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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for Creator/MGMRecords, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.

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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for Creator/MGMRecords, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.
1965. Burland also did some sonically-ambitious sketch-based novelty singles in the vein of Creator/StanFreberg.
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The initial success of ''Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being ''The Nutty Squirrels''.

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The initial success of ''Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being ''The The Nutty Squirrels''.
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Despite beating the Chipmunks by a year, ''The Nutty Squirrels Present'' cartoons were a commercial flop. While there was initial interest from major TV stations such as WGN-TV in Chicago (where they ran six days a week in a 9:00-9:25 PM block), some smaller stations were hesitant to pick them up due to the "radical" jazz content and others simply dumped them alongside their packages of Creator/{{Terrytoons}}, Creator/WalterLantz and other old theatrical cartoons. The cartoons soon faded from view, although they have been spotted on the air as late as 1975 (on WSBK-TV in Boston).

On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.

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Despite beating the Chipmunks by a year, ''The Nutty Squirrels Present'' cartoons were a commercial flop. While there was initial interest from major TV stations such as WGN-TV in Chicago UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} (where they ran six days a week in a 9:00-9:25 PM block), some smaller stations were hesitant to pick them up due to the "radical" jazz content and others simply dumped them alongside their packages of Creator/{{Terrytoons}}, Creator/WalterLantz and other old theatrical cartoons. The cartoons soon faded from view, although they have been spotted on the air as late as 1975 (on WSBK-TV in Boston).

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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, Creator/MGMRecords, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.
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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965. Due to legal issues, the duo was renamed Shirley and Squirrelly, where they had minor CountryMusic success with "Hey Shirley (This Is Squirrely)".

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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965. Due to legal issues, the duo was renamed Shirley and Squirrelly, where they had minor CountryMusic success with "Hey Shirley (This Is Squirrely)".
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The initial success of ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being ''The Nutty Squirrels''.

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The initial success of ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' ''Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being ''The Nutty Squirrels''.
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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.

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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'') for MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.
1965. Due to legal issues, the duo was renamed Shirley and Squirrelly, where they had minor CountryMusic success with "Hey Shirley (This Is Squirrely)".
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* {{Scatting}}: The "chipmunk scat" is the main gimmick of the Squirrels, which features on their self-titled and ''Bird Watching'' albums (including their big hit, "Uh! Oh!"), as well as both sides of the RCA Victor single. "Nutty Noël" has the Squirrels scat while the background singers sing the lyrics. "Please Don't Take Our Tree for Christmas" and the ''...and Other Smashes'' album are the exceptions; the duo sing proper lyrics on those.
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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a couple of follow-ups: ''Bird Watching'' for Creator/ColumbiaRecords in 1961 and ''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'' for MGM in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.

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On the recording side, Elliott and Burland released a couple of follow-ups: ''Bird Watching'' few more discs: a single ("Please Don't Take Our Tree for Creator/ColumbiaRecords Christmas" / "Nutty Noël") in 1960 and an album (''Bird Watching'') in 1961 for Creator/ColumbiaRecords, a single ("Hello Again" / "Blusette") for [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Victor]] in 1964 and ''The an album (''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'' Smashes'') for MGM MGM, also in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland is also known as the composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.
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The initial success of ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being '''The Nutty Squirrels'''.

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The initial success of ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in late 1958 led to several imitators trying to replicate the success of the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being '''The ''The Nutty Squirrels'''.
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'''The Nutty Squirrels''' were a scat singing virtual band formed in imitation of [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] that had a Top 40 hit song “'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh-yejaWO4 Uh-Oh]] ''” in late 1959.

With the success of musical group ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' in the late 1950's spawned numerous imitation recording groups, including ''The Grasshoppers'' and ''The Nutty Squirrels''. While ''The Grasshoppers'' never made it to animated form, the cartoon version of ''The Nutty Squirrels'' actually wound up beating ''The Chipmunks'' to TV by a year.

