Sing Again With the Chipmunks

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Sing Again with the Chipmunks
Sing Again with the Chipmunks cover
Studio album by David Seville and The Chipmunks
Released January 1960
Recorded June-October 1959
Genre Children's
Length 24:41
Label Liberty Records
Producer(s) Ross Bagdasarian
Professional reviews
David Seville and The Chipmunks chronology
Let's All Sing With...
(1959)
Sing Again With...
(1960)
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).

Contents

[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

  1. "Sing Again With The Chipmunks" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. & Ross Bagdasarian Jr.) – 0:53
  2. "Coming ’Round The Mountain" (Original composition by Earlen Rentz•Chipmunks version by Earlen Rentz and Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 2:14
  3. "Home On The Range" (Brewster Higley & Daniel Kelley) – 2:53
  4. "I Wish I Had A Horse" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. & Mark McIntyre) – 2:04
  5. "Swanne River" (H. Pitman Clarke [based on the poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning]) – 1:49
  6. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore) – 1:35

[edit] Side two

  1. Sing A Goofy Song (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 2:32
  2. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Harry Thacker Burleigh) – 2:02
  3. Witch Doctor (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) — ["group" version—re-recording] – 2:04
  4. Working On The Railroad (Bill Balsham, var. Benjamin Goodman) – 1:56
  5. Row Your Boat (Original Composition by E.O. Lyte•Chipmunks Version by E.O. Lyte & Ross Bagdasarian Sr.) – 1:38
  6. 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]