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

The rebuke became her calling card, like Frank Ifield’s yodel or Tommy Cooper’s fez.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2017

Teetering back as if on the edge of the swimming pool: comic yodel, windmilling arms.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

I could feel the tempo, how he would have sung it, where he might have yodeled.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011

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

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

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 had no doubt been out courting Matilda, Mr. Gates’s bluetick hound, she of the unique yodeling cry that could be heard all over town.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

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

“If you’re going to work with composers, who are constantly exploring different colors, you should be comfortable yodelling and belting and some sort of throat singing,” he told me.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

Then they stand in circles yodelling and ringing their cowbells.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015

“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