# Chip and Dale **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870 "2001-10-17T01:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/21 "2001-10-18T02:25:33Z")
CAZZLE - I’ve owned both of those albums! I don’t know what happened to them, but I too reveled in the joy of Chip and Dale and detest those _other_ chipmunks. Kyle ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/22 "2001-10-18T04:34:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cazzle \* > \*\ ***MisterThyristor** , **Flodnak** , thank you both. That’s the album and the song. It did exist! I’m just shocked and astounded that no other Dopers ever had that album or heard that song. I guess 1980 wasn’t a good year for buying Christmas albums. Still, I have a feeling that there was a television special to accompany the album. Could be wrong about _that_. > > I’m off to buy me a copy of Disney’s Merry Christmas Carols, and relive my childhood. > > 😃 \*\* You’re welcome, **cazzle** , I just wondered what it would be like to have someone “forever in my debt”! 😃 And **Flodnak** , I did try clicking on the thumbnail to enlarge it, but unfortunately my monitor must not be as good as yours because it was still basically unreadable to me. But thanks for following up on my “honest work”! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/23 "2001-10-19T04:19:31Z")
**Tyklfe** - I’m glad to hear it! Oh, at last someone who understands!! 🙂 Our copy of the album was scratched on the track “Here Comes Santa Claus”. My little brother grew up singing the part where the song would jump “So hang your stockings and… hang your stockings and… hang your stockings and…” - it was so funny! He would have been only three at the time, I guess. How quickly time flies! I’m anxiously awaiting my new copy of the old album to arrive. I hope it doesn’t take too long! Oh, and **MisterThyristor** … does this discharge my debt? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/24 "2001-10-19T04:46:24Z")
**cazzle** Wow, my name in a sig!?! (blushes) :o This is almost as good as my first post when **racinchikki** said that she loved me “in a purely platonic ‘chocolate-enabler’ way” for finding her Dark Chocolate Aeros online. 😃 Consider your debt totally discharged (and you don’t even have to keep it in your sig for long). I get reinforcement enough just from being able to help. You wouldn’t happen to know where I can get that other Chip and Dale song would you? Did you find it in your MP3 search? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/25 "2001-10-19T05:12:05Z")
No, I didn’t. I’d love to get it too. That’s the song I remember them singing as they ran around Walt Disney’s office. I haven’t seen that clip in years, but I often hum the song! Haha. It’s so very sad! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/26 "2001-10-19T07:25:56Z")
Well, **cazzle** , the reason _I’d_ never heard of that album is because I’m an Old Fart. Christmas 1980, I was eleven years old… too old (at least in my own mind) for a Disneyfied Christmas any more. We _did_ own another album that turns up on that same page though (“Mickey Mouse Christmas Surprises”) - interesting to see it turn up there. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/27 "2001-10-20T10:46:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cazzle \* > **On the same album Molly Ringwood does a version of The First Noel.** Sigh…I’ve gotta hammer out another one of these "are you sure"s. Do you mean Molly Ring **wald** , the actress? She did do some singing when she was a tot (her dad is a musician). If so, get her name right! Unless you’re referring to someone else entirely, in which case my head is spinning. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/28 "2001-10-20T21:27:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dale The Bold \* > \*\*Anything involving Chip and Dale is superior to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Trust me, I know. \*\* You must not have ever heard the haunting and beautiful Hardee’s commercial, circa late 1980’s: > [@](#): > > (to tune of Segar’s _Old Time Rock & Roll_) > Just take those old glasses off the shelf, > Come down to Hardee’s and help yourself > No other glasses have this kind of class, > I want an Alvin and the Chipmunks glass! ::wipes tear from eye:: It still moves me, after all this time. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/29 "2001-10-20T22:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by cazzle \* > > **On the same album Molly Ringwood does a version of The First Noel.** > > Sigh…I’ve gotta hammer out another one of these "are you sure"s. Do you mean Molly Ring **wald** , the actress? She did do some singing when she was a tot (her dad is a musician). If so, get her name right! Unless you’re referring to someone else entirely, in which case my head is spinning. \*\* D’oh! You’re right!! And I know it’s RingWALD, not RingWOOD - that was a typo! Oh! I’m so embarrassed! :::Cazzle crawls away in shame::: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/30 "2001-10-20T22:42:46Z")
Oh, don’t be ashamed, **cazzle**! At least you didn’t say Ring **worm**! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/31 "2001-10-21T00:41:30Z")
Hahaha. Yes, I can be thankful for small mercies 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/32 "2001-10-21T04:44:06Z")
