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
These days you can imagine a video of one of these performances going viral à la Mason Ramsey’s famous Walmart yodel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
Spector’s signature, soaring woah-oah-oahs were inspired early on by attempts to yodel like Hank Williams with her grandmother.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019
But this time it was more of a yodel than a groan.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
She continued: “Now i know what a Zaghrouta is! I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
He licks, he yodels, he sleeps on a purple pillow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
On his fourth album, “Twelve Carat Toothache,” the 26-year-old musician returns with more sorrowful yodels from the basement of the gilded mansion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
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
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
“Oh, Alessandro, Alessandro,” she yodeled, a shameless cue for Alessandro Michele, the Gucci creative director.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
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
They yodeled any strange thing as loud as they could, and the next day everyone came to work with sore throats.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
He got as red as ham And yodelled through his apopleptic face, "I think you're dips!"
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Irwin, Wallace
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
His early influences included DeFord Bailey, a black harmonica player who performed on the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s, and yodeling country singer Jimmie Rodgers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2018
He had no doubt been out courting Matilda, Mr. Gates’s bluetick hound, she of the unique yodeling cry that could be heard all over town.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
“He had this real knack for entertaining people,” she says, “and when you’re yodelling, you’re definitely entertaining people.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
For all their delight at being pitted against Switzerland, Northern Ireland fans will be aware their Swiss counterparts will also have been yodelling with delight at the draw.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017
“The only time I really feel like yodelling is either very late at night or very early in the morning,” he says.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2014
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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