meeeee I waaaaaaant a hoooooooolaa hooooooooop

[spatch]

Hear Chipmunks slowed down! (Thanks, snapdoolie!) Hear Ross Bagdasarian sing in three-part harmony! Shudder at Theodore's throaty baritone giggle performed by a grown man! Oh, ain't we got fun.

I remember trying to accomplish this when I was a kid, only I didn't have the patience to slow the record down with my finger. We did have some cassette recorders, though, and I discovered that if you held down the pause button halfway on one as it was rolling, the mechanism used to pause the cassette would actually speed the tape heads up a little bit. This meant you could speed up the playback and make your own wacky Chipmunk songs if you want (hint: make them sing something dirty for extra laffs) -- or, if you held the pause halfway down during recording, you could make SLOOOOW GIAAAAANT VOIIIIIICE. I remember trying to slow down a recording of the Chipmunks by playing it into the fiddled-with tape recorder, but I don't remember results as, well, downright creepy as this.

So who did this particular monstrosity, anyway?

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HURR HURR HURR

That *so* messes up my childhood memories....

[(Anonymous)]

Every time I hear the "I still want a Hooooo-la-hooooop!" line sung by a baritone, it makes me cringe... During the whole song, I'm thinking to myself, "speed up damnit... this is far too slow!"

And to think, I always envisioned the cartoon breaking new frontiers in voicing, by spending years to teach chipmunks how to sing. (Although, they probably didn't play their own instruments - Much like the Monkees.)