WFMU: Lost Media Archive (The Radio Show) with BC Sterrett: Playlist from December 25, 2020

Lost Media Archive (The Radio Show) with BC Sterrett: Playlist from December 25, 2020

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December 25, 2020: Two Hours of Chipmunk Ripoffs From The Lost Media Archive + Spotlight on Local Christmas Music

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Floyd Robinson & Huey the Hamster	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7” Single		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Benny With His Pal Joe O'Brien	’Twas the Night Before Christmas	Hey! It's Christmas!		0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Hoffman/Reading Study Unit 9	Mirror on Meaning	Aw, Knock it Off Chipmunk	The story record was missing. All that I have are the filmstrips and this accompanying record. Found at the thrift store long ago.)	0:07:30 (Pop-up)
No Aritst Given	The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunk Song/Jingle Bells Pickwick - 7” Single	(Notes: This is actually the version found on a Happy Crickets album, that sounds like they forgot to speed up the vocals. I love hearing what these people actually sound like.)	0:13:51 (Pop-up)
Happy Crickets	Puppet Song "Puppet Song" by "Happy Crickets"	Featuring The Chipmunk Song		0:16:34 (Pop-up)
The Peter Pan Pixies	Glow Worm "Glow Worm" by "The Peter Pan Pixies"	78 RPM single played at 45 speed	(Notes: False advertising all around: Pixie music, with chipmunks on the cover, with music narration that reveals that this was recorded for Grasshoppers.)	0:18:57 (Pop-up)
Paolo Noël	La Noël Des Petits "La Noël Des Petits" by "Paolo Noël"	Bouchon Et Ses Écureuils Avec Paolo Noël	(Notes: French Canadian Chipmunks. Found in Canada while visiting Otis)	0:22:24 (Pop-up)
The Chippers	There’s No Place Like Home For the Holidays	The Chippers Sing	(Notes: More Canadian Chipmunks)	0:25:21 (Pop-up)
Tale Spinners for Children	Strolling Through the Park One Day	Sing Along With Chipper And His Playmates		0:28:26 (Pop-up)
Chippy the Chipmunk	Good King Wenceslas	Christmas with Chippy the Chipmunk	(Notes: Cover comes with tin Christmas decoration of Chippy on the cover :)	0:31:43 (Pop-up)
The Woodchucks	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Christmas with The Woodchucks	(This is actually the Chippy the Woodchuck LP repackaged.)	0:33:25 (Pop-up)
Monchhichi	Monchhichi Love Song "Monchhichi Love Song" by "Monchhichi"	The Amazing Musical Monchhichi Album		0:35:29 (Pop-up)
The Penquins and Orchestra	Sailing Sailing	Sing Along with Humpty Dumpty	Notes: One of the greatest singing combinations on the planet.	0:39:50 (Pop-up)
Finley the Fish with Floyd Robinson	Finely the Fish	The Adventures of Finley the Fish		0:41:35 (Pop-up)
Lou Monte	The Italian Mouse "The Italian Mouse" by "Lou Monte"	7" Single		0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Spice Mice	We Three Mice "We Three Mice" by "Spice Mice"	Spice Mice Christmas	The only Spice Girls Chipmunk cash-in that I know of.	0:45:54 (Pop-up)
The Pixie Helpers And Santa Claus	The Christmas Song	Sing Along With Santa's Helpers		0:48:30 (Pop-up)
The Classmen (Carl E. Bolte, Jr.)	Elvin the Little Black Elf	7" Single		0:51:58 (Pop-up)
The Happy Hampsters	Carol Anne’s Theme	The Happy Hamsters Go Ghostbustin’		0:53:51 (Pop-up)
Charlie the Hamster	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Charlie the Hamster"	Charlie the Hamster Plays Christmas Songs with Floyd Robinson, Stanley and Huey		0:56:25 (Pop-up)
