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In the song, the singer asks a witch doctor for romantic advice; the witch doctor responds in a high-pitched squeaky voice with a nonsense incantation which creates an earworm. The technique developed in this song for the voice of the witch doctor was later used for the creation of the voices of the Alvin and the Chipmunks .
Ross S. Bagdasarian [a] ( / bæɡdəˈsɛriən /; January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), known professionally by his stage name David "Dave" Seville, [3] was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for creating the cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks. Initially a stage and film actor, he rose to prominence in 1958 with the songs "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk ...
The songs "La Bamba" (from their album, The Invasion of the Spacepeckers ), "Tico Tac" (from their album, On Satellite) and "Witch Doctor" were the only cover versions they did, originally by Ritchie Valens, synth-pop group Polysix (also produced by Cat Music) and Ross Bagdasarian, respectively.
Cartoons (band) Cartoons, also known as Cartoons DK, are a Eurodance band from Denmark, best known for their song "DooDah!" and their cover of the 1958 novelty song "Witch Doctor", both hits released in 1998. The group wears outlandish plastic costumes and wigs in live performances as caricatures of 1950s American rock and roll stars.
The song was a hit, holding number one for three weeks in the Billboard Top 100 chart. Nothing makes any reference to chipmunks, but the song is sometimes included on Chipmunk compilations as if the Chipmunks had provided the voice of the Witch Doctor.
Toonage is the debut studio album by Danish band Cartoons, released on 24 September 1998. [1] The album includes the group's biggest hit "Witch Doctor", a cover version of Ross Bagdasarian 's novelty song from 1958. The single reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart. The album's first single, "DooDah!", adapted from the American folk song "Camptown ...
His version of the Donovan song " Season of the Witch " was also featured in this movie and on the soundtrack. In 1996, he performed the song " Cruella de Ville " during the end credits of the film 101 Dalmatians . Dr. John at the Liri Blues Festival, Italy, July 2010
The voice of the purple people eater is a sped-up recording, giving it a voice similar to, but not quite as high-pitched or as fast, as Mike Sammes 's 1957 "Pinky and Perky", or Ross Bagdasarian 's "Witch Doctor", another hit from earlier in 1958; and "The Chipmunk Song" which was released late in 1958.