Remember the original Alvin and the Chipmunks show

[tvje]

Does anyone remember the original Alvin and the Chipmonks show? The name of the actual show was called "The Alvin Show". It was a great show from the 1960's. It had a catchy theme song. I remember when it aired about 10 years ago on Nickalodeon.

It was far superior to the latter versions of Alvin and Chipmonks. I never liked the newer versions from the 80's. Anyway, each episode had 3 cartoons, with a couple of 10 second sketches. The first and third cartoon was Alvin and the Chipmonks.

The second cartoon was a cartoon about someone who clamed to invent everything named Clyde Crascove. He had a assitent named Leonardo that never talked. It was one of the funniest cartoons I ever seen. I think the Clyde Crascove cartoons was better than the original Alvin and Chipmonks cartoons, which I liked by the way. I liked most complement cartoons from the 60's and 70's like Mr. Peabody from the Bulwinkole show, and Super Chicken from George and the Jungle. better then the lead cartoons.

[musicradio77]

I saw the "Alvin Show" from the 60's and the 80's since I was a kid. I have "The Chipmunk Song" by David Seville and the Chipmunks on CD and tape.

[Steve Carras]

Originally Posted by tvje

Does anyone remember the original Alvin and the Chipmonks show? The name of the actual show was called "The Alvin Show". It was a great show from the 1960's. It had a catchy theme song. I remember when it aired about 10 years ago on Nickalodeon.

It was far superior to the latter versions of Alvin and Chipmonks. I never liked the newer versions from the 80's. Anyway, each episode had 3 cartoons, with a couple of 10 second sketches. The first and third cartoon was Alvin and the Chipmonks.

The second cartoon was a cartoon about someone who clamed to invent everything named Clyde Crascove. He had a assitent named Leonardo that never talked. It was one of the funniest cartoons I ever seen. I think the Clyde Crascove cartoons was better than the original Alvin and Chipmonks cartoons, which I liked by the way. I liked most complement cartoons from the 60's and 70's like Mr. Peabody from the Bulwinkole show, and Super Chicken from George and the Jungle. better then the lead cartoons.

To add a year-and-a-half reply:

Right oN! I grew up in the early to mid 1960s watching thoise, sadly removed by end o'decade.

It';s Clyde Crashcup (voiced a al old time British radio comic Richard Haydn+ by fellow similiar actor Sheoard Menken--who's pretty well familiar to those Californians my age for that Western Airlines ad--and this was a voice familiar ONYL to CALIF.residents but familiar thanks to TV use--on GILLIGAN and PETER POTAMUS--all through the nation*-"The OOOONLY way to fly"-a champagne drinking bird!). VERY funny stuff. Sound Effects by Joe Siracusa, who did that stuff for the Bullwinkle and some Popeyes as well.

The 'Munks did a lot of 19th.century stuff like BUFFALO GALS (inspired the WWII "Lawrence Welk" novelty DANCE W/A DOLLY) and THE BAND PLAYED ON (very famous for it's open l.ine "Casey would waltz with the strawberry blonde/and the band played on")..from the Gay '90s (back when gay MEANTS happy.)

The show was written by theatrical vets Leo Salkin, Ted Pierce, Cal Howard and a handful of others.

UPA's veteran designer Jules Engel is the guy you can credit for the design.

Ross Bagdasarian--the ftaher of the 'Munks--was involved with this and supplied the voices of Dave Seville and his little troublemakers--I mean, chipmunks.(Or CHimpmunks--back then there used to be a chimpo act on ED SULLIVAN and their own show, THE HATHAWAYS-no relaiton to PRINCESS DIARY star Anne-called the Marquis Chimps!) Reportedly, some others did some voices for the Chipmunks. And Bill Lee, a singer with the then hot Johnnie Mann singers, one of many choral album artists of the early 1960s, responible for much maligned--but to me very enjoyable--choral-folk and chroal mood tunes,--did the singing of Dave.

Format Films and Ross's own company Bagdasarain film company contributed to show to CBS in 1961. Seems like the Hanna barbera version of SINBAD appeared for a while (reflecting the process in the same decade of Jay Ward and UNDERDOG producing Leonardo-TTV shows being animated similirly by the same studio (Gamme prods.) and also accuired and thus mixed togther by the SAME ENTITIES@!)

"THis...is..the ALVIN SHOW, oh THE ALVIN SHOW you postivtively gonna love the ALVIN SHOW!"