Rockin' Through the Decades
| Rockin' Through the Decades | |
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| Created by | Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (characters) |
| Directed by | Steve Karman |
| Starring |
Will Smith (host) Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. Janice Karman Ben Vereen Richard Moll Kenny Loggins Raven-Symoné Shelley Duvall Markie Post Little Richard |
| Country of origin |
 United States
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| Original language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 19 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Bagdasarian Productions Murakami-Wolf-Swenson |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | December 9, 1990 (as Rockin' Through the Decades) 1992 (as Rockin' with the Chipmunks) |
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| Soundtrack album by The Chipmunks | ||||
| Released | January 18, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | November 1988 (track 1), July–September 1989 (tracks 2-11), December 1990 (track 12) |
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| Genre | Children's music | |||
| Label | EMI America (US), Virgin (International) | |||
| Producer |
Tom Chase, Steve Rucker (track 1), Ross Bagdasarian, Janice Karman (tracks 2-11), Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis (track 12) |
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Rockin' Through the Decades is a live-action and animated television special based on characters from Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was directed by Steve Karman, produced by Bagdasarian Productions, premiered on NBC on December 9, 1990. It was released on VHS by Buena Vista Home Video in 1992 as Rockin' with the Chipmunks. Most recently, the special has been released September 8, 2009 by Paramount Pictures on the DVD The Very First Alvin Show along with A Chipmunk Reunion.
Rockin' With The Chipmunks made significant changes to the featured songs.
Segments from two episodes of The Alvin Show, A Chipmunk Christmas, and an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show are also featured. "Alvin's Harmonica" can be heard in the background while Will Smith is on the fifties set. Smith also does a rap introduction to the Sleigh Ride segment, giving his perspective on what to expect of the nineties.
Rockin' Through the Decades is also the name of a soundtrack music album by Alvin and the Chipmunks, released by Chipmunk Records in 1991, and contained all of the songs from the documentary, along with three added tracks.
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