When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk

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When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk
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ReleasedOctober 31, 1995
Recorded1995
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Label Sony Wonder
Chipmunk Records
Epic Records
Producer Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
Alvin and the Chipmunks chronology
A Very Merry Chipmunk
(1994)
When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk
(1995)
Club Chipmunk: The Dance Mixes
(1996)
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When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk is a 1995 music album by Alvin and the Chipmunks , released by Sony Wonder, and contains 10 tracks. [2]

The album features the Chipmunks and Chipettes singing Disney songs. A footnote on the back of the CD case stated that The Walt Disney Company neither sponsored nor endorsed the album. However, coincidentally, the home entertainment division Buena Vista Home Video (currently known as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) had released several Chipmunks cartoons on home video in the early and mid-1990s.

Track listing

  1. "Hakuna Matata" (from The Lion King ) - The Chipmunks
  2. "I've Got No Strings" (from Pinocchio ) - The Chipmunks and The Chipettes
  3. "Friend Like Me" (from Aladdin ) - The Chipmunks
  4. "Kiss the Girl" (from The Little Mermaid ) - The Chipmunks and The Chipettes
  5. "Colors of the Wind" (from Pocahontas ) - The Chipettes
  6. "Be Our Guest" (from Beauty and the Beast ) - The Chipmunks and The Chipettes
  7. "He's a Tramp" (from Lady and the Tramp ) - The Chipettes
  8. "The Three Caballeros" (from The Three Caballeros ) - The Chipmunks
  9. "Under the Sea" (from The Little Mermaid ) - The Chipmunks
  10. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (from Pinocchio ) - The Chipmunks and The Chipettes

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "When You Wish Upon A Chipmunk - Alvin and the Chipmunks". Archived from the original on 2014-05-13.