yodel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During a recent rehearsal in Tbilisi, the Ensemble Basiani practiced a traditional Gurian piece, a wild, multilayered, partially improvised song during which one singer yodeled with enthusiastic abandon.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2010

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

I put all I knew into it this time, and yodelled away till the audience left their beer-glasses untouched on the tables—and that's saying a good deal with a crowd like that.

From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

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

Sire had its first hit in 1973 with “Hocus Pocus,” a yodeling rock novelty track by the Dutch band Focus.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 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 yeehaw king himself Lil Nas X performed “Old Town Road” along with a myriad of special guests, including Billy Ray Cyrus, BTS, Mason “Walmart yodeling kid” Ramsey and Diplo and Young Thug.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2020

It was Matilda, sounding her unique yodeling call.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

In the "official" chart, Please, Please Me was denied the top spot by yodelling crooner Frank Ifield and his song Wayward Wind.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022

He also incorporated unexpected elements: non-Western instruments, yodelling by the sui generis vocalist Leon Thomas.

From The New Yorker ● 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

Then they stand in circles yodelling and ringing their cowbells.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015

“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