Another confirmation that the almub DOES exist. In fact, I am holding a copy of the audio casette version right here! It reads: * * * DISNEY SONGTAPE MERRY CHRISTMAS CAROLS Side One: -The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t be Late) -I Wish it Could be Chriatmas All Year Long -Sleigh Ride -Away in a Manger -Here We Come A-Caroling -The First Noel Side Two: -Here Comes Santa Claus -Joy to the World -Silver Bells -The Twelve Days of Christmas -Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (C) MCMLXXX Buena Vista Distribution Co. * * * Mine is an orange casette with a picture of Donald ringing a bell in a Santa Suit a la Salvation Army. My personal favourite song is the Twelve Days of Christmas. I always think Goofy and Donald’s bantering about the Five Golden Rings is hilarious. Donald interrupting Chip and Dale by quacking with the beat in the Chipmunk Song is classic. I always thought the rendition of The First Noel was a tad whiney. I far prefer the “Disney-ized” versions over the tracks that feature kids and that guy, e.g. Silver Bells. Ah, the memories. I have to go listen to it now… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/33 "2001-10-21T09:39:34Z")
Oh how I envy you, **Soup\_du\_jour**! Still, I hope it will be only a couple of weeks until I’m holding my own copy in my hot little hands again. Until then… well, I’m just going to have to listen to the CD I bought LAST Christmas, “Disney Presents A Family Christmas” which has everything but the Chipmunk song and I Wish It Could Be Christmas All Year Long. Considering all I really wanted was the Chipmunk song… ahh well. I love the Twelve Days of Christmas where Goofy and Donald get into the fight! We thought it was the funniest thing ever when we were little tacks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/34 "2001-10-30T01:55:57Z")
I got it! I got it!! My very own copy of Disney’s Merry Christmas Carols. I’m so perfectly happy right now 🙂 Tonight, I’m off to Mums to borrow her record player so I can listen to it as well as look at it. I love you guys. I love all the world. Happiness is blue and has Disney characters carolling on the cover. :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/35 "2001-11-27T21:37:27Z")
[Disney’s Christmas Collection](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000E9LJ/ref=ase_hyltonadcroftstr/103-9730178-2257413) also features a duet by them on the last track. And [Vol. 2](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001YVEE/ref=ase_hyltonadcroftstr/103-9730178-2257413) has them taking part in The Twelve Days of Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Grinnygog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@Grinnygog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grinnygog)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/36 "2010-11-18T17:26:04Z")
I too was a big fan of the Di$ney Christmas albums of 1979 & 1980. I was lucky enough to find “A Family Christmas” shortly after I started collecting CDs, but was discouraged as well that several songs were not included on it. Well, flash forward many years and I discover that in 1999, a CD was released IN JAPAN (only the Japanese appreciate completists!) that includes the 7 songs NOT included on “A Family Christmas”! Your Chip ‘n’ Dale song is one of them! It has the same cover and title as the first Christmas album, “Disney’s Christmas Favorites”. I discovered and purchased it from Amazon many years ago. I don’t know if it’s still available or not. But I’d be happy to upload it if you are interested! Kevin D. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/37 "2010-11-18T17:35:30Z")
> [@Grinnygog](#): > > I too was a big fan of the Di$ney Christmas albums of 1979 & 1980. I was lucky enough to find “A Family Christmas” shortly after I started collecting CDs, but was discouraged as well that several songs were not included on it. > > Well, flash forward many years and I discover that in 1999, a CD was released IN JAPAN (only the Japanese appreciate completists!) that includes the 7 songs NOT included on “A Family Christmas”! Your Chip ‘n’ Dale song is one of them! > > It has the same cover and title as the first Christmas album, “Disney’s Christmas Favorites”. I discovered and purchased it from Amazon many years ago. I don’t know if it’s still available or not. But I’d be happy to upload it if you are interested! > > Kevin D. Was it sung by The Zombies? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/38 "2010-11-18T17:54:25Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **Grinnygog**! We call threads that have been inactive for a long time “zombies,” which explains **Chefguy** ’s joke. Since you’ve revived it, though, I’m going to move it to Cafe Society, which is where we discuss the arts. Again, welcome – enjoy your time here. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/39 "2010-11-18T18:53:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Was it sung by The Zombies? Well, being a Christmas-themed song, it was the [Time of the Season](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_the_Season)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870/40 "2010-11-18T19:43:14Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Well, being a Christmas-themed song, it was the [Time of the Season](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_the_Season)! 😃 Hah! Well played, sir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chip-and-dale/87870.md?page=1)