Not every great Christmas song has to be serious. The 50’s and 60’s were infamous for the release of many great novelty songs. One of which is Ross Bagdasarian’s 1958 “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”.

What Bagdasarian did at the time to vary the tape speeds in order to produce high-pitched “chipmunk” voices was a rarity and it’s believed to have never been done until he did it.

He had a hit on his hands and the song won three Grammy awards in 1958 for Best Comedy Performance, Best Children’s Recording and Best Engineered Record (non-classical). It was also nominated for Record of the Year.

I love the three-fourth time the melody is written in. It’s a song you could actually waltz to. And growing up watching the Chipmunks cartoon and even passing the love of the characters on to my own child, the song just brings back great memories of being a kid.