Huey the Hamster	God Has Time To Listen	Presenting Huey the Hamster		0:58:23 (Pop-up)
Woody the Woodchuck	Give God A Chance	Woody Woodchuch Sing Bible Stories		1:01:02 (Pop-up)
The Chipmonks, Happy Hamsters, & Silly Squirrels	12 Days of Christmas	Santa Claus and the Fun Street Gang		1:02:55 (Pop-up)
Elsa Rico & Daisy Mouse	Laugh With Me/Feliz Navidad	Laugh With Me Christmas	(Local LP from Provo, Utah)	1:06:29 (Pop-up)
C- Strong	Emmanuel (feat. Chelsey Smith)	Rappin For a Decade	(Local rap artist I saw perform in Ogden a couple months ago. My new favorite local outsider artist :)	1:09:15 (Pop-up)
Valerie Rose Sterrett	O Come O Come Emmanuel	Youtube Single	(My wife's new single, featuring members of local metal band “Out of Anger” + BC Sterrett on backup vocals if you can hear me ....towards the end ;)	1:11:17 (Pop-up)
Agnes Poetry	O Come O Come Emmanuel	Drown Maxi-Single	My favorite version of this song. (Utah’s answer to Depeche Mode)	1:15:40 (Pop-up)
The Nutty Squirrels	Ding-Dong "Ding-Dong" by "The Nutty Squirrels"	The Nutty Squirrels		1:21:22 (Pop-up)
Benedict Silberman His Chorus and Orchestra	The Chipmunk Song	7" Single		1:22:55 (Pop-up)
The Grasshoppoers	Santa Claus,Rudolph And Us			1:25:15 (Pop-up)
The Grasshoppoers	Santa Claus,Rudolph And Us	7" Single	(Notes: More false advertising: If you listen carefully, this recording was actually recorded for The Bunny Hoppers)	1:26:20 (Pop-up)
The Bunny Hoppers	The Children's Party	The Chipmunk Song		1:29:16 (Pop-up)
Chip and Dale with Clarice	Kris Kringle pt. 2	Golden Record Single	(Notes: 78rpm 6” single played at 45 rpm. Walt Disney’s “Original Chipmunks”)	1:31:52 (Pop-up)
The Happy Chipmunks	It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas	Merry Christmas From the Happy Chipmunks		1:34:43 (Pop-up)
The Happy Chipmunks …I mean The Happy Hamsters	We Wish You a Merry Christmas	More Christmas Fun with The Happy Hamsters	(Notice the sticker placed over the original title, changing Chipmunks to Hamsters. …Also notice a small Micheal Jackston Hamster sticker on my copy on the lower left edge of the cover.)	1:36:41 (Pop-up)
The Happy Hamsters	Billy Jean "Billy Jean" by "The Happy Hamsters"	The Happy Hamsters Sing Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits		1:39:37 (Pop-up)
The Turned On Squirrels	Beat It "Beat It" by "The Turned On Squirrels"	Turned On Squirrels (Featuring Girl Squirrel and Boy Squirrel)	The one that looks like Boy Squirrel is actually Girl Squirrel.	1:44:28 (Pop-up)
Shirley & Squirrely	Christmas Haunted House	Christmas with Shirley & Squirrely (and Melvin Too!)		1:48:26 (Pop-up)
Kenny and Corky	Suzy Snowflake "Suzy Snowflake" by "Kenny and Corky"	Nuttin' For Christmas 7"		1:51:18 (Pop-up)
Dancer, Prancer and Nervous	Happy Reindeer	7" Single		1:52:50 (Pop-up)
Katy Bødtger Og Buster Larsen Med Kor Med Morten Reesen Og Hans Orkester	De Tre Små Aber (The Chipmunk song)	7" Single	(Apparently this Danish version title translates as “The Three Little Monkeys”)	1:55:41 (Pop-up)
Santa's Snowmen	Frosty The Snowman	Swing Along with Santa’s Snowmen		1:58:45 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	1:59pm Don-O: After the weatherman chines in, you're on!
	2:01pm Don-O: Hey, BC!
	2:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	2:03pm Kat in Chicago: Two hours of faux-Chipmunks? Hoo boy.
	2:03pm Otis: Successfully moved from Vegas into a forest of singing creatures.
