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Jessie also has a big heart and bigger spirit and can yodel when she isn’t ruminating on her abandonment issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

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

Musically, she showed uncommon adventurousness as well, singing everything from yodels and cowboy tunes to gospel standards, mambos, and torch ballads.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 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

While working his way through Wagner College on Staten Island and St. John’s University in Queens, he later told his daughter, he yodeled in a country-western band.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012

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

Then he laid it down again, and once more he yodelled gaily: "Holdrio--yoho--yoho--hoho--o--o!"

From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein

Plus, where else would you find rubber chickens, yodeling pickles and windshield wiper blades in one place?

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

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

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 drank large draughts of his wine and ran about everywhere like a wild animal, shouting and yodeling.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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 said Mr Clarke was "like a second dad to him", who will be "remembered for his kindness and loving towards people, his crazy moves on the dance floor and his yodelling".

From BBC ● May 21, 2021

“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

Onward and Upward with the Arts Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music From death metal to throat singing to alpine yodelling, the experimental group is changing what it means to harmonize.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 26, 2019

“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