After the success of Pinky & Perky and Alvin & The Chipmunks, there were a large number of copycat albums, which featured sped-up vocals of animal characters as well. These groups included The Grasshoppers, The Penguins, The Nutty Squirrels, The Happy Hamsters, The Panda Bears, Santa’s Elves, Harvey The Singing Hamster, The 3 Little Pixies and The Busy Beavers
Happy Time Records was a division of the Pickwick International Corporation, and it issued children’s records exclusively. International Award Series Records was a division of the K.M. (Keel manufacturing) Corporation, which originally was in Freeport, Long Island, New York. KM was Pickwick’s manufacturing arm. In the mid-1960s they released a series of records by their own knock-off version of The Chipmunks, with an album called Christmas With The Happy Crickets. There were two releases of the album - the International Award Series AKX-9 and the Grand Prix Series KX-9. There apparently is no difference between them other than the cover art. The Happy Crickets are the worst attempt at cashing in on the singing animal phenomenon that I have ever heard - the singing is terrible, even when sped up, and the arrangements sound like they were slapped together by a committee of drunks. The song “Christmas Is For The Family” is definitely one of the most annoying songs I have ever heard,or ever care to hear.
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