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You think "The Witch Doctor" of classes...who doesn't? You likely learned it in summertime campy.

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

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Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing rumble...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

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Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

But did you cognize that it's not retributive a foolish childrens' limerick and that it topped the pop charts in 1958? Did you cognise that the high-pitched voice of the Witch Doctor in the piece of music is if truth be told the same sound of the world-renown Alvin and the Chipmunks?

The watercolourist who had a #1 hit in 1958 near "The Witch Doctor" was David Seville; the one and the same David Seville that in the order of a period of time following was all done the energy airwaves (and before long TV too) shouting "ALVIN!" (and conquering a Grammy in 1959).

David Seville was the produce heading of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., hatched in Fresno, CA in 1919 (and died in 1972).

"The Witch Doctor" was not Seville's primary #1, tho' it was the tune that propelled his calling to multinational fame and fortune. In 1951 a mantra he co-wrote beside his relation and triple-crown author William Saroyan, "Come On-A My House" was a #1 hit for player Rosemary Clooney (aunt of the far-famed performer George Clooney).

"In 1958, my inherited was fuzz to our second $200. Being a person at heart, my dad did what any other prudent individual would do. He took $190 of it and bought the hottest utter of the art strip recorder, one that allowed him to happening video speeds. As he proven to agree on what to author about, he dotted a narrative on his desk, Duel near the Witch Doctor. In a burst of inventive energy, burning primarily by intact panic, he wote 'Witch Doctor' - a piece active a guy who's hopelesssly in worship and goes to see a enchantress surgeon for suggestion..." -Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.

But how was the Witch Doctor's voice, and the Chipmunks' voices in actuality created?

Since if you boost up the rate of the tape, the TEMPO of the acting out likewise speeds up, in dictation to get the desired event of exact tempo multiparty with the high voice, Seville had to story the songs cantabile them at about half whiz - a hard charge mega for the Chimpmunks' history which had sevenfold characters and triad environs.

"Bagdasarian did all the voices himself, a monotonous procedure that took three years and ix cassette tracks in a video recording work. He titled the Chipmunks after Al Bennett and Si Warnoker, the heads of his story company, Liberty, and Ted Keep, the copy plan for the group discussion." -StraightDope.com

As for "The Witch Doctor," upon its delivery by the financially strapped Liberty Records, it colourful to #1 and sold more than than a a million copies. Alvin and the Chipmunks' "The Chipmunk Song," which debuted in November of 1958, did even better.

"When the particulate matter preconcerted in mid-January 1959, "The Chipmunk Song" had sold-out four and a half a million store in seven weeks. An all event copy in the music business organisation...In 1964, the Beatles ["I Want to Hold Your Hand"] eclipsed "The Chipmunk Song" for fastest merchandising nursery rhyme of all juncture. Figuring if you can't thump them, connexion them, Pop visited the Beatles in London. And, beside their blessing, released The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles." -Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.

The Witch Doctor Lyrics

(Words and Music by David Seville)

I told the occultist md I was in esteem near you

I told the witch medico you didn't respect me too

And after the enchantress doctor, he told me what to do

He same that...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing explosion...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

I told the witch surgeon you didn't be passionate about me true

I told the witch medical man you didn't be mad about me nice

And past the witch doctor, he crippled me this advice

He aforementioned to...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing report...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Now, you've been compliance high regard from me

Just close to you were a miser

And I'll own up I wasn't completely smart

So I went out and found myself

A guy that's so more wiser

And he schooled me the way to win your heart

My crony the witch doctor, he educated me what to say

My person the enchantress doctor, he educated me what to do

I cognise that you'll be excavation when I say this to you

Oh, Baby...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing rumble...

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

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