It started out as a clever-enough idea. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, a Broadway actor who'd had a pretty good role as a pianist in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, started experimenting ...

The chase was on, as it had been for years. After the tale of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was put to music and sold in a frenzy in 1949, each yuletide brought a bumper crop of sonic delights (or ...

David Seville never really existed at all, and yet there have been at least three of him in the last 60 years. Dave, of course, is the human adjunct to those famous singing rodents, Alvin and the ...

The Dark, Angry Father of ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’David Seville never really existed at all, and yet there have been at least three of him in the last 60 years. Dave, of course, is the human […] ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I'll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

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