# album recommendations for a forgotten musical genre **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128 "2001-12-05T23:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/1 "2001-12-05T23:52:09Z")
First of all - anyone that comes in this thread and makes fun of the subject matter is going to get their clock cleaned. With that being said: Can anyone recommend an item (currently available) that contains some good examples of cowboy yodeling? I have heard some CDs where on one of the tracks there will be a yodeling tune, but I would like to get an album that has several songs with that unique vocal exercise, or even better, a whole album dedicated to that fine form of music. Would you suggest any one particular collection by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and/or The Sons of the Pioneers as being especially filled with yodeling tunes? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/2 "2001-12-06T00:00:54Z")
Well, [here’s](http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=VAR62712) a place to start. ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/3 "2001-12-06T00:06:00Z")
This is the best I could come up with. [yodelling](http://www.klang-records.co.uk/yodel/american_yod.htm) I’m guessing that shipping will be spendy though. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/4 "2001-12-06T00:17:35Z")
Why, pardner you’d be after **Yodel the Cowboy Way** by Riders in the Sky. ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/5 "2001-12-06T04:02:52Z")
dumping bag of dirty clocks on floor 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/6 "2001-12-06T04:15:11Z")
Just so you know, yodelling makes my cat put her ears back and bolt out of the room. I first saw this when I was watching “Raising Arizona”, and my cat bolted when the yodelling theme song started up. Fun for everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/7 "2001-12-06T05:51:24Z")
Are you looking for Jimmie Rodgers-style blue yodels or the Swiss variety? Rodgers yodeled on nearly every song he sang. Harmony yodeling was the Sons of the Pioneers’ trademark, and they used it a lot. Some of the greatest virtuoso yodeling I have ever heard is on Kenny Robert’s version of “She Taught Me How to Yodel,” a song that was also recorded by Frank Ifield. “Chime Bells,” recorded by Roberts as well as Elton Britt and many others, is another yodeling classic. I haven’t seen a collection devoted solely to yodeling, but any anthology of recordings by one of the above artists (with the exception of Frank Ifield–he didn’t yodel very often) would have at least a few great ones. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/8 "2001-12-06T14:01:15Z")
Randy Erwin Wylie & The Wild West Don Walser (The Pavarotti of the Plains) ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/9 "2001-12-06T14:37:23Z")
Not cowboys, but identical twin lesbian Kiwis: [The Topp Twins](http://www.topptwins.co.nz/topp_intro.asp). Funny, weird and good. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_O.Pinion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/839c29/32.png) [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/10 "2001-12-06T18:03:16Z")
Oh, man! You won’t believe “Chime Bells” when you hear it! Listen to how long he holds that high note at the end, it’s almost unnatural! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/11 "2001-12-06T22:56:35Z")
I thought for sure, from the thread title, this was going to be about Polka. In which case my answer would be Brave Combo’s Grammy-winning Polkasonic. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-recommendations-for-a-forgotten-musical-genre/97128/12 "2001-12-07T00:09:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\*Why, pardner you’d be after **Yodel the Cowboy Way** by Riders in the Sky. \*\* Oh, indeed and their classic crowd-pleasing performance of **That’s How the Yodel Was Born** leaves not a dry eye in any auditorium or supermarket parking lot in which it has been performed. There’s a _reason_ why Ranger Doug is “The Idol of American Youth”