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Betts, Stephen L. (28 July 2008). "Jewel Introduces Fans to Lost Art of Yodeling". The Boot . Retrieved 24 September 2012. Apart from the Alps, yodeling can be found in the Solomon Islands, Hawaii, Madagascar, the US, Romania, Bulgaria, and Africa. [12]

Solie, Ruth A. (1993). Musicology and difference: Gender and sexuality in music scholarship. p.117. The DeZurik Sisters were two of the first women to become stars on both the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry, largely a result of their original yodeling style.The first musical recordings were made on wax cylinders, simply known as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (1896–1915). These hollow cylindrical objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface, which could be reproduced when played on a mechanical cylinder phonograph. Entertainer J.K. Emmet (1841–91) was probably the most well-known yodeler of his time. He did make recordings but died before the recording industry was firmly established. Many future yodelers recorded songs he had either written or made popular, including "Sleep, Baby, Sleep". In the 1910s, the competing disc record system triumphed in the marketplace to become the dominant commercial audio medium. Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon et al. (2017), "What Vowels Can Tell Us about the Evolution of Music", PMID: 29018371, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01581 ( pdf)

Bobbejaan Schoepen was an extremely accomplished, successful, and versatile Belgian entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler. In 1948, "De Jodelende Fluiter" ("The Yodeling Whistler") was Schoepen's first hit. In 1953, he was one of the first Europeans to appear at the "Grand Ole Opry" in the United States. [94] Outside of regional Volksmusic, Karl Denver was a Scottish singer who had a series of yodel-based hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 version of " Wimoweh". Cattle Call: from Tex Owens to People Like Us". Mademoisellemontana.wordpress.com. Mademoiselle Montana's Yodel Heaven. 13 April 2009. a b Malan, Rian (May 25, 2000). "Where does the lion sleep tonight?". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 15, 2001 – via 3rdearmusic.com. Originally published as, "In the Jungle". Charles Anderson began touring with a vaudeville show in 1909, singing a combination of blues and yodeling. [33] A 1913 St.Louis review reports: Music historian Timothy Wise writes that it was the mass media of the time; radio, phonograph, and film, that spread the romantic myth of the cowboy and "popular music was integral to the mass mediation of the idea and of the representation of the cowboy, and yodeling was one of its primary signifiers." [9] The transformation of Rodgers' blue yodel to the cowboy yodel involved a change in both rhythm and a move away from Southern blues-type lyrics. Some yodels contained more of the Alpine type of yodel as well. Roy Rogers, singing with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1934, sings to a "sweet Tyrolean maid" in "A Swiss Yodel".Sometimes, the only thing we can do is to let the person know we are available to help, should anything arise. In the meantime, we pray and hope and hold that person close to our heart. Country Singles". Library and Archives Canada. 12 April 1965. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Top 20 Cowboy & Cowgirl Songs". Great American Country. Scripps Networks Interactive . Retrieved 11 January 2015. See video #18 of 20 Country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough, billed as The Kansas City Butterball (she was a rather large woman), sang in speakeasies and nightclubs. Kimbrough recorded her music from 1924 through 1929 and is now best known for her collaborations with Winston Holmes. Holmes supplied a series of yodels, vocalized bird calls and train whistles on some of their recordings. A good recording of Kimbrough and Holmes singing "Wayward Girl Blues" (1924) is available on YouTube. [34] The similarity to the Jimmie Rodgers Blue Yodels is evident in this Kimbrough recording. [ citation needed]

The transformation of Rodgers' blue yodel to the cowboy yodel involved a change in both rhythm and a move away from Southern blues-type lyrics. Some yodels contained more of the Alpine type of yodel as well. Most famous of the singing cowboy film stars were Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, both accomplished yodelers. The popularity of yodeling lasted through the 1940s, but by the 1950s it became rare to hear yodeling in country and western music. [6] History of Alpine yodeling [ edit ] Technically, yodelling can be described as singing with melodious, inarticulate sounds and frequent changes between falsetto and the normal voice. [23] You used to think you were so clever and entertaining when you would sing “Ice Ice Baby” by the venerable Rob “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkle at karaoke.When a solo yodeler starts to sing a slow sequence of notes, the other yodelers hum along with the appropriate tone, and provide a spontaneous melody – resulting in natural yodel singing. In this primitive way, in the various mountain regions of Switzerland, one-to five-part yodeling songs are sung without words. In the Muota Valley, the "Jüüzli" is sung with two or three voices, while the Appenzell "Zäuerli" and "Ruggusserli" are polyphonic natural yodels that are often spontaneously improvised. During festivals and special occasions polyphonic natural yodels are often accompanied by talerschwingen or bell shaking (small Alpine bells). What makes the natural tones of the natural yodel so special is the eleventh tone, the natural tone, or alphorn Fa. This unique tone in C major is neither heard as "F" nor as "F sharp" but is somewhere in between. For many people, this "Fa" can be hard to get used to because since the 18th century, when "well-tempered" tuning was introduced, this sound has disappeared from the usual tone series. According to Bart Plantenga, author of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, "...unlikely yodellers include the Muppets (with, of course, special guest Julie Andrews), Shakira, Goofy, Bill Murray (remember Charlie's Angels?), Gene Wilder (who was taught to yodel by Rough Guide contributor and yodel legend Kenny Roberts), and South Korea's former Miss World Ji-Yea Park." [85] [86] a b c d Wise, Timothy. From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale: American yodeling on early recordings (PDF). Manchester, UK: University of Salford. doi: 10.1002/batt.201800148 . Retrieved 7 April 2018. Janet McBride grew up in Maine where she began to yodel while still a child. She continued to sing and record, writing some of her own music, for over 40years. She has toured in the U.S. and in Austria. McBride was awarded Western Music Association’s Female Yodeler of the Year in 1991. [80] First, let me state for the record that I loathe toys with batteries, especially those that make noise. My friends and family can attest to this fact. Few such toys make it through our doors. Those that do rarely have their batteries replaced once they run dry. And, more often, the batteries mysteriously disappear, if you catch my drift (Shhh!!).

Other western music yodeling singers include Douglas B. Green (Ranger Doug) [59] and Wylie Gustafson. Green sings with his band Riders in the Sky. [60] He is also a music historian and has written a book, Singing in the Saddle, described as "the first comprehensive look at the singing cowboy phenomenon that swept the United States in the 1930s." Gustafson learned to yodel from his dad, who learned from Austrians on the ski team in Bozeman, Montana. In 2007, he released an instructional book and CD. [61] Cowgirl yodelers [ edit ] Carolyn and Mary Jane Dezurik, 1940 Jimmie Rodgers' Life & Time. University of Illinois Press. 1992. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Evans, David (2 January 2008). Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09112-4 . Retrieved 24 September 2012– via Google Books.Ling, Jan (1997). A History of European Folk Music. University Rochester Press. p.32. ISBN 978-1-878822-77-2. Don Edwards Music "Man and his music". Archived from the original on 6 February 2007 . Retrieved 28 December 2006. Horse-trot beat demonstrated by Elvis Presley singing Lonesome Cowboy. and by Slim Whitman singing That's How the Yodel Was Born. . a b c d Plantenga, Bart (2013). Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p.204. ISBN 978-0-299-29054-2. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020.