Sing Again with The Chipmunks
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| Studio album by David Seville and The Chipmunks | |||||
| Released | 1959 1960 | ||||
| Recorded | June-October 1959 | ||||
| Genre | Children's | ||||
| Length | 24:41 | ||||
| Label | Liberty Records | ||||
| Producer | Ross Bagdasarian | ||||
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Sing Again with The Chipmunks is The Chipmunks' second album. It follows the same format as their first album. It was released in 1960. It contains the A-sides to their fifth and sixth singles—"Alvin's Orchestra" and "I Wish I Had A Horse". It was released in January 1960 (see 1960 in music). The album has been ressued twice on compact disc, in 1990 and 2008; both CD versions use the revised 1961 cover artwork minus the song lyrics printed on the original back cover.
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[edit] Success
The album was expected to do as well as their previous album Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks which peaked at #4 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart, but instead the album only peaked at #31 on the Pop Albums Chart.
[edit] Album cover variations
The original issue of the album depicted three realistic looking chipmunks on the cover sharing space with a photo of David Seville. When the album was reissued three years later, a new cover was substituted, that of an Alvin Show animation cel setup reenacting the poses the original chipmunks and Seville made.
[edit] Miscellanea
This album has Alvin's first songwriting credit.
This album also marked The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra's recording debut
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Sing Again With The Chipmunks" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. & Ross Bagdasarian Jr.) – 0:53
- "Coming ’Round The Mountain" (Original composition by Earlen Rentz•Chipmunks version by Earlen Rentz and Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 2:14
- "Home On The Range" (Brewster Higley & Daniel Kelley) – 2:53
- "I Wish I Had A Horse" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. & Mark McIntyre) – 2:04
- "Swanne River" (H. Pitman Clarke [based on the poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning]) – 1:49
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore) – 1:35
[edit] Side two
- Sing A Goofy Song (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 2:32
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Harry Thacker Burleigh) – 2:02
- Witch Doctor (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) — ["group" version—re-recording] – 2:04
- Working On The Railroad (Bill Balsham, var. Benjamin Goodman) – 1:56
- Row Your Boat (Original Composition by E.O. Lyte•Chipmunks Version by E.O. Lyte & Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 1:38
- Alvin’s Orchestra (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 3:01
[edit] Band lineup
David Seville: keyboards, conduction and commentary
Alvin Chipmunk: lead vocals, guitars, and harmonica
Simon Chipmunk: guitars, bass and background vocals
Theodore Chipmunk: drums and background vocals
[edit] Additional personnel
Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra: strings and horns on "Alvin's Orchestra"
[edit] Production Credits
Ross Bagdasarian - Producer
Ted Keep - Engineer
Pate/Francis & Assoc. - cover design and actual artwork - [original pressing]
Studio Five - animation artwork - [reissue pressing]
