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
These days you can imagine a video of one of these performances going viral à la Mason Ramsey’s famous Walmart yodel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“No one culture can say, ‘We are the yodelling culture,’ ” he says.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
“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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