In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian Sr. used the last $200 he had to purchase a state-of-the-art tape recorder and crafted the blend of sped-up vocals/standard-paced music for his novelty hit “Witch Doctor.” ...

Alvin & The Chipmunks have been some of the most beloved cartoon characters since 1958. They were an animated musical band created by Ross Bagdasarian, originally starting with a novelty song called ...

“Ooh, eeh, ooh aah aah/Ting tang, wallawalla bing bang!” They just don’t write lyrics like those anymore. Perhaps for good reason but, that snippet is from a No. 1 hit in 1958. More on that later but ...