- Sing Again with The Chipmunks
Infobox Album |
Name = Sing Again with the Chipmunks
Type =Album
Artist = David Seville and The Chipmunks
Released = 1959 1960
Recorded = June-October 1959
Genre = Children's
Length = 24:41
Label =Liberty Records
Producer =Ross Bagdasarian
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lq2ibkj96akz link]
Last album = "Let's All Sing With..." (1958)
This album = "Sing Again With..." (1959)
Next album = "Around The World With..." (1960)"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.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.
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.
Miscellanea
This album has Alvin's first songwriting credit.
This album also marked TheAbnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra 's recording debutTrack listing
ide 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 byElizabeth Barret Browning ] ) – 1:49
#"When Johnny Comes Marching Home " (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore) – 1:35ide 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.) – 3:01Band 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 vocalsAdditional personnel
Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra : strings and horns on "Alvin's Orchestra"Production Credits
Ross Bagdasarian - Producer
Ted Keep - Engineer
Pate/Francis & Assoc. - cover design and actual artwork - [original pressing]
Studio Five - animation artwork - [reissue pressing]
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