	2:05pm zivilars: Wow – I remembered to tune in, this theme show should be great! Merry X-Mas again everybody!
	2:07pm Mr Fab: As I said before - it was so easy to rip-off the Chipmunks.
	2:10pm BC Sterrett: Welcome everyone! Just trying to get things to work here in the studio
	2:11pm Don-O: A broken record player can make that Chipmunk magic happen!
	2:11pm BC Sterrett: Hope you all get a good grade on this!
	2:12pm Mr Fab: re the "Corn Weenie" track, it comes from here: blog.wfmu.org... and inspired a WFMU meme long before the 'milk rap' took over here. Scores of remixes and mashups resulted: blog.wfmu.org...
	2:13pm TheHipMen: Hi BC
	2:15pm TheHipMen: I bet spacebrother would love this show
	2:17pm BC Sterrett: Hi Hipman! Don-O, Fab Zilivars, Otis, Kat, Jan and those listening in :)
	2:19pm Kat in Chicago: Hi BC!
	2:19pm VaLRose: Merry Christmas!
	2:19pm TheHipMen: Hi VaLRose
	2:19pm Otis: Tuned in playing holiday backgammon and eating sugar cookies.
	2:22pm TheHipMen: Fun Fact: The song Glow Worm was about the introduction to electric lights
	2:24pm TheHipMen: Wow, French Chipmunks
	2:26pm Kat in Chicago: Québécois Chipmunks 🍁
	2:29pm notsoKWYET: Ho ho ho !
	2:29pm TheHipMen: Hi notdoKWYET
	2:30pm BC Sterrett: Hey there KWET. That's facinating Hipmen. Hi VaLRose :)
	2:31pm Mr Fab: Years ago, I did a "remix" of the Chipmunk Song where I slowed down their parts so they just sounded like a bunch of middle-aged guys singing "chrisssssstmasssss tiiiimme is heeeeere agaaaaaain..."
	2:37pm Kat in Chicago: I wonder if any of these Chip-nots got a Christmas card from Ross Bagdasarian’s legal team.
	2:38pm TheHipMen: I think Monchhichi might be based off a knock-off toy
	2:39pm Mr Fab: I guess if you didn't call them The Chipmunks, you were good. (Well, not really "good," but y'know..)
	2:40pm BC Sterrett: Some would use the spelling "Chipmonks" or they would just have a picture of Chipmunks on the cover with a completely different band etc.
	2:43pm Mr Fab: Don't think that would fly nowadays. Lawyers are a lot more aggressive. So don't get any funny ideas, Alvin...Alvin?
	2:43pm Kat in Chicago: Chipmonks! I’m picturing tonsured rodents shrieking out an accelerated version of “Oh, How To Do Now”
	2:45pm Mr Fab: That is hilarious, Kat! Yup, them sped up voices going 'I hate you baby!'
	2:46pm TheHipMen: BC, that Monnchichi song you played is based off a toy www.google.com...
	2:46pm Kat in Chicago: Ha, I wonder if I could do that in Audacity.
	2:49pm BC Sterrett: Yes, Hipmen, I had two Monchhichi as a kid. One of my favorite toys in my elementary years. The voices are still Chipmunk :)
	2:52pm BC Sterrett: I quite like this one. lol
	2:52pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:52pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:53pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:53pm TheHipMen: Lou Monte is well known for the song Mama, Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head) not to be confused with Mama, Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On The Baby's Head) by The Bobby Peterson Quartet
	2:54pm JerrytheHutt: These are great so far.
	2:56pm BC Sterrett: Thanks Jerry :)
	2:57pm TheHipMen: Hi JerrytheHutt
	2:57pm JerrytheHutt: Oh my comments are posting! Yaaaaay.
	2:57pm JerrytheHutt: Hello errbody
	2:59pm TheHipMen: You know the Monnchichi toy originally came from Japan
	2:59pm Sonderangebot: I love Charlie
	3:00pm Kat in Chicago: I didn’t know hamsters were so religiously inclined.
