Yodeling Your Blues Away - A Compilation of American and European Yodelers

Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or "chest voice") to the falsetto/head register; making a high-low-high-low sound. This vocal technique is used in many cultures throughout the world.

History:
In Alpine folk music, it was developed in the Central Alps as a method of communication between alpine mountaineers or between alpine villages, with this non-musical multi-pitched "yelling" later becoming part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression.
In Persian classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a yodeling technique that oscillates on neighbor tones.
In Georgian traditional music, yodelling takes the form of krimanchuli technique, and is used as a top part in three/four part polyphony.
In Central Africa, Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing, and the Shona people of Zimbabwe sometimes yodel while playing the mbira. Yodeling is often used in American bluegrass and country music.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word yodel is derived from a German word jodeln (originally Austro-Bavarian language) meaning "to utter the syllable jo"....From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Credits (follow the links provided below to hear these videos in their entirety):

Yodeling with Wylie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5esIZeMfnc

Learn to yodel with Wylie Gustafson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9db9vr94g

Yodeling Fool - Wylie and The Wild West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaoJv-NrEU

Franzl Lang - Einen Jodler hör i gern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rc96joOz8

Angela Wiedl - Country Jodler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8HOC-Q6uwY

The Yodeling Whistler by BOBBEJAAN (Belgian comedian) - Film At the the Drop of a Head, 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QihYcxcJAUw

elton britt - the jimmie rodgers blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ky25y53H6w

Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train Daddy andHome BlueYodel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHulWOZBpk

Yodelling Slim Clark- Yodelling Mad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doUNMfLEI70

Bill Haley - Yodel Your Blues Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGyIjTq2hc

Slim Whitman - Cattle Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhxNbFlY30

Patsy Montana - Cowboys Sweetheart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE2U2j3ZKgA

Leann Rimes Cowboy Sweetheart C M A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkAw4d6yPU

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Yodeling
• Alpine folk music
• Georgian traditional music
• Wylie Gustafson
• Franzl Lang
• Angela Wiedl
• Bobbejaan Schoepen
• Elton Britt
• Jimmie Rodgers
• Yodelling Slim Clark
• Bill Haley
• Slim Whitman
• Patsy Montana
• Leann Rimes

[WarnerMullen]

Slim Clark was a (GREAT YODELER), I have 5 of his LP records i could not get anymore here in Ireland, my partner got his phone number and rang him Slim then sent me a CD called 78s reborn it arrived on my birthday the best gift ever i had from the man himself.

[MistyMountaineers]

My dad Slim named me after Wilf Carter..In the early years ( before his Rock n Roll sucess) as a young man Bill Haley played bass in a few bands that worked on shows with my dad. I have a few old photos.

[MistyMountaineers]

My dad Slim Clark was a pretty good yodeler too...WC.

[mantyme]

Great sample of some of the world's best yodels, thanks for adding all the links! I hope the future of yodeling will be as bright as it's past.