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Alvin! Alvin! Alvin! (Sammy Davis Jr. motivational song)
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Greymuzzles. If you are in the mid 1980's, you would hear about the 80's kids shows on TV on the weekday afternoons and the Saturday mornings. If it is that you have been in my time and hear about the show with the biological classification, the family Sciuridae, you will know....
Yep, despite of the before "The Alvin Show" in 1961-62, this 1980's version was a mainstay for the decade. Yes, before they got revived to be more real for the 2000's this group was for me, and I liked them for a while. The squeaky voices of Alvin, Simon and Theodore back then with the Chippettes of Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor have been ingrained in my mind, but they have not been an earworm really, and I would be used to them.
HOWEVER, it was a few songs that would be earworm when you don't know the title of them, nor know who sang the original song. From the title of this journal, it was this episode that got me to getting crazy. There was this one song that had me wondering what was the lyrics, the full song, and who sang it. Thank heavens for the Internet!
For nearly 35 years, the song that they sung in the episode that appeared as #48a (Season 5, Episode 4a, debuting on October 3, 1987) got me into bewilderment as when it was sung in a crooning way by the Seville Chipmunks it was nice to the ear. I only remembered the last few lines of the chorus.
The episode was that Alvin was on a rocking horse being a bit petrified and cannot find himself in the beginning, and did react at a point that there is a singer better than his group. He then tries to find his identity-becoming a Michael Jackson wannabe, a cowchip (chipmunk cowboy), and a business being (like a CEO), but there were funny and unsensical results by him, and his guardian Dave Seville, Theodore and Simon decided that enough is enough and act like him to show that he is appreciated the way he is and just act himself.
No doubt that when Alvin was acting this way, the song by Sammy Davis Jr. "I’ve Gotta Be Me" fits well with the episode. When I heard it in the cartoon, I heard the last lines as "I want to be you," but I guess that is wrong. Here is how it goes:
After hearing the original song, I would feel that this was a powerful one to hear. Though the Chipmunk version may be less "goosebumpy":
I would have to say with the original Sammy Davis Jr. version, after I had an anxiety attack for 2 days, I felt this feeling of uplift as that is a song that does make you more into action for yourself. I guess it was by fate that this song returned to me and I got to find it! You will have to see that the original is one that would cause someone who is 18 or perhaps past a certain age that the world is making life unfair.
YOU ARE THE ONE THAT CAN BE IN THE FATE OF YOURSELF.
You do have dreams, a place to be, and you have a personal vision to fulfill. You belong in this world and don't expect it to come easy-it is all by yourself that you should get things done to get a sort of fulfillment. The song does blow me away in the right way as I did not get selected to be part of a job and I was likely to be hired, but things have turned. It is that song that resurfaced that got me to turn around a little bit, but it was also from prayer and some encouragement and solace from my mother that got me to feeling better and more determined to make changes to myself. For this song, it has bolstered me a bit more to keep going. When times are tough, don't give up, like Sammy Davis Jr.'s song, and we can relate to one part taken from the movie, WALL-E (as the lyric is reversed when the captain said it, but it is not much different:) "I want to live, not merely survive"-it is a BIG WANT you got to have, instead of having to settle with small needs.
So think of this song deeply when you are thinking about life, and value yourself EVERY DAY. You are yourself, and like the song says, don't be like someone else-like what Alvin did in that episode.
It is a VERY powerful song, and after hearing the Sammy Davis original, I clapped for it, and it was at its time in 1969, a Billboard top 100 at #11. How could this song not win any award like a Grammy at least?!?
They don't make songs like they used to these days...
YES, HEARING IT FOR THE SECOND TIME, I DID CRY. IT WAS REALLY MOVING TO ME.
Greymuzzles. If you are in the mid 1980's, you would hear about the 80's kids shows on TV on the weekday afternoons and the Saturday mornings. If it is that you have been in my time and hear about the show with the biological classification, the family Sciuridae, you will know....
Yep, despite of the before "The Alvin Show" in 1961-62, this 1980's version was a mainstay for the decade. Yes, before they got revived to be more real for the 2000's this group was for me, and I liked them for a while. The squeaky voices of Alvin, Simon and Theodore back then with the Chippettes of Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor have been ingrained in my mind, but they have not been an earworm really, and I would be used to them.
HOWEVER, it was a few songs that would be earworm when you don't know the title of them, nor know who sang the original song. From the title of this journal, it was this episode that got me to getting crazy. There was this one song that had me wondering what was the lyrics, the full song, and who sang it. Thank heavens for the Internet!
For nearly 35 years, the song that they sung in the episode that appeared as #48a (Season 5, Episode 4a, debuting on October 3, 1987) got me into bewilderment as when it was sung in a crooning way by the Seville Chipmunks it was nice to the ear. I only remembered the last few lines of the chorus.
The episode was that Alvin was on a rocking horse being a bit petrified and cannot find himself in the beginning, and did react at a point that there is a singer better than his group. He then tries to find his identity-becoming a Michael Jackson wannabe, a cowchip (chipmunk cowboy), and a business being (like a CEO), but there were funny and unsensical results by him, and his guardian Dave Seville, Theodore and Simon decided that enough is enough and act like him to show that he is appreciated the way he is and just act himself.
No doubt that when Alvin was acting this way, the song by Sammy Davis Jr. "I’ve Gotta Be Me" fits well with the episode. When I heard it in the cartoon, I heard the last lines as "I want to be you," but I guess that is wrong. Here is how it goes:
After hearing the original song, I would feel that this was a powerful one to hear. Though the Chipmunk version may be less "goosebumpy":
I would have to say with the original Sammy Davis Jr. version, after I had an anxiety attack for 2 days, I felt this feeling of uplift as that is a song that does make you more into action for yourself. I guess it was by fate that this song returned to me and I got to find it! You will have to see that the original is one that would cause someone who is 18 or perhaps past a certain age that the world is making life unfair.
YOU ARE THE ONE THAT CAN BE IN THE FATE OF YOURSELF.
You do have dreams, a place to be, and you have a personal vision to fulfill. You belong in this world and don't expect it to come easy-it is all by yourself that you should get things done to get a sort of fulfillment. The song does blow me away in the right way as I did not get selected to be part of a job and I was likely to be hired, but things have turned. It is that song that resurfaced that got me to turn around a little bit, but it was also from prayer and some encouragement and solace from my mother that got me to feeling better and more determined to make changes to myself. For this song, it has bolstered me a bit more to keep going. When times are tough, don't give up, like Sammy Davis Jr.'s song, and we can relate to one part taken from the movie, WALL-E (as the lyric is reversed when the captain said it, but it is not much different:) "I want to live, not merely survive"-it is a BIG WANT you got to have, instead of having to settle with small needs.
So think of this song deeply when you are thinking about life, and value yourself EVERY DAY. You are yourself, and like the song says, don't be like someone else-like what Alvin did in that episode.
It is a VERY powerful song, and after hearing the Sammy Davis original, I clapped for it, and it was at its time in 1969, a Billboard top 100 at #11. How could this song not win any award like a Grammy at least?!?
They don't make songs like they used to these days...
YES, HEARING IT FOR THE SECOND TIME, I DID CRY. IT WAS REALLY MOVING TO ME.
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