It started out as a clever-enough idea. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, a Broadway actor who’d had a pretty good role as a pianist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, started experimenting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian Sr. used the last $200 he had to purchase a state-of-the-art tape recorder and crafted the blend of sped ...

Ever seen a kid giggle at someone inhaling a helium balloon? Show them a high-pitched singing chipmunk and you can double that effect. Make that three chipmunks and you’ve hit paydirt - or so seems ...

"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip" is the fourth installment in this live-action film series. This time, our three musically talented chipmunks — Alvin (Justin Long), Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks owner Bagdasarian Productions has held talks with potential buyers, including ViacomCBS, sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC. The franchise includes songs, movies and TV ...

Cartoon characters are like vampires: They have the unique ability to live forever and never age. In reality, Alvin, Simon and Theodore would in their 60s by now, but the forever-young trio has just ...

Get ready for a very funny sing-along video led by the world's most mischievous chipmunk, Alvin! While he and his brothers Simon and Theodore perform each song, your kids will love singing, dancing ...

Even before Thanksgiving, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Brenda Lee were reborn for the holiday season, with classic songs of theirs — "White Christmas," "The Christmas Song," "Rockin' Around the ...

First, an unnecessary warning: the Chipmunks' version of Uptown Funk is a pretty horrible thing. Anyone who has a passing acquaintance with the helium vocal stylings of Alvin and the Chipmunks will ...

Forget Fast & Furious 7. In a first look at the newest ‘squeakquel’, Alvin and friends cling for dear life in car chases and belt out Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk on repeat It seems like everyone hates ...

For nearly 50 years, in various incarnations on the small screen and in other forms of media, lively chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore have been delighting young audiences around the world, wreaking ...