# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/21 "2008-08-16T18:15:50Z")
Did somebody say [80’s style yodeling?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6IlIXT2oo&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/22 "2008-08-16T18:20:44Z")
There’s a little bit of yodeling in this rap song beat called “Cuttin’” by Mike Jones. I’ve posted a few links of it below: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVMm-zsg5Lk) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tueE0DwfLDg/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Jones - Cuttin (Remix)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tueE0DwfLDg) Strangely, the yodeling doesn’t sound too out-of-place. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/23 "2008-08-18T01:47:43Z")
Nice-n-timely: Today riding down from the Virginny mountains, I was listening to _Countrypolitan_,by Southern Culture on the Skids, and the song “Wolverton Mountain”, a redo of Claude King’s 1962 #6 on the pop charts, features a nice “Ay-eee-oooo” yodel chorus. That album is pretty new( you can listen at [scots.com](http://scots.com)), but the song has been covered before, by Hank Jr, and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band— but it had me yodelling and wondering about yodels, too. Don’t know if you saw these two links, KSRO: [Will There Be Yodelling In Heaven?](http://www.wfmu.org/~bart/yodel.html), an older article with songlist, well worth reading. [Yodel Course](http://www.yodelcourse.com/), with ten levels of learning, several file versions available. I’ve bookmarked it. Hope it helps ya. This morning I climbed straight up on one of the Blue Ridge peaks… Yodeee-ohhhh-huiii-deee !!! ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/24 "2008-08-18T05:37:00Z")
One of my favorite songs, “Change His Ways” (1988 or 1989) by Robert Palmer, features a couple of stretches where Palmer breaks out into honest-to-God yodeling. The song is on the album _Heavy Nova_, the same record that contains the mega-hit “Simply Irresistible.” ---
**Author:** ![unstrung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a698b9/32.png) [@unstrung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unstrung)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/25 "2008-08-18T09:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] [Yodel Course](http://www.yodelcourse.com/), with ten levels of learning, several file versions available. I’ve bookmarked it. Hope it helps ya. [/QUOTE] I was gonna post a separate thread asking someone to teach me to yodel, but apparently there is no need 😉 Too cool. I am nowhere near level 10, but someday… someday [insert angry shaking fist for no real reason here]. Seriously, that site is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936/26 "2008-08-18T10:52:54Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] 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). [/QUOTE] I should add that yodeling was a bit of a trademark for Jimmie Rodgers (that, and making a train whistle sound with his voice). Most of his songs feature yodeling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-yodelling-in-pop-songs/459936.md?page=1)