Steve Vining
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Steve Vining is a drummer, producer and engineer. He started out as a staff producer at Pickwick Records before rising to power as the head of Windham Hill Records.
As of 2006 he has acted as president of Savoy Label Group.
In 1980 he produced the Chipmunks' comeback album Chipmunk Punk for Bagdasarian Productions, and supplied the speaking voice of Simon and the singing voice of Theodore for that album, but his association with that group did not end there. He subsequently produced the Chipmunks/Nutty Squirrels collaboration album Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin the following year. And for the 2007 film Alvin and the Chipmunks, based on the group's second cartoon show , he returned to produce at least one song on the soundtrack, "I Love Rock and Roll" (He also provides Simon's singing voice).[1]