Oh, I didn't much care for Gitti & Erica to be honest. We can't all like the same though.

Here's the rather awful but hilarious "Tritsch Tratsch Polka Yodel" I was looking for earlier but couldn't find. If you want to try a yodeling experiment, try waking your spouse by putting this on the stereo and see what happens. :p:

I think I first encountered yodeling on an old record (yes, one of those large, flat, dark round objects) of the story of "Heidi" complete with lovely songs that I listened to when I was a child.

The only other encounter I've had with yodeling (other than in this thread and an occasional song heard here or there) is through the watered-down yodeling song, "The Lonely Goatherd," from the musical The Sound of Music:



I've always thought yodeling was *supposed* to sound amusing because it has such unusual pitch changes compared to regular speaking, so I've never felt bad about feeling this form of singing (which isn't easy to do well, I feel) is funny and intended to get people to smile. The sound change is unexpected, and often unexpected (but unharmful) things strike people as amusing, like seeing a very tall person and a very short person who just happen to be standing right next to each other. So, I think yodeling sounds funnier when a man does it, because the shift from the more typical low male voice to a very high voice is more startling compared to when a woman with a higher voice to start with suddenly goes up to a higher note.

Their singing is quite pretty. Hehe...I'm wondering, Neapolitan, what draws you to Gitti as opposed to Erica, since to me they look almost completely alike? I must say I find myself feeling a preference for Erica. I don't know why.
--Erica

English band Adam & The Ants also used some watered down yodeling, at least in the B-side from their "Stand and Deliver" single which was "Beat My Guest" (very clever pun there).



(It's a fan vid of course)

The yodeling isn't impressive but I actually like the song. :p:

Hey, I liked Adam and the Ants a lot back in the 70's and 80's...but I didn't remember this song. Thanks for sharing it! The song *is* a good example of the quirky feeling that watered-down yodeling offers to New Wave music, in this case. It is nice to hear yodeling used outside its original yodeling genre. Ah, the 80's! I am now feeling nostalgia for the music of that era...sigh.

Here's another Adam and the Ants song, "Stand and Deliver," that has a tiny bit of yodeling in it, I'd say. I like almost all Adam and the Ants' songs because they are so playfully risque and quirky (such that a little yodeling fits right in yet, I feel, sounds cool). An aside: doesn't "Adam" look like Johnny Depp's Captain Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?

He has some longer demonstrations than this but this'll give you an idea of his vocal ability.

Fun and entertaining yodeling is.

Indeed complex and rewarding.

I feel that Jimmie Rodgers needs a mention in this thread. Jimmie was a pioneer, and pretty good. Sadly he died before he was forty from TB. I would link you to some of his songs, but due to my post count I don't have that ability. Most of you have probably heard of him, but for those of you that haven't, I suggest looking some of his songs up on Youtube.