The Alvin Show is a music album

Music Album

Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...

. It is the soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 album to the Chipmunks' first animated television series The Alvin Show

The Alvin Show

The Alvin Show is an American animated television series. It was the first to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, although a series with a similar concept The Nutty Squirrels Present had aired a year earlier...

. Upon the release of the album, the Chipmunks' first three albums were reissued with revised album cover art that utilized the cartoon redesigns of the characters.

Side one

1. "The Alvin Show Theme" opening (Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Neil Hefti
   Neal Hefti
   Neal Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and for scoring the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series of the same name.He began arranging...
   
    and Carl Stalling
   Carl Stalling
   Carl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.-Biography:Stalling was born to Ernest and...
   
   ) - 1:37
2. "The Mrs. Frumpington Story" – Mrs. Frumpington's Song (Michael Maltese
   Michael Maltese
   Michael "Mike" Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts.-Career:...
   
    and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) - 6:38
3. "A Visit to France" – 'I Wish I Could Speak French'" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) - 3:48

Side two

1. "Television Interview – 'Chipmunk Fun'" (Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Warren Foster
   Warren Foster
   Warren Foster , was a writer, cartoonist and composer for the animation division of Warner Brothers and later with Hanna-Barbera....
   
   , from original material composed by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) - 3:48
2. "Crashcup Invents the Bathtub – 'Crashcup's Work Theme (One Finger Waltz)'" (John Stanley
   John Stanley (comics)
   John Stanley was a comic book creator, best known for writing Little Lulu from 1945 to 1959. While mostly known for scripting, Stanley also was an accomplished artist who drew many of his stories, including the earliest Little Lulu issues. His specialty was humorous stories, both with licensed...
   
    and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) - 4:03
3. "Witch Doctor" (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) – 2:22
4. "The Alvin Show Theme" closing - 1:10

Band lineup

Ross Bagdasarian Sr. provided the voices for the chipmunks.

• Alvin: Guitars and vocals
• Simon: Bass and vocals
• Theodore: Drums and vocals

Additional personnel

• Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. – voice of David Seville
• Lee Patrick
  Lee Patrick (actress)
  Lee Patrick was an American theater and film actress.-Early life and education:Born in New York City, Patrick began acting on Broadway in 1924. For more than a decade, she was constantly employed and established herself as a popular actress. She appeared in the original 1929 production of June...
  
  /June Foray
  June Foray
  June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
  
   – voice of Mrs. Frumpington
• Shepard Menken
  Shepard Menken
  Shepard Menken was an American voice actor and character actor.Menken began his career at the age of 11, when he started appearing on children's radio programs...
  
   – voice of Clyde Crashcup
  Clyde Crashcup
  Clyde Crashcup is a fictional character from the early-1960s animated television series The Alvin Show.-Fictional character biography:Clyde Crashcup is a scientist in a white coat whose experiments invariably failed...
  
  ; voice of "Harry" ("Television Interview- 'Chipmunk Fun'" segment)

Production Crew

• Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. – producer
• David Hassinger
  David Hassinger
  David Hassinger was a sound engineer at RCA Studios in Los Angeles.From November 1964 until August 1966 he was the engineer for the Rolling Stones, working on all of their albums recorded in that period....
  
   – engineer
• James Getzoff – orchestrator
• Dan Yaccarino
  Dan Yaccarino
  Dan Yaccarino is an American author, illustrator and television producer known for his animated television series, children’s books and award-winning imagery....
  
  – cover artwork