http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Yodel Posts tagged with 'Yodel' at MetaFilter. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:01:50 -0800 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:01:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72708/Blue%2DYodel%2D1%2Daka%2DT%2DFor%2DTexas <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Yodel_(songs_by_Jimmie_Rodgers)">Jimmy Rodgers' blue yodel series started in 1927.</a> He started with <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg">Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)</a>. My favorite covers were by the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMNkpLKd0lE">Everly Brothers</a> and by <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQMeYLq4OhQ">Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash</a>. There's even a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9gZGjQnzsM">hip hop</a> cover. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72708 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:01:50 -0800 Blue blueyodel BobDylan Cash JimmieRodgers Johnny TForTexas Yodel RussHy http://www.metafilter.com/63473/We%2Dlistened%2Dto%2Dthe%2Dbirds%2Dand%2Dtried%2Dto%2Dsing%2Dalong <a href="http://www.hillbilly-music.com/groups/story/index.php?groupid=12066">The DeZurik Sisters</a> committed only six songs to record during their recording career, but were the first women stars of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry">Grand Ole Opry</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Barn_Dance">National Barn Dance</a>. Now WFMU has <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/365-days-214---.html">32 tracks</a> of theirs from their early appearance as The Cackle Sisters on the Purina Checkerboard Squares Radio Show. Download away and hear the yodeling that swept the nation in the early 40s.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.63473 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:20:36 -0800 country countrymusic grandoleopry hillbilly music radio roots rootsmusic sisters yodel 1f2frfbf http://www.metafilter.com/57020/The%2DFalsettos%2DSkip%2DJames%2DTommy%2DJohnson%2DDona%2DDumitru%2DSiminica%2Dand%2DJoe%2DKeawe%2Damong%2Dothers Here is a video of one <a href="http://www.davestroud.com/glossary.def.falsetto.html" title="The Vocal Studio - glossary: Falsetto - 'Falsetto is the maximal elongation of vocal cords with minimal glottic gap...'">falsetto</a> singer:<br></br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIzNzOUglNM" title="Skip James at Newport 1966...however, this is not concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course. ">Skip James - Devil Got My Woman</a><br><br> More music by and information about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991109064502/www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Blues/Profiles/skip.james.html" title="From the liner notes for Document's 'Skip James - I'm So Glad: The Complete 1931 Paramount Sessions: '...Seldom can there have been a more impressive start to a recording career than 'Devil Got My Woman,' a seamless pattern of countertenor voice and eerie, hollow guitar, each taking up and embellishing the other, which is perhaps the single most poignant blues song about failed relationships between men and women.">Skip James</a>, a Romanian gypsy named <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/6718/dona-dumitru-siminic/" title="A review of Dona Dumitru Siminica - Sounds From a Bygone Age Vol. 3">Doma Dumitru Siminica</a>, <em>leo ki'eki'e</em> singers <a href="http://www.folklife.si.edu/hawaii/falsetto.htm" title="Hawaiian falsetto singing">Richard &amp; Solomon Ho'opi'i</a> and other <a href="http://www.cordinternational.com/falsetto_legends.htm" title="Hawaiian music emphasizes the voice. Many Hawaiian songs feature falsetto, called leo ki'eki'e, a term coined in Hawaiian in 1973. Falsetto singing, most often used by men, extends the singer's range to notes above their ordinary vocal range. The voice makes a characteristic break during the transition from the ordinary vocal register to the falsetto register.">Legends of Falsetto</a> within... tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57020 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:48:55 -0800 Blues Falsetto Folk Hawaiian Music SkipJames Yodel Yodeling y2karl