answers: 1958
context: (as Seville) insisted that it was not technically a Chipmunks song in a second version from the 1960 Chipmunks album "Sing Again with the Chipmunks" (which was later re-released in a musical segment of an episode of "The Alvin Show") when he says to the Chipmunks (when they request to sing the song) "I don't know, fellas, I made that record once!", to which Alvin responds "Yeah, but not with us! Come on!" The first true song by the "group" was "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)." The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Top 100, the </s> into the spotlight. Guitarist and founding member Tom Johnston sang the lead vocal, after returning from years of being out of the band after Michael McDonald took over in the mid-1970s. Johnston told Songfacts that he wrote the bulk of the song before the band re-formed when he was in a band called Border Patrol. The Doctor (The Doobie Brothers song) "The Doctor" is a hit single released by The Doobie Brothers on their 1989 studio effort, "Cycles". The song, so far, is the last hit single that the band has released; it reached the number 1 spot on the </s> Joe South Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden". South started his pop career in July 1958 with the NRC Records novelty hit "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor". After this hit, South's music grew increasingly serious. In 1959, South wrote two songs which were recorded by Gene Vincent: "I Might
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