The story of '''The Nutty Squirrels''' began when jazzman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Elliott Don Elliott]] and TV composer [[http://www.answers.com/topic/sascha-burland Alexander "Sascha" Burland]][[note]]who wrote "Sounds", the theme ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' used from 1957 to 1965[[/note]], amused by ''The Chipmunks'' concept, joined together to record an album in the guise of a hip group of Chipmunk sound-alike rodents. Like Ross Bagdasarian[[note]][[StageName David “Dave” Seville]][[/note]], they recorded their normal singing voices at 16 RPM, then played them back at 33-1/3 rate per minute, giving that unique Chipmunk-sound to the hip scat-singing style Elliott had perfected during his solo work in the early 1950's. Backing Elliott and Burland's altered vocals were some of the best New York session men of the late 1950s, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley]] on sax, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jaspar Bobby Jaspar]] on flute and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most Sam Most]] on clarinet. ''The Nutty Squirrels'' were quickly signed by the new Hanover-Signature label, owned in part by comedian Creator/SteveAllen and producer Bob Thiele. Unfortunately the masters to the album were lost in transit when Allen moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's. A cut from that first album, "''Uh-Oh Part 2''," made it to number 14 in the Hit Parade for the week of December 28, 1959, which is almost exactly one year after "''The Chipmunk Song''" made the same list.

Meanwhile, plans were being made to bring ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' to television. Format Films, producer of ''The Chipmunk'' cartoons, hit a snag during the development stage of the series. After numerous delays and unsuccessful attempts to create visual counterparts of the Chipmunks, Format eventually came up with suitable renditions of the characters and farmed out some of the animation work to Jack Kinney Productions. This delay enabled Transfilm-Wylde, a New York-based company specializing in animated commercials, to secure the television rights to ''The Nutty Squirrels'' characters and get the jump on ''The Chipmunks''. They had 150 five-minute ''Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons ready by September 1960 for syndication by Flamingo Telefilms.

Animator and historian Mark Kausler reported the following:
-> “Fima Noveck, the president of Flamingo Telefilm Sales, imported a lot of Eastern European, Zagreb, [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Russian]], British, [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] and [[AsianAnimation Chinese]] cartoons to the U.S. He recut most of them to five minutes in length and syndicated them under the Flamingo Films logo to TV stations in the late fifties and early sixties. The package was available in both color and black and white. I saw many of these cartoons in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the ‘''Wrangler's Cartoon Club''’ and ‘''Nutty Squirrels Presents''” programs. Noveck dubbed very ‘kid friendly’ tracks onto most of the cartoons, always using the same voices for the cute little rabbits, squirrels and foxes in the Creator/Soyuzmultfilm cartoons he imported, and adding voice over ‘Herb Vigran’ type Brooklyn narrators to the cartoons that were mostly pantomime.”

'''''The Nutty Squirrels Presents''''' featured the ''Nutty Squirrels'' in newly animated introductions to the foreign cartoons dubbed in English. Unlike their musical recordings, the animated ''Nutty Squirrels'' were a year ahead than ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow the Chipmunks]]''. ''The Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons had a streamlined UPA-like style and jazzy backgrounds, but they were a commercial flop. While they were immediately picked up in major markets, like Chicago's WGN-TV where they ran six days a week, some smaller market stations were hesitant to sign on, afraid of their "radical" jazz content. The stations that did pick them up just scattered the cartoons amongst their packages of Terrytoons, Walter Lantz and other old theatrical cartoons. The cartoon soon faded from view and by 1964, "The Nutty Squirrels" duo of Elliott and Burland disbanded. Sascha Burland later went on to write the 1966 instrumental hit "''No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In''," which is the famous Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle.

''The Nutty Squirrels'' are enjoying a renewed interest of late, thanks to occasional airplay on the Creator/DrDemento syndicated radio show, and the inclusion of their “Salt Peanuts” song in the soundtrack of animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' and “''Uh! Oh! Part 2''” in a 1998 Creator/JohnWaters movie soundtrack.

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'''The [[caption-width-right:324:The cover of their first album, ''The Nutty Squirrels''' were a scat singing virtual band formed in imitation of [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Squirrels'', released by Hanover.]]

