Mike Johnson Yodelin' Song: "Tarzan Did"

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Uploaded by on Mar 2, 2007

Mike Johnson will quickly tell you that he first learned to yodel by imitatiing Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan call. Here on this 8 July 2006 performance, 60-year old Mike's tribute song "Tarzan Did!" says it all. The song is also on the "Mike Johnson Yodeling 40 Years" CD #RCD22-080601, featuring 50 songs written & composed by him.

Mike Johnson is Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler. He's been performing since the mid-1960s, written over 1200 songs, and his Yodel Song Archives, containing 114 yodeling songs written & composed by him are in the Recorded Sound Reference Center's permanent music preservation collection at the Library of Congress.

Mike Johnson music & biography:
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/mikejohnson

Bart Plantenga, yodeling history expert:
http://www.bartplangenga.weebly.com

Mike's "Johnny Weissmueller" comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLM95FH4jPI

National Traditional Country Music Association:
http://www.ntcma.net

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  • Just saw you at Le Mars do this song. Enjoyed your music.

  • Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the festival.

    Mike

  • This is great! Mike, you are truly talented -- and I think yours is the best imitation of a Weissmuller Tarzan yell I've ever personally heard.

  • Thanks. LOL. I had a lot of practice on scores of camping trips and summer camps as a child during the 1950s and early '60s.

  • Nice song! Nice Yodel

    yodelei yodelei ....!!!

    kisses

    Daisy Diamond.

  • Thanks...

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  • Do you ever get up to Canada? I'd love to check you out live - got some friends that would like it too...

  • Thanks Jim.

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