In 2000 he received a lifetime "Heritage" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he and his band played at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as entertainment in theaters and music halls. In Central Africa, Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing, and the Shona people of Zimbabwe sometimes yodel while playing the mbira.

Perhaps Jimmie even saw Charles Anderson himself perform, or heard some of Anderson's crystalline blues and yodeling 78s, before rising to immortality on his own great 'Blue Yodel' recordings. In 1949, Hank Williams recorded his first hit song " Lovesick Blues", first recorded by Emmett Miller in 1928. A good recording of Kimbrough and Holmes singing "Wayward Girl Blues" (1924) is available on YouTube.My children love the Screaming Pickle, although it doesn’t elicit the same level of laughter as the Yodeling Pickle. Within a few days, videos of his performance collectively garnered over 25million views and he became a viral sensation and Internet meme. In 1853, Christy's Minstrels burlesqued (parodied) the Hutchinson Family singing 'We Come From the Hills With Tyrolean Echo'. The multi-pitched "yelling" later became part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression. Jazz singer Leon Thomas, best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, particularly the 1969 song "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Sanders's Karma album, was known to break out into yodeling in the middle of a vocal.

In Spain, the band El Pony Pisador uses yodel mixed with Irish music and bluegrass to create new sonorities. As an imitator, Anderson has the best on the market skinned, his violin imitation intermezzo went big, and was one of the best imitations of a musical instrument heard in this neck of the woods for many moons. In a sketch that aired on the TV " Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," the actor Brad Pitt and Jimmy Fallon engaged in a yodeling conversation atop New York City skyscrapers. One of the earliest songs to portray an unusual marriage between yodeling and rock music was " Hocus Pocus" by the Dutch band Focus released in 1971.Blue yodeler Cliff Carlisle was one of the most prolific recording artists of the 1930s, and a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music.