The Chipmunks]] that had a Top 40 hit song “'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh-yejaWO4 Uh-Oh]] ''” in late 1959.

With the
initial success of musical group ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' with "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" in the late 1950's spawned numerous imitation recording groups, including ''The Grasshoppers'' and ''The Nutty Squirrels''. While ''The Grasshoppers'' never made it 1958 led to animated form, several imitators trying to replicate the cartoon version success of ''The Nutty Squirrels'' actually wound up beating ''The Chipmunks'' to TV by a year.

The story
the helium-voiced trio, the most notable of which being '''The Nutty Squirrels''' began when jazzman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Elliott Squirrels'''.

This squirrel duo was the brainchild of jazz musicians
Don Elliott]] Elliott and TV composer [[http://www.answers.com/topic/sascha-burland Alexander "Sascha" Burland]][[note]]who wrote "Sounds", Burland. Amused by the theme ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' used from 1957 to 1965[[/note]], amused by ''The Chipmunks'' Chipmunks concept, joined together they decided to record an a jazz scat album in under the guise of a hip group of Chipmunk sound-alike rodents. Like Ross Bagdasarian[[note]][[StageName David “Dave” Seville]][[/note]], they recorded squirrels, recording their normal singing voices at 16 RPM, then played RPM and playing them back at 33-1/3 rate per minute, giving that unique Chipmunk-sound to the hip scat-singing style Elliott had perfected during 33 RPM just like Ross Bagdasarian did for his solo work in the early 1950's. Chipmunks. Backing Elliott and Burland's their altered vocals were some of the best New York session men musicians of the late 1950s, 1950's, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley]] Cannonball Adderley on sax, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jaspar Bobby Jaspar]] Jaspar on flute and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most Sam Most]] Most on clarinet. ''The Nutty Squirrels'' were quickly signed by the new Hanover-Signature label, clarinet.

Hanover Records, a label
owned in part by comedian Creator/SteveAllen and producer Bob Thiele. Unfortunately Thiele, picked up the masters to the album were lost creation and issued a single in transit when Allen moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's. A cut from that first album, "''Uh-Oh Part 2''," made it to number 14 in the Hit Parade for the week of December 28, 1959, which is almost exactly one year after "''The Chipmunk Song''" October 1959 featuring "Uh! Oh! (Part 1)" and "Uh! Oh! (Part 2)". Both sides made the same list.

Meanwhile, plans were being made to bring ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' to television. Format Films, producer of ''The Chipmunk'' cartoons, hit a snag during the development stage of the series. After numerous delays and unsuccessful attempts to create visual counterparts of the Chipmunks, Format eventually came up
''Billboard'' "Hot 100" chart, with suitable renditions of Part 1 reaching #45 and Part 2 reaching #19 (and #9 on the characters and farmed out some of the animation work to Jack Kinney Productions. This delay enabled Transfilm-Wylde, a New York-based company specializing in animated commercials, to secure the television rights to R&B Chart). The album itself, titled simply ''The Nutty Squirrels'' characters Squirrels'', was released shorty thereafter; a follow-up single and get an EP featuring other songs from the jump on ''The Chipmunks''. They had album were also issued.

Meanwhile, an animated cartoon series featuring the Chipmunks was in the planning stages, but development was being delayed due to producer Format Films having trouble with the character designs. This delay allowed the Squirrels to beat them to television by a year, with
150 five-minute ''Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons produced by Transfilm-Wylde and syndicated by Flamingo Telefilm Sales ready by September 1960 for syndication by Flamingo Telefilms.

Animator and historian Mark Kausler reported the following:
-> “Fima Noveck, the president of
(''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'', in comparison, premiered on October 4, 1961).