	3:01pm TheHipMen: Funny enough, there is a video about the Happy Hamsters www.youtube.com...
	3:03pm TheHipMen: Hi Sondrrangebot
	3:04pm TheHipMen: I can't hear it
	3:05pm TheHipMen: BC, I can't hear it
	3:10pm BC Sterrett: Yeah the mixing was weird on that one
	3:13pm Otis: Yay Valerie and BC!
	3:17pm Kat in Chicago: Nice!
	3:23pm Jennifairie: Merry Christmas DJ Blair and Val!!!❤❤❤
	3:32pm Mr Fab: Stepped away for a bit to have a christmas zoom call with family members scattered all over the world, i come back here, and these sped-up voices are still going. This episode is going to haunt my dreams!
	3:39pm BC Sterrett: Still going...
	3:41pm Kat in Chicago: Oh, dear.
	3:47pm BC Sterrett: Those Beat it Grunts!
	3:48pm Kat in Chicago: Yeah, wtf?
	3:49pm Mr Fab: Gawd, ha! This really takes it to another level.
	3:51pm Mr Fab: Gary Panter did a Chipmunks parody version of the Sex Pistols that's pretty funny.
	3:52pm Kat in Chicago: Wow, Christmas, Halloween, and ersatz chipmunks all in one record.
	3:58pm Otis: Thanks BC for a really nutty 2 hours, loved it!
	3:59pm Kat in Chicago: Your collection is astonishing, BC. Thanks for sharing... I think :)
	4:00pm BC Sterrett: Thanks everyone! Happy Holidays :)
	3:37am Sonny S: Can anybody help me? I have a vague childhood memory of listening to a version of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" that sounded like The Chipmunks. However, it does not match the two legitimate versions of that song by The Chipmunks that I have found on YouTube. I'm guessing it was probably a Chipmunks rip-off act. What was notable about it was how the Alvin character, presumably, changed the last line of the song from "and a happy new year" to something like "and a kooky new year" (or maybe "goofy new year") which, of course, prompted scolding from the Dave Seville character. Does anybody have a recollection of this? I would love to find that version again if I could only identify the actual artist.

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Floyd Robinson & Huey the Hamster	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7” Single		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Benny With His Pal Joe O'Brien	’Twas the Night Before Christmas	Hey! It's Christmas!		0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Hoffman/Reading Study Unit 9	Mirror on Meaning	Aw, Knock it Off Chipmunk	The story record was missing. All that I have are the filmstrips and this accompanying record. Found at the thrift store long ago.)	0:07:30 (Pop-up)
No Aritst Given	The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunk Song/Jingle Bells Pickwick - 7” Single	(Notes: This is actually the version found on a Happy Crickets album, that sounds like they forgot to speed up the vocals. I love hearing what these people actually sound like.)	0:13:51 (Pop-up)
Happy Crickets	Puppet Song "Puppet Song" by "Happy Crickets"	Featuring The Chipmunk Song		0:16:34 (Pop-up)
The Peter Pan Pixies	Glow Worm "Glow Worm" by "The Peter Pan Pixies"	78 RPM single played at 45 speed	(Notes: False advertising all around: Pixie music, with chipmunks on the cover, with music narration that reveals that this was recorded for Grasshoppers.)	0:18:57 (Pop-up)
Paolo Noël	La Noël Des Petits "La Noël Des Petits" by "Paolo Noël"	Bouchon Et Ses Écureuils Avec Paolo Noël	(Notes: French Canadian Chipmunks. Found in Canada while visiting Otis)	0:22:24 (Pop-up)
