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The Hot 100 #1 Song 54 Years Ago - "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" [1958] Topping the charts for 4 weeks in December and January, this 3-time Grammy-winning tune is also the last Christmas song to top reach #1 here in America.
Here it is slowed down so the Chipmunks' voices are near the originally recorded speed:
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That was all one man too: Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. The slower video proves it even more that's him, which is also kinda creepy. | |
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Didn't like it even as a kid... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Naw, didn't like Jr. or Sr.'s versions. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I use to beg my Mom to turn the record off...and she wouldn't cause she loved it. 
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Couldn't stand those Chippettes to save my life either. | |
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Don't even get me started on those... They sound too much like certain autotuned "artists" today... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Garbage. Love it! | |
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You think that's awful, check this one from the song's writer:
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The harmonies are awesome! I love the way the overemphasized endings ("nearrrrrr") come across when the song was sped up to Chipmunk speed.Cool tune. I think my parents had the 45 because I remember hearing it every Xmas.
Want a plane that loops the loop
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I didn't understand it either. I was like "the heck they mean 'a plane that loops the loop?'" | |
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