How 'The Chipmunk Song' became an unlikely Christmas megahit

In a year that also produced 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' and 'Run Rudolph Run,' sales of 'The Chipmunk Song' nonetheless shot into the millions before New Year's Day.

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