Alvin and the Chipmunks is an animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958.
The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable one.
Alvin and the Chipmunks are managed by their human father David Seville. In reality, David Seville was Bagdasarian's stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their original record label.
Alvin and the Chipmunks were an unprecedented success, and the singing Chipmunks and their manager were given life in several animated cartoon productions, using redrawn, anthropomorphic chipmunks, and eventually films.
The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create higher pitched voices.
This oft-used process was also not entirely new to Bagdasarian, who had also used it for two previous novelty song projects, including "The Witch Doctor", but it was so unusual and well executed it earned the trio two Grammy Awards for engineering.
Although Alvin and the Chipmunks were fictional, they did release a long line of actual albums and singles, with "The Chipmunk Song" becoming a number-one hit single in the United States.
After Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.'s death in 1972, their voices were performed by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman in the subsequent incarnations of the 1980s and 1990s.
Food for thought
Funny, We Shrunk the Adults
Trick or Treason
May the best chipmunk win
The greatest show-offs on earth
Alvin And the Chipmunks Episode List
01. The C-Team/The Chipettes 02. Uncle Harry/Rock 'n' Robot 03. The Television Stars/The Cruise 04. The Chipmunks Story 05. Mr. Fabulous/Grandpa and Grandma Seville 06. Unidentified Flying Chipmunks/Mother's Day 07. The Chip-Punks/From Here to Fraternity 08. Urban Chipmunk/The Incredible Shrinking Dave 09. Angelic Alvin/The Trouble with Nanny 10. The Bully Ballet/Alvin... and the Chipmunk 11. Swiss Family Chipmunks/Santa Harry 12. A Dog's Best Friend Is His Chipmunk/The Curse of Lontiki 13. Baseball Heroes/May the Best Chipmunk Win 14. The Chipmunk Who Bugged Me/Rich and Infamous 15. Don't Be a Vidiot/A Horse, of Course 16.The Camp Calomine Caper/Lights, Camera, Alvin 17. Some Entrancing Evening/Match Play 18. The Picture of Health/The Victrola Awards 19. Royally Received/Gone Fishing 20. Setting the Record Straight/Father's Day Muffins 21. Alvin on Ice/Operation Theodore 22. The Gang's All Here/Snow Job 23. Maids in Japan/My Fair Chipette 24. New, Improved Simon/The Greatest Show-Offs on Earth 25. Guardian Chipmunks/Carsick 26. Hat Today Gone Tomorrow/Snow Wrong 27. Flim Flam/The Secret Life of Dave Seville 28. Who Ghost There?/Romancing Miss Stone 29. A Chip Off the Old Tooth/Three Alarm Alvin 30. Sisters/Court Action 31. Good Old Simon/The Chipmunks Go to Washington 32. Soccer to Me/Every Chipmunk Tells a Story 33. A Little Worm in the Big Apple/Staying Afloat 34. The Chipette Story 35. The Prize Isn't Right/The Gold of My Dreams 36. Mind Over Matterhorn/Alvin's Oldest Fan 37. Help Wanted: Mommy 38. Teevee or Not Teevee/A Rash of Babies 39. Whatever's Happened to Dave Seville?/Simon Seville, Superstar 40. Miss Miller's Big Gamble/Sweet Smell of Success 41. Cinderella? Cinderella? 42. Experiment in Error/How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? 43. Middle-Aged Davey/I Love L.A 44. Chipmunk Vice/Hooping It Up 45. Back to Dave's Future/Tell It to the Judge 46. Sincerely Theodore/My Pharaoh Lady 47. Simon Says/When the Chips Are Down 48. Alvin, Alvin, Alvin!/Dave's Dream Cabin 49. Old Friends/The Mystery of Seville Manor 50. Ask Alvin and the Chipmunks/Theodore Lucks Out 51. Big Dreams/Island Fever 52. Just One of the Girls/Goin' Down to Dixie 53. Dreamlighting 54. Elementary, My Dear Simon 55. Dave's Getting Married 56. Brunch Club 57. No Chipmunk Is an Island/Babysitter Frightnight 58. Food for Thought 59. Going for Broke 60. Treasure Island 61. Once Upon a Crime 62. The Phantom/Mad About Alvin 63. Vinny's Visit 64. Uncle Adventure/Luck O' the Chipmunks 65. Wings Over Siesta Grande 66. Theodore and Juliet/Quarterback in Curlers 67. Chipmunkmania 68. Grounded Chipmunk 69. Alvie's Angels 70. Cadet's Regrets 71. Alvin in Analysis 72. The Wall/The Amazing Chipmunks 73. Theodore's Life as a Dog/Queen of the High School Ballroom 74. Psychic Alvin/A Special Kind of Champion 75. Alvin's Obsession/Alvin's Not So Super Hero 76. Dave's Wonderful Life 77. Home Sweet Home/All Worked Up78. Nightmare on Seville Street/Thinking Cap Trap 79. Cookie Chomper III 80. Bye George/A Day in the Life 81. Like Father, Like Son/Dr. Simon and Mr. Heartthrob 82. Too Hip to Be Dave/Hearts and Flowers 83. Maltese Chipmunk/Dear Diary 84. Unfair Science/Shaking the Family Tree 85. Inner Dave/The Legend of Sleeping Brittany 86. Three Chipmunks and a Puppy/Phantom of the Rock Opera 87. The Return of Uncle Adventure/The Princess and the Pig 88. Alvin in Neverland 89. Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll 90. Back to Our Future 91. Bigger 92. Kong! 93. Batmunk 94. Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom 95. Star Wreck (The Absolutely Final Frontier) 96. Robomunk 97. S.T.: The Space Traveler 98. Irrational Buffoon's European Vacation 99. Chip Tracy 100. Alvin and the Chipmunks Gremlionis 101. Sploosh 102. Funny, We Shrunk the Adults
