I sure would like to know what that event was like! (Does anybody remember?) It looks like it would have been a lot of fun – plus all those free 45's too.
And a frozen Coke or some fresh popcorn on the way out of Hills would have made it a perfect day.
I'll be doing more on Hills here on the blog in the next month or so.
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| Christmas 1959 |
One of my "first material possessions" was this windup Alvin doll (at left), which was a Christmas present in 1959. He's holding his trademark harmonica, and when you wound him up, he played Alvin's Harmonica. (It looks like I found it pretty amusing.) It didn't take me long to rip the harmonica out of his hands; it laid in the bottom of the toy box for years, long after the Alvin doll was put out of commission.
We also had one or two Chipmunk 45's when I was a kid, and we watched The Alvin Show too. (You can buy a DVD of the very first show here.)
For a nice history of the whole Chipmunk phenomenon, visit their website.
3 comments:
I rec'd a Chipmunks do Beatles covers album. Sometimes when I hear a Beatles classic I hear Alvin "Do you want to know a Secret"
We used to play "Chipmunks" with my mother's Della Reese and Mahalia Jackson albums, playing them at high speed.....hilarious!
Loved Hills Dept. Store. As a kid, my parents and I would go there and Kmart, and then usually end the day at Wendys on cooper-foster.
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