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

“To yodel, you have to master that flip,” says Leah Daniels, a country singer from rural Ontario, Canada.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020

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

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

But even as he wallows in heartbreak, he still lets loose some yodels and splashy piano in the chorus.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Here, all the cliches are true: the fondue and the yodelling, the pink cows and the magnificent ski slopes.

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