The Chippers	There’s No Place Like Home For the Holidays	The Chippers Sing	(Notes: More Canadian Chipmunks)	0:25:21 (Pop-up)
Tale Spinners for Children	Strolling Through the Park One Day	Sing Along With Chipper And His Playmates		0:28:26 (Pop-up)
Chippy the Chipmunk	Good King Wenceslas	Christmas with Chippy the Chipmunk	(Notes: Cover comes with tin Christmas decoration of Chippy on the cover :)	0:31:43 (Pop-up)
The Woodchucks	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Christmas with The Woodchucks	(This is actually the Chippy the Woodchuck LP repackaged.)	0:33:25 (Pop-up)
Monchhichi	Monchhichi Love Song "Monchhichi Love Song" by "Monchhichi"	The Amazing Musical Monchhichi Album		0:35:29 (Pop-up)
The Penquins and Orchestra	Sailing Sailing	Sing Along with Humpty Dumpty	Notes: One of the greatest singing combinations on the planet.	0:39:50 (Pop-up)
Finley the Fish with Floyd Robinson	Finely the Fish	The Adventures of Finley the Fish		0:41:35 (Pop-up)
Lou Monte	The Italian Mouse "The Italian Mouse" by "Lou Monte"	7" Single		0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Spice Mice	We Three Mice "We Three Mice" by "Spice Mice"	Spice Mice Christmas	The only Spice Girls Chipmunk cash-in that I know of.	0:45:54 (Pop-up)
The Pixie Helpers And Santa Claus	The Christmas Song	Sing Along With Santa's Helpers		0:48:30 (Pop-up)
The Classmen (Carl E. Bolte, Jr.)	Elvin the Little Black Elf	7" Single		0:51:58 (Pop-up)
The Happy Hampsters	Carol Anne’s Theme	The Happy Hamsters Go Ghostbustin’		0:53:51 (Pop-up)
Charlie the Hamster	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Charlie the Hamster"	Charlie the Hamster Plays Christmas Songs with Floyd Robinson, Stanley and Huey		0:56:25 (Pop-up)
Huey the Hamster	God Has Time To Listen	Presenting Huey the Hamster		0:58:23 (Pop-up)
Woody the Woodchuck	Give God A Chance	Woody Woodchuch Sing Bible Stories		1:01:02 (Pop-up)
The Chipmonks, Happy Hamsters, & Silly Squirrels	12 Days of Christmas	Santa Claus and the Fun Street Gang		1:02:55 (Pop-up)
Elsa Rico & Daisy Mouse	Laugh With Me/Feliz Navidad	Laugh With Me Christmas	(Local LP from Provo, Utah)	1:06:29 (Pop-up)
C- Strong	Emmanuel (feat. Chelsey Smith)	Rappin For a Decade	(Local rap artist I saw perform in Ogden a couple months ago. My new favorite local outsider artist :)	1:09:15 (Pop-up)
Valerie Rose Sterrett	O Come O Come Emmanuel	Youtube Single	(My wife's new single, featuring members of local metal band “Out of Anger” + BC Sterrett on backup vocals if you can hear me ....towards the end ;)	1:11:17 (Pop-up)
Agnes Poetry	O Come O Come Emmanuel	Drown Maxi-Single	My favorite version of this song. (Utah’s answer to Depeche Mode)	1:15:40 (Pop-up)
The Nutty Squirrels	Ding-Dong "Ding-Dong" by "The Nutty Squirrels"	The Nutty Squirrels		1:21:22 (Pop-up)
Benedict Silberman His Chorus and Orchestra	The Chipmunk Song	7" Single		1:22:55 (Pop-up)
The Grasshoppoers	Santa Claus,Rudolph And Us			1:25:15 (Pop-up)
The Grasshoppoers	Santa Claus,Rudolph And Us	7" Single	(Notes: More false advertising: If you listen carefully, this recording was actually recorded for The Bunny Hoppers)	1:26:20 (Pop-up)
The Bunny Hoppers	The Children's Party	The Chipmunk Song		1:29:16 (Pop-up)
Chip and Dale with Clarice	Kris Kringle pt. 2	Golden Record Single	(Notes: 78rpm 6” single played at 45 rpm. Walt Disney’s “Original Chipmunks”)	1:31:52 (Pop-up)
The Happy Chipmunks	It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas	Merry Christmas From the Happy Chipmunks		1:34:43 (Pop-up)
