{"id":23062,"date":"2014-12-24T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23062"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:50:15","slug":"remember-this-the-chipmunk-song-1-december-1958-did-you-know-that-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23062","title":{"rendered":"Remember This? &#8216;The Chipmunk Song&#8217;&#8230; #1 December 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Remember-This-The-Chipmunk-Song...-1-December-1958-Did-you-know-that-David.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Remember This? &#8216;The Chipmunk Song&#8217;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/1\">#1<\/a> December 1958 <\/p>\n<p>Did you know that David Seville was the stage name for Ross  Bagdasarian?  Bagdasarian was creator and voice of The Chipmunks. The year before he had a hit with &#8216;The Witch Doctor&#8217;&#8230;Oh e oo aha aha, ting tang walla walla bing bang, etc. <\/p>\n<p>The tape machine Bagdasarian used to record the chipmunk sound on was a variable speed, Tape-O-Matic &#8220;Voice of Music&#8221; reel-to-reel recorder. The key words here are variable speed. People tried to emulate his sound, but without the variable speed function, you just couldn&#8217;t get there. <\/p>\n<p>This song was  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/1\">#1<\/a> Christmas of 1958 and won two Grammys, one of which was for technology. This is the original version with some interesting video editing. Enjoy, share and sing along! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI<\/a>My 3rd fan made Chipmunk video featuring clips from various Chipmunks Christmas special episodes and shows where David Seville and The Chipmunks celebrate Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/771843106186574\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember This? &#8216;The Chipmunk Song&#8217;&#8230; #1 December 1958 Did you know that David Seville was the stage name for Ross Bagdasarian? Bagdasarian was creator and voice of The Chipmunks. The year before he had a hit with &#8216;The Witch Doctor&#8217;&#8230;Oh e oo aha aha, ting tang walla walla bing bang, etc. The tape machine Bagdasarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[680,1188,806],"class_list":["post-23062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-people","tag-tang","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}