yodel

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

She learned her yodel from her dad, a country music fan, and there were church influences, too.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2018

Now came a roll call on the old monotone, with a break of register, a yodel, on the final syllable.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

“Old Jerry Lee should have been that kind of fool,” he yodels, after explaining that he’s incorrigible; years later, he’d sing it with Keith Richards.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

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

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

And then some of them sang some Alpine songs and yodelled till the hills echoed.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Eden Paul

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

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

I swear I can hear Snow White yodeling that lovely song she does somewhere off in the distance.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

Luasa is the first university in Switzerland to unveil a yodelling degree.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2018

Then they stand in circles yodelling and ringing their cowbells.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015

“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

“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