The most bizarre thing about “David Seville and the Chipmunks” was their creator, Ross Bagdasarian, the cousin of William Saroyan.
Together, they wrote Rosemary Clooney’s 1951 mega-hit, “Come On-A My House,” which she described as a song composed by two Armenians in an Italian dialect sung by an Irish girl.
It is perhaps the only pop hit ever written by a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The most bizarre thing about “David Seville and the Chipmunks” was their creator, Ross Bagdasarian, the cousin of William Saroyan.
Together, they wrote Rosemary Clooney’s 1951 mega-hit, “Come On-A My House,” which she described as a song composed by two Armenians in an Italian dialect sung by an Irish girl.
It is perhaps the only pop hit ever written by a Pulitzer Prize winner.