TARZAN YELL! (super loud)

Tarzan's famous cry could summon animals from the jungle but has little influence over the beasts of European bureaucracy. After a ten-year legal battle the apeman's distinctive yell has been rejected as an EU registered trademark.

With a fortune to be made from ringtones, advertising and computer games, the literary estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author who created Tarzan, is keen to protect the sound. But the EU trademark authority has ruled that, although it is possible to protect sounds that can be represented by musical notes, Tarzan's cry does not qualify.

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The application described the yell as "consisting of five distinct phases, namely sustain, followed by ululation, followed by sustain, but at a higher frequency, followed by ululation, followed by sustain at the starting frequency". It even included a spectrogram of the cry, which dates from the first "talking" Tarzan film starring Johnny Weissmüller.

But the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Trade Marks and Designs) ruled that the graphic did not clearly explain the sound. "It is impossible to recognise from the image as filed whether the sound phenomena depicted therein is a human voice or something else, eg, the tune of violins or bells or a dog's bark," it said. "Nobody would be able to hum the Tarzan yell from the spectrogram and nobody reads spectrograms for entertainment."

Stephen James, a partner in R G C Jenkins & Co, the London-based intellectual-property firm that lodged the application, said: "I have spent the past ten years trying to get Tarzan's yell trademarked but the difficulty has been putting a sound down on paper.

"We say that anybody, from the age of 5 to 105, who heard that sound would say it is Tarzan. There is still a lot of interest from people who want to license the Tarzan name and also to use the yell."

Weissmüller said that his yell had been inspired by yodelling and that he won a yodelling contest as a boy. However, MGM often claimed that its sound department had augmented the actor's shout with various animal sounds. Other legends claim that an operatic tenor was used to record part of the sequence.


Call of the wild

— The first time that Edgar Rice Burroughs refers to Tarzan's yell is when the hero slays Kerchak, leader of the band of Great Apes that had killed his parents

— "Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror. And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes"

— Actors who played Tarzan included Elmo Lincoln, the first screen Tarzan; Johnny Weissmüller, winner of five Olympic swimming gold medals and the first speaking Tarzan in 1932; and Gordon Weschkul, whose 19in biceps got him the role after 200 others had been tested. also Ron Ely played the TV series.

Source: www.imdb.com

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[mcRioRemedy]

what a wanker, i bet it took longer typing that long as description in than that shitty tarzan yell, i really do despair, he musta thought "I KNOW, IL YELL LIKE TARZAN, FILM IT, PUT IT ON YOU FOOL"

Why oh Why?

[davidwaters69]

@mcRioRemedy actually the original johnny weismuller was 2 seconds shorter than mine, and his was possibly recorded using animal sounds and other voices.... im just sayin

[JERRYR708]

Tarzan Tenor

[ldssrrsr]

YOUR ALL W R O N G - BOY'S YELL AND JANE'S YELL AND TARZANS YELL ARE ALL FROM A SINGLE RECORDING - JUST PLAYED AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS. try it - speed-up the tarzan yell a little and you gey "boys" yell -- speed it up a litttle more and you get the "Jane" yell

[royalcourtier]

@davidwaters69 Johnny Weismuller's cry is obviously a human voice - there is no reason to believe it was anything other than Johnny. The fact that he performed the sound live many times is conclusive.

[deniheadmaster]

Since when did Solid Snake yodel??

[DylanForster92]

I turned my speakers all the way down and could still hear it slightly

[iParadisco]

You should sing bro!

[vineyardedge]

Excellent!

[RINGMASTER1118]

Um...well...It's definatly an original video...

[oneminutewithprod]

@1Rachelzz prove it then :)

[1Rachelzz]

I can do tht 2!!!

[BholeViolater]

Hahahahahahahahaha DUMBASS!