yodel
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As I crooned “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive” along with Hank Williams, I added a little yodel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Sam: We were like gearing up to send a single to country radio and we did a lot of touring with... do you remember the yodel kid Mason Ramsey?
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2021
“In ‘Passacaglia,’ which was written first, the way the voices stretch past bel canto to belting sounds and the yodel break—those two techniques were the ground floor.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Carol Burnett and her Tarzan yodel returned to series TV for the first time in decades with the recent arrival of Netflix's "A Little Help With Carol Burnett."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2018
When I told my father, he laughed, and she wouldn’t yodel for him.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
He licks, he yodels, he sleeps on a purple pillow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
It can elegantly vault octaves, scoop notes without a croaky glottal fry and crack words into multi-note, velvety yodels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
“It’s a minor masterpiece of country-rock,” wrote AllMusic reviewer Mark Deming, “and while the Eagles may have sold more records, Nesmith yodels a hell of a lot better than any of them.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
Some enterprising souls have created not one but two EDM remixes of Ramsey’s Walmart performance, manipulating his high-pitched yodels so that they conform to a thumping club beat.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2018
He yodels, like one of those Swiss people in a mountain-climbing commercial.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
A rooster, or maybe two, yodeled somewhere out of sight.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
I don’t know anyone else who yodeled and yee-hawed with as much ease, even as he wrote songs titled “Propinquity” and “Grand Ennui.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016
Viewers can fast-forward past the uninspired and insipid theme song “Writing’s on the Wall,” yodeled by Sam Smith over the opening credits that feature a collage of characters menaced by a giant octopus.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
She yodeled for me, and I thought it was marvelous.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Daniels got yodelling from her grandfather, a country and western aficionado who caught the yodelling craze in the 1940s and yodelled all the way to his retirement home.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
Or - as you might know him - the kid who yodelled in a Walmart store.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2019
The trouble was that when she yodelled down the line to us from her studio in Oklahoma, her voice was as crisp and pure as a prairie morning.
From BBC ● May 21, 2013
Inevitably, the Netherlands song also got ditched, as it always is, despite the country fielding a yodelled folk song performed by a fire-loving former talent show contestant in a gigantic native American headdress.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012
Gloriana stepped to the door and yodelled shrilly, but there was no answering trill, save the echo thrown back by the mountain peaks.
From Tabitha's Vacation by Ruth Alberta Brown
Sabrina Carpenter has apologized after sparking backlash for mistaking a Coachella fan’s traditional Arabic cheer for yodeling, which she described as “weird.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Plus, where else would you find rubber chickens, yodeling pickles and windshield wiper blades in one place?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Gene Autry brought his yodeling expertise, along with ballads and cowboy songs, to Richmond and New York around 1930.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
The 13-year-old country singer Mason Ramsey has capitalized well off a recorded Walmart yodeling session.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020
We threw ourselves down on our sleds and, yodeling our delight all the way, flew down the dipping curves, slicing new double-runner tracks.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Daniels got yodelling from her grandfather, a country and western aficionado who caught the yodelling craze in the 1940s and yodelled all the way to his retirement home.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
The idea of yodelling is to flip rapidly between your chest and head voice.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
“If you’re going to work with composers, who are constantly exploring different colors, you should be comfortable yodelling and belting and some sort of throat singing,” he told me.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
He reached number one in the UK singles chart with the 1955 track Rose Marie Slim Whitman, the American country singer known for his yodelling abilities has died at the age of 90.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2013
“My dear fellow, I’ll take up yodelling yet. I really can sing though. That’s the strange part.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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