The Chipmunk Songbook
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The Chipmunk Songbook is an album by Alvin and the Chipmunks with David Seville. It was released in January 1, 1962 by Liberty Records.
In 1986, a two-record compilation album was released by Capitol-EMI America, also titled The Chipmunk Songbook, and featuring an entirely different track listing, consisting of songs taken from various albums from the 1960s.
Track listing (1962 Release)
Side one
- "The Band Played On" (John F. Palmer, Charles B. Ward)
- "Buffalo Gals" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) {featuring June Foray}
- "The Alvin Twist" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
- "Funiculì, Funiculà" (Peppino Turco, Luigi Denza)
- "My Wild Irish Rose" (Chauncey Olcott)
- "Down in the Valley" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
- "Git Along Little Dogies" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)
Side two
- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (Jane Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- "On Top of Old Smoky" (Trad., arr. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) {featuring June Foray}
- "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, Alfred Lee)
- "Strolling Through The Park One Day" (Ed Haley)
- "Polly Wolly Doodle" (Dan Emmett)
- "Bicycle Built for Two" (Harry Dacre) {featuring June Foray}
- "America the Beautiful" (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward)
Virtually all of the songs were also used on The Alvin Show.
