hey, yodel fans

Subject: hey, yodel fans
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 10:33 PM

I have to share some of the most beautiful yodeling I have ever heard. Where is a Swiss mountainside when you need one?

mockingbird yodel

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 12:01 AM

I am not usually a fan of yodelling,but she is amazing. thank you for sharing.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: clueless don
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 08:22 AM

When I think of young yodelers, I think of this:

on America's Got Talent

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 08:30 AM

Not a particular fan of yodeling but I recall hearing a fieldrecording made on a Swiss mountainside of some fine yodeling, right in the middle of it there was a tremendous clap of thunder. The Shepherd being recorded never missed a beat, brilliant.

Couldn't immediately find a copy but worth hearing.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 05:50 PM

Thank you for those links. I enjoyed listening to these performers and others that those led to.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 09:19 PM

Hi, Don. Thanks for the link to Taylor Ware. She's delightful.

As for Angela, I don't think she made that recording at the age shown in the picture. I believe the photo is just a publicity picture from somewhere.

However, that may turn out, her voice is the first voice I have ever heard which can be described as crystalline. And the lyrics are good; so many yodel songs have dumb lyrics, but not this one.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 02:23 PM

Hi, Chanteylass. Were you new to yodeling? Once you go on YouTube and start following the yodel trail, you come upon a great variety of things - yodelling cowboys, yodelling Swiss maidens, yodelling choirs and yodelling clowns.

I enjou it all - except sometimes the clownish yodelling gets downright corny and I turn it off.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 08:31 PM

Leeneia, I have enjoyed hearing yodeling for many years. Western music didn't get much play in RI when I was growing up, but once in a while it could be heard on a variety show. One of the original Mickey Mouse Club Museketeers, Darlene Gillespie, occasionally yodelled on that show. (I liked Annette but liked Darlene more, but I guess Walt Disney disagreed with me). As I began listening to folk music, I heard yodellers from other parts of the world. I still don't hear it very often, but last night I had fun clicking on one YouTube video after another. At times like that, YouTube really is a rabbit hole!

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 04:03 PM

I agree.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 04:10 PM

Darlene yodeling at 5:00


darlene

She's good. Came from Canada.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 07:21 AM

Not many people know that, sometime before he started playing rock'n roll, Bill Haley was a champion yodeller of the USA...

Whodathunkit.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 02:25 PM

Leenia, thank you for that link! Of course I went down the rabbit hole again, looking at her other videos.

Will Fly, I had no idea about Bill Haley. I'm going to try to avoid falling down another rabbit hole by looking for his videos!

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 06:06 PM

Uh-oh! I'm pretty sure now that that's not Darlene yodeling even though it's the segment I remembered--or misremembered. When I first viewed it, I thought her face looked different but decided it was because her hair was loose instead of in braids. I went back to the video today and clicked on the tiny triangle to see more information and noticed the name of a guest star, Roberta Shore. I googled her name and read that Roberta did the yodeling for the It's a Small World ride at the Disney parks! Now I wonder if I ever heard Darlene yodel.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 05:44 PM

Hehe I'm luring you down the rabbit hole with a link to Bill Haley yodelling


yodeler's lullaby

It's a good song for a beginning yodeler.

Thanks for the info about Darlene and Roberta.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 18 Sep 17 - 06:06 PM

Love the Bill Haley... Then there is Gene. autry doing Blueberry Hill! Great stuff, thanks for this thread. I am really enjoying it.

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: Will Fly
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 03:32 AM

Tee hee - down the rabbit hole you go - don't forget the kid gloves...

Subject: RE: hey, yodel fans
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 05:25 AM

Excellent! Check out also on You Tube A young country Singer named Emi Sunshine, mainly a singer but incorporates some very good yodelling too