The chase was on, as it had been for years. After the tale of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was put to music and sold in a frenzy in 1949, each yuletide brought a bumper crop of sonic delights (or ...

Exactly 65 years ago, Ross Bagdasarian‘s “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” — a novelty song featuring weird, high-pitched voices augmented in a recording studio — kicked off what would ...

This undated photo released by The Lippin Group public relations firm shows Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karman with stuffed chipmunks, from left, Theodore, Alvin and Simon. SANTA BARBARA, ...

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