The Happy Chipmunks …I mean The Happy Hamsters	We Wish You a Merry Christmas	More Christmas Fun with The Happy Hamsters	(Notice the sticker placed over the original title, changing Chipmunks to Hamsters. …Also notice a small Micheal Jackston Hamster sticker on my copy on the lower left edge of the cover.)	1:36:41 (Pop-up)
The Happy Hamsters	Billy Jean "Billy Jean" by "The Happy Hamsters"	The Happy Hamsters Sing Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits		1:39:37 (Pop-up)
The Turned On Squirrels	Beat It "Beat It" by "The Turned On Squirrels"	Turned On Squirrels (Featuring Girl Squirrel and Boy Squirrel)	The one that looks like Boy Squirrel is actually Girl Squirrel.	1:44:28 (Pop-up)
Shirley & Squirrely	Christmas Haunted House	Christmas with Shirley & Squirrely (and Melvin Too!)		1:48:26 (Pop-up)
Kenny and Corky	Suzy Snowflake "Suzy Snowflake" by "Kenny and Corky"	Nuttin' For Christmas 7"		1:51:18 (Pop-up)
Dancer, Prancer and Nervous	Happy Reindeer	7" Single		1:52:50 (Pop-up)
Katy Bødtger Og Buster Larsen Med Kor Med Morten Reesen Og Hans Orkester	De Tre Små Aber (The Chipmunk song)	7" Single	(Apparently this Danish version title translates as “The Three Little Monkeys”)	1:55:41 (Pop-up)
Santa's Snowmen	Frosty The Snowman	Swing Along with Santa’s Snowmen		1:58:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:59pm Don-O: After the weatherman chines in, you're on!
	2:01pm Don-O: Hey, BC!
	2:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	2:03pm Kat in Chicago: Two hours of faux-Chipmunks? Hoo boy.
	2:03pm Otis: Successfully moved from Vegas into a forest of singing creatures.
	2:05pm zivilars: Wow – I remembered to tune in, this theme show should be great! Merry X-Mas again everybody!
	2:07pm Mr Fab: As I said before - it was so easy to rip-off the Chipmunks.
	2:10pm BC Sterrett: Welcome everyone! Just trying to get things to work here in the studio
	2:11pm Don-O: A broken record player can make that Chipmunk magic happen!
	2:11pm BC Sterrett: Hope you all get a good grade on this!
	2:12pm Mr Fab: re the "Corn Weenie" track, it comes from here: blog.wfmu.org... and inspired a WFMU meme long before the 'milk rap' took over here. Scores of remixes and mashups resulted: blog.wfmu.org...
	2:13pm TheHipMen: Hi BC
	2:15pm TheHipMen: I bet spacebrother would love this show
	2:17pm BC Sterrett: Hi Hipman! Don-O, Fab Zilivars, Otis, Kat, Jan and those listening in :)
	2:19pm Kat in Chicago: Hi BC!
	2:19pm VaLRose: Merry Christmas!
	2:19pm TheHipMen: Hi VaLRose
	2:19pm Otis: Tuned in playing holiday backgammon and eating sugar cookies.
	2:22pm TheHipMen: Fun Fact: The song Glow Worm was about the introduction to electric lights
	2:24pm TheHipMen: Wow, French Chipmunks
	2:26pm Kat in Chicago: Québécois Chipmunks 🍁
	2:29pm notsoKWYET: Ho ho ho !
	2:29pm TheHipMen: Hi notdoKWYET
	2:30pm BC Sterrett: Hey there KWET. That's facinating Hipmen. Hi VaLRose :)
	2:31pm Mr Fab: Years ago, I did a "remix" of the Chipmunk Song where I slowed down their parts so they just sounded like a bunch of middle-aged guys singing "chrisssssstmasssss tiiiimme is heeeeere agaaaaaain..."
	2:37pm Kat in Chicago: I wonder if any of these Chip-nots got a Christmas card from Ross Bagdasarian’s legal team.
	2:38pm TheHipMen: I think Monchhichi might be based off a knock-off toy
	2:39pm Mr Fab: I guess if you didn't call them The Chipmunks, you were good. (Well, not really "good," but y'know..)
