Actual Yodelling in Pop Songs

Cafe Society
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone yodel for real. I looked on the web, but I keep finding things like

Pop star Jewel, while not truly yodeling incorporates the style into her music.

Or the last note of the song “Blue Bayou” by Linda Rondstat is a yodel.

A lot of the information I Google seems to say, it’s close but not really yodeling.

Can someone give me an ACTUAL example of a person TRULY yodeling in pop music.

Also can someone give me a link where I can here a person truly yodeling and not just something like it.

Thanks

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Hokus Pokus by Focus. Brilliant!

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Here is a thread we did about that song a couple months ago.

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Gwen Stefani’s Wind It Up incorporates “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music, yodels and all.

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What about Zombie, by the Cranberries? Dolores O’Riordan is yodeling, or orgasming, or…something in that song, isn’t she?

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Does Hank Williams count as pop music?

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“Joanne”, by Michael Nesmith

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Don’t forget Slim Whitman’s Tennessee Yodel Polka!

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The examples I can think of are in country music:
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The Arizona Yodeler* by the DeZurik Sisters, 1939

Cattle Call, Leann Rimes/Eddy Arnold, 1995

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Does that noise that John Denver makes in Calypso count as yodeling?

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Brian Eno’s early single (when he was just going by his last name) “Seven Deadly Finns” has him yodeling all through the outchorus.

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“Up on Cripple Creek” by the Band features yodeling at the end.

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Good one.

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Sure. Long Gone Lonesome Blues is probably the best example (wait for the chorus).

And Hank Williams was following in the country music tradition of Jimmie Rodgers, whose best remembered song is probably Blue Yodel No 1 (T for Texas).

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Weird Al Yankovic’s “Polka Your Eyes Out” has a brief bit of yodeling at the end of the “Do Me” part of the medley.

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“Night Rider’s Lament”, as sung by Jerry Jeff Walker. I doubt it’s on youtube, but maybe…

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The late Baltimora on “Tarzan Boy”?

Close enough, or not quite? If it’s not quintessential yodeling, the execution of the “oh oh oh” vocals closely approaches a yodel.

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Peter an Lou Berryman sing Double Yodel. He sings the low parts and she does the high ones. It is a yodel split into parts for humor.

Yodeling occurs in a number of polkas.

Warning lots of Yodeling!

3 minutes of yodeling, with some modifications in spots.

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Can’t believe no one’s mentioned She Taught Me How To Yodel by Frank Ifield. He even teaches you how to do it in the song (kinda).