Flamingo Telefilm Sales, Sales had imported a lot of Eastern European, Zagreb, [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Russian]], British, [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] European and [[AsianAnimation Chinese]] Asian cartoons to the U.S. He that they recut most of them to five minutes in length and syndicated them under the Flamingo Films logo to TV stations in the late fifties and early sixties. The package was available in both color and black and white. I saw many of these cartoons in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the ‘''Wrangler's Cartoon Club''’ and ‘''Nutty Squirrels Presents''” programs. Noveck dubbed very ‘kid friendly’ tracks onto most of the cartoons, always using the same into English with "kid friendly" voices for the cute little rabbits, squirrels and foxes in the Creator/Soyuzmultfilm cartoons he imported, and adding voice over ‘Herb Vigran’ type Brooklyn narrators to the (and added narration onto cartoons that were mostly pantomime.”

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pantomime), then sold in a package to TV stations. Instead of going through the trouble of animating a full cartoon, Transfilm-Wylde merely created animated bookends featuring the Nutty Squirrels Presents''''' featured the ''Nutty Squirrels'' (done in newly animated introductions to the foreign cartoons dubbed in English. Unlike their musical recordings, the animated ''Nutty Squirrels'' were a year ahead than ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow the Chipmunks]]''. ''The Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons had a streamlined UPA-like style style) and jazzy backgrounds, but they slapped them onto the preexisting edited foreign cartoons from Flamingo's catalog.

Despite beating the Chipmunks by a year, ''The Nutty Squirrels Present'' cartoons
were a commercial flop. While they were immediately picked up in there was initial interest from major markets, like Chicago's TV stations such as WGN-TV where in Chicago (where they ran six days a week, week in a 9:00-9:25 PM block), some smaller market stations were hesitant to sign on, afraid of their pick them up due to the "radical" jazz content. The stations that did pick content and others simply dumped them up just scattered the cartoons amongst alongside their packages of Terrytoons, Walter Lantz Creator/{{Terrytoons}}, Creator/WalterLantz and other old theatrical cartoons. The cartoon cartoons soon faded from view and by 1964, "The Nutty Squirrels" duo of view, although they have been spotted on the air as late as 1975 (on WSBK-TV in Boston).

On the recording side,
Elliott and Burland disbanded. released a couple of follow-ups: ''Bird Watching'' for Creator/ColumbiaRecords in 1961 and ''The Nutty Squirrels Sing [[Music/TheBeatles A Hard Day's Night]] and Other Smashes'' for MGM in 1964. Besides the Nutty Squirrels, Sascha Burland later went on to write is also known as the 1966 instrumental hit "''No composer of "Sounds", the theme used by ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' from 1957 to 1967, and "No Matter What Shape Your (Your Stomach's In''," which is the famous In)", an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle.

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jingle which became a hit via a cover by the T-Bones in 1965.

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Nutty Squirrels'' are enjoying Squirrels have enjoyed a certain amount of renewed interest of late, thanks due to occasional airplay on the Creator/DrDemento syndicated radio show, show and the inclusion of some of their “Salt Peanuts” song songs in the soundtrack of animated feature movie soundtracks, such as "Salt Peanuts" in ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' and “''Uh! "Uh! Oh! Part 2''” (Part 1)" in a 1998 Creator/JohnWaters movie soundtrack.''Film/{{Pecker}}''.
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-> “Fima Noveck, the president of Flamingo Telefilm Sales, imported a lot of Eastern European, Zagreb, [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Russian]], British, [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] and [[AsianAnimation Chinese]] cartoons to the U.S. He recut most of them to five minutes in length and syndicated them under the Flamingo Films logo to TV stations in the late fifties and early sixties. The package was available in both color and black and white. I saw many of these cartoons in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the ‘''Wrangler's Cartoon Club''’ and ‘''Nutty Squirrels Presents''” programs. Noveck dubbed very ‘kid friendly’ tracks onto most of the cartoons, always using the same voices for the cute little rabbits, squirrels and foxes in the Soyuzmultifilm cartoons he imported, and adding voice over ‘Herb Vigran’ type Brooklyn narrators to the cartoons that were mostly pantomime.”

