yodel
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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
“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
Once she told me that she liked to yodel and that she had done so as a child.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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
“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
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
“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
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
Penrod yodelled a response; and Mr. Samuel Williams appeared, a large bundle under his arm.
From Penrod by Booth Tarkington
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
That the two later did another version with Mason Ramsey, known on the internet as the Walmart yodeling kid, shows how deeply Lil Nas X understands his place in pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
Ranger Doug Green, who sings lead and baritone in addition to world-class yodeling, is playfully billed as the “Idol of American Youth.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
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
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
The idea of yodelling is to flip rapidly between your chest and head voice.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
He also incorporated unexpected elements: non-Western instruments, yodelling by the sui generis vocalist Leon Thomas.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2020
“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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