Thompson, Chad L. (Fall 1996). "Yodeling of the Indiana Swiss Amish". Anthropological Linguistics. 38 (3): 495–520. When sound films first became available in the 1930s the industry began to turn out numerous films to meet the nation's fascination with the American cowboy. The singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by many of the B-movies of the 1930s and 1940s. [5] Solie, Ruth A. (1993). Musicology and difference: Gender and sexuality in music scholarship. p.117.

Bart Plantenga, author of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, explains the technique:Keith Howard (2004). "Review: Recording Review Essay—Evoking Siberian Shamanism". The World of Music Vol. 46, No. 2, Japanese Musical Traditions (2004), p.172 a b "Jimmie Rodgers & Louis Armstrong: Blue Yodel #9". Jazz.com. Archived from the original on 2011-04-15 . Retrieved 2012-04-09. Country Singles". Library and Archives Canada. 12 April 1965. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Inside The Music Industry – Chronology – Technology and the Music Industry | The Way The Music Died | FRONTLINE". PBS . Retrieved 24 September 2012.

This mean, green, yodelling machine is not only a great novelty gift it is also great fun too. The ideal way to bring a smile to anyone’s face. Although today's idea of the life and times of cowboys may not be completely accurate, the American cowboy is not a myth. At one time the American West was an open range with thousands of cattle that needed to be watched over, branded, and herded and rounded up and driven to slaughter houses. John Lomax recalls: Jimmie Rodgers' Life & Time. University of Illinois Press. 1992. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. In Central Africa, Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing, and the Shona people of Zimbabwe sometimes yodel while playing the mbira. [20] The Mbuti of the Congo incorporate distinctive whistles and yodels In 1839, the Tyrolese Minstrels toured the United States and started an American craze for Alpine music. During the 1840s, dozens of German, Swiss, and Austrian singing groups crisscrossed the country entertaining audiences with a combination of singing, yodeling, and "Alpine harmony." [26] The popularity of the European groups led to the formation of many American family singing groups as well. The most popular was the Hutchison Family Singers who toured, singing harmony and yodeling. Minstrel shows parodied the Hutchison's yodeling with their own, calling it "Tyrolesian business". In 1853, Christy's Minstrels burlesqued (parodied) the Hutchinson Family singing 'We Come From the Hills With Tyrolean Echo'. [27] Sleep, Baby, Sleep (Watson, 1911)

Yodeler Kenny Roberts was another member of the Down Homers; he had taught Bill Haley to yodel before he did a stint in the Navy when Haley took his place in the band. In later years Roberts was popular on children's TV shows where he used to leap over two feet in the air while playing guitar and yodeling. Yodelling arrived in America in the mid-19th century and was propagated through travelling entertainment shows. [23] Technique [ edit ] The Tarzan yell is the yodel-like call of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932). The yell was a creation of the movies, based on what Burroughs described in his books as "the victory cry of the bull ape." Carol Burnett has been associated with the Tarzan yell ever since doing it on her TV show that started in 1967 and ran for 11 years. This link from the Larry King Now show describes how she came to do it Carol Burnett on how the Tarzan yell started. Larkin, Colin (1993). "Slim Whitman". The Guinness Who's-Who of Country Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-726-6. a b c d Wise, Timothy. From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale: American yodeling on early recordings (PDF). Manchester, UK: University of Salford. doi: 10.1002/batt.201800148 . Retrieved 7 April 2018.

Awful. Nobody cares how you like the food, or how you learned to juggle when you were eight years old. Bill Haley: Before the Comets -- NEMSbook". www.reocities.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012 . Retrieved 9 September 2011.Carolina Cotton [62] and Patsy Montana were also early cowgirl yodeling singers. [63] Carolina Cotton (born Helen Hagstrom, 1925–1997) began to perform while still a youngster. Known as the Yodeling Blonde Bombshell, she went on to appear on radio shows, numerous Western movies, and early television. In the 1940s she sang with the Sons of the Pioneers; the only "daughter" of the group. In the 1950s when Westerns and Western Swing began to fall out of style, she returned to school and earned a master's degree in education and began a teaching career.