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Your brain behind The Chipmunks was actually a practiced songwriter with several straight hit recordings to his credit. Then went the humor/novelty route, at the forefront with “Witch Doctor,” that he would utilize the tone of voice effects later on for his toon masterpieces. These albums display both novelty as …

Although name Ross Bagdasarian is familiar and then devoted collectors of Americana, the three characters he created — Alvin, Simon, and Theodore Chipmunk — have already been famous all over the world for decades. The person who brought the Chipmunks alive was created on January 27, 1919, in Fresno, CA. …

Levant wore many hats — most famously being a concert pianist from 1932 until 1958 — within a bizarre profession that began being a Broadway musician within the mid-1920s, segued to Hollywood in 1929, and ended in self-deprecating, chain-smoking eccentricity in radio and Television. The kid of Ukrainian-Jewish blue-collar parents, …