Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop

Subject: Good yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: GUEST,Ari
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 12:05 PM

I'm looking for a good yodeling song or two to teach in a yodeling workshop. I've been teaching workshops for years, but I've been using the same songs, and I want to add some variety.

Things I'm looking for in a song:
-Something fun to sing and listen to.
-Short verses so there's not too much delay between yodels
-Yodels that are simple enough to teach beginners, or can be simplified.

So far I've been using "Old Chisolm Trail" with a simple yodel between each verse, and a simplified yodel on Kenny Robert's "Just a Yodel for Me", if that gives you a sense of some songs that work well.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: GUEST,Kenny B
Date: 04 Feb 19 - 06:26 PM

An relatively easy one Jimmy Rodgers - Waitin for a Train

For more advanced Pete Seeger - Way out there

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 05 Feb 19 - 06:30 AM

Maggie Gee does a song which allows the audience to join in the chorus and unwittingly Yodel.
Older Ladies, Older Ladies, Older Ladies

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Feb 19 - 10:59 AM

There are easy yodels and advanced yodels, and most of the recordings we hear are advanced yodels.

I do an easy yodel from a folksong I learned in elementary school. One is pretty well-known. Maybe you know it.

OH, I go to Peter's fountain, and what do I hear?
From the misty swamp far-away, cuckoo calling so clear.

Hy ly rah.

Hol di ra, hol di ra, hol di ra cuckoo [3 times]
Hol di ra, hy ly rah o!

2. "Tween Easter and Whitsuntide all the snow melts away.
Then my girl goes and marries, leaving me in dismay.
Repeat yodel
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On that yodel, I moved the high note to the 2nd 'di'. It sounds more Swiss. The last hy ly rah glides down, doesn't step down.

Whitsuntide is Pentecost.

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: open mike
Date: 07 Feb 19 - 03:38 PM

Night Rider's Lament is the one I do that contains a yodel... in the chorus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhQUiYKfTzQ

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer do one that is a tutorial of sorts..
i can not find it right now but i think it has a part in it called little old lady who? it contains a glottal stop exercise....good for first time yodellers....it is probably called the Yodel Lesson... might be on their kids' album...it might be on "Grandma Slid Down the Mountain"

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Feb 19 - 04:11 PM

That's a great suggestion, Open Mike. I listened to the song on YouTube, and I like it.

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 12:33 AM

Isn't it irritating when people ask for help and don't come back for the answers?

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 05:38 PM

the best i have heard is Bill Haley

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: GUEST,Kenny B
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 06:30 PM

I agree Sandman , but Bill Haley was a guy who had the ability to move on as music changed and/or progressed.

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Feb 19 - 02:30 AM

Bill Monroe's ' Muleskinner Blues '

Dave H

Subject: RE: Good Yodeling songs for a yodel workshop
From: GUEST,Ari
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 03:07 PM

Thanks so much for the suggestions everyone, I had a great time listening to them! I think I'll aim for a Bill Haley song for a workshop soon. What a yodeler!