# Actual Yodelling in Pop Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936 "2008-08-14T03:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KRSOradio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/0ea827/32.png) [@KRSOradio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRSOradio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/1 "2008-08-14T03:14:51Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/2 "2008-08-14T03:24:11Z")
[Hokus Pokus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U) by Focus. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/3 "2008-08-14T03:38:40Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470163) is a thread we did about that song a couple months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/4 "2008-08-14T03:39:48Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oLI4lEv6hA) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQH0fIMkqFc) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8-OpC8OVoPE/hqdefault.jpg "Double Yodel by Lou and Peter Berryman") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OpC8OVoPE) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/5 "2008-08-14T04:07:32Z")
Gwen Stefani’s [Wind It Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHtkWyNvgU&feature=related) incorporates “The Lonely Goatherd” from _The Sound of Music_, yodels and all. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/6 "2008-08-14T04:26:43Z")
What about Zombie, by the Cranberries? Dolores O’Riordan is yodeling, or orgasming, or…something in that song, isn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/7 "2008-08-14T04:31:06Z")
Does Hank Williams count as pop music? ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/8 "2008-08-14T04:52:35Z")
“Joanne”, by Michael Nesmith ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/9 "2008-08-14T05:02:15Z")
Don’t forget Slim Whitman’s [Tennessee Yodel Polka](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k06QUjRyvjI&feature=related)! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/10 "2008-08-14T05:07:13Z")
The examples I can think of are in country music: \* The Arizona Yodeler\* by the DeZurik Sisters, 1939 _Cattle Call_, Leann Rimes/Eddy Arnold, 1995 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/11 "2008-08-14T15:53:28Z")
Does that noise that John Denver makes in _Calypso_ count as yodeling? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/12 "2008-08-14T16:28:00Z")
Brian Eno’s early single (when he was just going by his last name) “Seven Deadly Finns” has him yodeling all through the outchorus. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/13 "2008-08-14T17:56:07Z")
“Up on Cripple Creek” by the Band features yodeling at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/14 "2008-08-14T18:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=Labdad] “Up on Cripple Creek” by the Band features yodeling at the end. [/QUOTE] Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/15 "2008-08-14T18:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Does Hank Williams count as pop music? [/QUOTE] Sure. [Long Gone Lonesome Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JczEyQHBLEw) 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)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/16 "2008-08-14T21:31:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/17 "2008-08-14T21:43:27Z")
“Night Rider’s Lament”, as sung by Jerry Jeff Walker. I doubt it’s on youtube, but maybe… ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/18 "2008-08-14T21:56:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/19 "2008-08-14T22:45:08Z")
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.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny651CDikVc&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/20 "2008-08-15T00:12:22Z")
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned [She Taught Me How To Yodel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqORTeW01m0) by Frank Ifield. He even teaches you how to do it in the song (kinda). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936.md?page=2)