In a DL exclusive, sources tell us this guy was in serious consideration to be appointed Coronavirus Czar in the Trump White House, but aides couldn’t convince the president that the “witch doctor” and David Seville were the same person. They also had difficulty getting Trump to accept that “oo ee oo ah ah” had no therapeutic effect. They never even bothered trying to explain that Seville was really Ross Bagdasarian, a cousin of the novelist/playwright William Saroyan whose first success in songwriting was “Come On-a My House,” which he wrote with Saroyan based on an Armenian folk melody. He spent most of the ’50s acting in bit parts in Hollywood, but struck gold when he fooled around with a two-speed tape recorder and wrote this song. It hit No. 1 and sold 1.5 million singles in 1958, so Ed Sullivan found a way to get Bagdasarian on stage to pantomime it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iA_TZ15ruA
The popularity of “Witch Doctor” made a follow-up inevitable, and Bagdasarian timed “The Christmas Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” perfectly. He also wisely gave his “chipmunk” voices names, and he didn’t look far for inspiration — Alvin Bennett and Simon Warnoker were the the heads of Liberty Records, Ted Keep the recording engineer for the session. The rest is annoying cartoon history.