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-> “Fima Noveck, the president of Flamingo Telefilm Sales, imported a lot of Eastern European, Zagreb, [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Russian]], British, [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] and [[AsianAnimation Chinese]] cartoons to the U.S. He recut most of them to five minutes in length and syndicated them under the Flamingo Films logo to TV stations in the late fifties and early sixties. The package was available in both color and black and white. I saw many of these cartoons in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the ‘''Wrangler's Cartoon Club''’ and ‘''Nutty Squirrels Presents''” programs. Noveck dubbed very ‘kid friendly’ tracks onto most of the cartoons, always using the same voices for the cute little rabbits, squirrels and foxes in the Soyuzmultifilm Creator/Soyuzmultfilm cartoons he imported, and adding voice over ‘Herb Vigran’ type Brooklyn narrators to the cartoons that were mostly pantomime.”
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The story of '''The Nutty Squirrels''' began when jazzman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Elliott Don Elliott]] and TV composer [[http://www.answers.com/topic/sascha-burland Alexander "Sascha" Burland]][[note]]who wrote the original theme for ''Series/WhatsMyLine''[[/note]], amused by ''The Chipmunks'' concept, joined together to record an album in the guise of a hip group of Chipmunk sound-alike rodents. Like Ross Bagdasarian[[note]][[StageName David “Dave” Seville]][[/note]], they recorded their normal singing voices at 16 RPM, then played them back at 33-1/3 rate per minute, giving that unique Chipmunk-sound to the hip scat-singing style Elliott had perfected during his solo work in the early 1950's. Backing Elliott and Burland's altered vocals were some of the best New York session men of the late 1950s, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley]] on sax, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jaspar Bobby Jaspar]] on flute and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most Sam Most]] on clarinet. ''The Nutty Squirrels'' were quickly signed by the new Hanover-Signature label, owned in part by comedian Creator/SteveAllen and producer Bob Thiele. Unfortunately the masters to the album were lost in transit when Allen moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's. A cut from that first album, "''Uh-Oh Part 2''," made it to number 14 in the Hit Parade for the week of December 28, 1959, which is almost exactly one year after "''The Chipmunk Song''" made the same list.

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The story of '''The Nutty Squirrels''' began when jazzman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Elliott Don Elliott]] and TV composer [[http://www.answers.com/topic/sascha-burland Alexander "Sascha" Burland]][[note]]who wrote "Sounds", the original theme for ''Series/WhatsMyLine''[[/note]], ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' used from 1957 to 1965[[/note]], amused by ''The Chipmunks'' concept, joined together to record an album in the guise of a hip group of Chipmunk sound-alike rodents. Like Ross Bagdasarian[[note]][[StageName David “Dave” Seville]][[/note]], they recorded their normal singing voices at 16 RPM, then played them back at 33-1/3 rate per minute, giving that unique Chipmunk-sound to the hip scat-singing style Elliott had perfected during his solo work in the early 1950's. Backing Elliott and Burland's altered vocals were some of the best New York session men of the late 1950s, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley]] on sax, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jaspar Bobby Jaspar]] on flute and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most Sam Most]] on clarinet. ''The Nutty Squirrels'' were quickly signed by the new Hanover-Signature label, owned in part by comedian Creator/SteveAllen and producer Bob Thiele. Unfortunately the masters to the album were lost in transit when Allen moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's. A cut from that first album, "''Uh-Oh Part 2''," made it to number 14 in the Hit Parade for the week of December 28, 1959, which is almost exactly one year after "''The Chipmunk Song''" made the same list.
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'''The Nutty Squirrels''' were a scat singing virtual band formed in imitation of [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] that had a Top 40 hit song “'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh-yejaWO4 Uh-Oh]] ''” in late 1959.

With the success of musical group ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' in the late 1950's spawned numerous imitation recording groups, including ''The Grasshoppers'' and ''The Nutty Squirrels''. While ''The Grasshoppers'' never made it to animated form, the cartoon version of ''The Nutty Squirrels'' actually wound up beating ''The Chipmunks'' to TV by a year.

