s Chimpmunks & Freberg on iTunes!!!
AAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLVIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Our older members like myself will appreciate this one: Practically the entire catalogue of original Ross Bagdasarian Alvin and the Chipmunks albums are now on iTunes! I downloaded the one I remembered most from my childhood, and -- though it?s been 40 years -- I remembered every single line of intro dialogue as it played. This is sooooooo much funnier than any of the later Chimpmunk incarnations: somehow more innocent and more anarchic at the same time, with great comic timing. And check out those LP covers! The memories!!!
If you?ve never experienced the original Chipmunks (beyond the Xmas song & Witch Doctor) I highly recommend downloading the song ?Alvin?s Orchestra? (best David Seville meltdown ever) or ?Buffalo Gals? for a great finale with June Foray doing her scary battleaxe mother-in-law voice.
And, speaking of June Foray, iTunes has also gotten (finally!) the Stan Freberg albums ?Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America? and ?Best of? albums. The USA record (a satirical musical comedy trip through our country?s history) is the Sgt. Pepper of comedy albums. Humor?s a subjective thing, of course, but this is a work of genius. The cd's been out of print for a while.
And all these great albums are in iTunes-plus format!
And, hey, this isn't all *that* far off topic: Freberg and Foray have both done important animation voice work and the chipmunks....well, they shared time with my Disney LP's on my old little blue record player!
AAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLVIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Our older members like myself will appreciate this one: Practically the entire catalogue of original Ross Bagdasarian Alvin and the Chipmunks albums are now on iTunes! I downloaded the one I remembered most from my childhood, and -- though it?s been 40 years -- I remembered every single line of intro dialogue as it played. This is sooooooo much funnier than any of the later Chimpmunk incarnations: somehow more innocent and more anarchic at the same time, with great comic timing. And check out those LP covers! The memories!!!
If you?ve never experienced the original Chipmunks (beyond the Xmas song & Witch Doctor) I highly recommend downloading the song ?Alvin?s Orchestra? (best David Seville meltdown ever) or ?Buffalo Gals? for a great finale with June Foray doing her scary battleaxe mother-in-law voice.
And, speaking of June Foray, iTunes has also gotten (finally!) the Stan Freberg albums ?Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America? and ?Best of? albums. The USA record (a satirical musical comedy trip through our country?s history) is the Sgt. Pepper of comedy albums. Humor?s a subjective thing, of course, but this is a work of genius. The cd's been out of print for a while.
And all these great albums are in iTunes-plus format!
And, hey, this isn't all *that* far off topic: Freberg and Foray have both done important animation voice work and the chipmunks....well, they shared time with my Disney LP's on my old little blue record player!