	2:40pm BC Sterrett: Some would use the spelling "Chipmonks" or they would just have a picture of Chipmunks on the cover with a completely different band etc.
	2:43pm Mr Fab: Don't think that would fly nowadays. Lawyers are a lot more aggressive. So don't get any funny ideas, Alvin...Alvin?
	2:43pm Kat in Chicago: Chipmonks! I’m picturing tonsured rodents shrieking out an accelerated version of “Oh, How To Do Now”
	2:45pm Mr Fab: That is hilarious, Kat! Yup, them sped up voices going 'I hate you baby!'
	2:46pm TheHipMen: BC, that Monnchichi song you played is based off a toy www.google.com...
	2:46pm Kat in Chicago: Ha, I wonder if I could do that in Audacity.
	2:49pm BC Sterrett: Yes, Hipmen, I had two Monchhichi as a kid. One of my favorite toys in my elementary years. The voices are still Chipmunk :)
	2:52pm BC Sterrett: I quite like this one. lol
	2:52pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:52pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:53pm JerrytheHutt: I'm bummed I missed the monchichi tune.
	2:53pm TheHipMen: Lou Monte is well known for the song Mama, Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head) not to be confused with Mama, Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On The Baby's Head) by The Bobby Peterson Quartet
	2:54pm JerrytheHutt: These are great so far.
	2:56pm BC Sterrett: Thanks Jerry :)
	2:57pm TheHipMen: Hi JerrytheHutt
	2:57pm JerrytheHutt: Oh my comments are posting! Yaaaaay.
	2:57pm JerrytheHutt: Hello errbody
	2:59pm TheHipMen: You know the Monnchichi toy originally came from Japan
	2:59pm Sonderangebot: I love Charlie
	3:00pm Kat in Chicago: I didn’t know hamsters were so religiously inclined.
	3:01pm TheHipMen: Funny enough, there is a video about the Happy Hamsters www.youtube.com...
	3:03pm TheHipMen: Hi Sondrrangebot
	3:04pm TheHipMen: I can't hear it
	3:05pm TheHipMen: BC, I can't hear it
	3:10pm BC Sterrett: Yeah the mixing was weird on that one
	3:13pm Otis: Yay Valerie and BC!
	3:17pm Kat in Chicago: Nice!
	3:23pm Jennifairie: Merry Christmas DJ Blair and Val!!!❤❤❤
	3:32pm Mr Fab: Stepped away for a bit to have a christmas zoom call with family members scattered all over the world, i come back here, and these sped-up voices are still going. This episode is going to haunt my dreams!
	3:39pm BC Sterrett: Still going...
	3:41pm Kat in Chicago: Oh, dear.
	3:47pm BC Sterrett: Those Beat it Grunts!
	3:48pm Kat in Chicago: Yeah, wtf?
	3:49pm Mr Fab: Gawd, ha! This really takes it to another level.
	3:51pm Mr Fab: Gary Panter did a Chipmunks parody version of the Sex Pistols that's pretty funny.
	3:52pm Kat in Chicago: Wow, Christmas, Halloween, and ersatz chipmunks all in one record.
	3:58pm Otis: Thanks BC for a really nutty 2 hours, loved it!
	3:59pm Kat in Chicago: Your collection is astonishing, BC. Thanks for sharing... I think :)
	4:00pm BC Sterrett: Thanks everyone! Happy Holidays :)
	3:37am Sonny S: Can anybody help me? I have a vague childhood memory of listening to a version of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" that sounded like The Chipmunks. However, it does not match the two legitimate versions of that song by The Chipmunks that I have found on YouTube. I'm guessing it was probably a Chipmunks rip-off act. What was notable about it was how the Alvin character, presumably, changed the last line of the song from "and a happy new year" to something like "and a kooky new year" (or maybe "goofy new year") which, of course, prompted scolding from the Dave Seville character. Does anybody have a recollection of this? I would love to find that version again if I could only identify the actual artist.

Lost Media Archive (The Radio Show) with BC Sterrett: Playlist from December 25, 2020

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