The story of '''The Nutty Squirrels''' began when jazzman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Elliott Don Elliott]] and TV composer [[http://www.answers.com/topic/sascha-burland Alexander "Sascha" Burland]][[note]]who wrote the original theme for ''Series/WhatsMyLine''[[/note]], amused by ''The Chipmunks'' concept, joined together to record an album in the guise of a hip group of Chipmunk sound-alike rodents. Like Ross Bagdasarian[[note]][[StageName David “Dave” Seville]][[/note]], they recorded their normal singing voices at 16 RPM, then played them back at 33-1/3 rate per minute, giving that unique Chipmunk-sound to the hip scat-singing style Elliott had perfected during his solo work in the early 1950's. Backing Elliott and Burland's altered vocals were some of the best New York session men of the late 1950s, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley]] on sax, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jaspar Bobby Jaspar]] on flute and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most Sam Most]] on clarinet. ''The Nutty Squirrels'' were quickly signed by the new Hanover-Signature label, owned in part by comedian Creator/SteveAllen and producer Bob Thiele. Unfortunately the masters to the album were lost in transit when Allen moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's. A cut from that first album, "''Uh-Oh Part 2''," made it to number 14 in the Hit Parade for the week of December 28, 1959, which is almost exactly one year after "''The Chipmunk Song''" made the same list.

Meanwhile, plans were being made to bring ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' to television. Format Films, producer of ''The Chipmunk'' cartoons, hit a snag during the development stage of the series. After numerous delays and unsuccessful attempts to create visual counterparts of the Chipmunks, Format eventually came up with suitable renditions of the characters and farmed out some of the animation work to Jack Kinney Productions. This delay enabled Transfilm-Wylde, a New York-based company specializing in animated commercials, to secure the television rights to ''The Nutty Squirrels'' characters and get the jump on ''The Chipmunks''. They had 150 five-minute ''Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons ready by September 1960 for syndication by Flamingo Telefilms.

Animator and historian Mark Kausler reported the following:
-> “Fima Noveck, the president of Flamingo Telefilm Sales, imported a lot of Eastern European, Zagreb, [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Russian]], British, [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] and [[AsianAnimation Chinese]] cartoons to the U.S. He recut most of them to five minutes in length and syndicated them under the Flamingo Films logo to TV stations in the late fifties and early sixties. The package was available in both color and black and white. I saw many of these cartoons in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the ‘''Wrangler's Cartoon Club''’ and ‘''Nutty Squirrels Presents''” programs. Noveck dubbed very ‘kid friendly’ tracks onto most of the cartoons, always using the same voices for the cute little rabbits, squirrels and foxes in the Soyuzmultifilm cartoons he imported, and adding voice over ‘Herb Vigran’ type Brooklyn narrators to the cartoons that were mostly pantomime.”

'''''The Nutty Squirrels Presents''''' featured the ''Nutty Squirrels'' in newly animated introductions to the foreign cartoons dubbed in English. Unlike their musical recordings, the animated ''Nutty Squirrels'' were a year ahead than ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow the Chipmunks]]''. ''The Nutty Squirrel'' cartoons had a streamlined UPA-like style and jazzy backgrounds, but they were a commercial flop. While they were immediately picked up in major markets, like Chicago's WGN-TV where they ran six days a week, some smaller market stations were hesitant to sign on, afraid of their "radical" jazz content. The stations that did pick them up just scattered the cartoons amongst their packages of Terrytoons, Walter Lantz and other old theatrical cartoons. The cartoon soon faded from view and by 1964, "The Nutty Squirrels" duo of Elliott and Burland disbanded. Sascha Burland later went on to write the 1966 instrumental hit "''No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In''," which is the famous Alka-Seltzer TV commercial jingle.

''The Nutty Squirrels'' are enjoying a renewed interest of late, thanks to occasional airplay on the Creator/DrDemento syndicated radio show, and the inclusion of their “Salt Peanuts” song in the soundtrack of animated feature ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' and “''Uh! Oh! Part 2''” in a 1998 Creator/JohnWaters movie soundtrack.
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* DuelingShows: ''The Nutty Squirrels Presents'' aired first, then ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' came out a year later.
* FollowTheLeader: To ''Alvin and the Chipmunks''.
* NuttySquirrel: Duh.
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