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
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 ● Apr. 26, 2023
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
When I told my father, he laughed, and she wouldn’t yodel for him.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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
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
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 Beyerlein, Franz
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
The 13-year-old country singer Mason Ramsey has capitalized well off a recorded Walmart yodeling session.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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
The idea of yodelling is to flip rapidly between your chest and head voice.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
“No one culture can say, ‘We are the yodelling culture,’ ” he says.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
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
“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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