Artist	Song
Goebel Reeves	The Yodelin' Teacher, 1934
Peeni Waali vs Lee Perry	Nice Time, 1997
Jodelclub Obergoldbach	Aelper Jutz
Peter Hinnen	Nudel Yodel, 1975
Christine Lauterburg	LiobSli, 1994
Stimmhorn	Triohatala. 1997
Franzl Lang	Min Vater isch en Appenzeller
Hubert von Goisern	Wildschntz Rap, 1992
Jimmie Rodgers	Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues), 1930
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Mule Skinner Blues, 1940
De Zurik Sisters	The Arizona Yodeler, 1939
Kenny Roberts	She Taught Me How to Yodel
Elton Britt	Cowpoke
Wylie & the Wild West	Cattle Call
Dolly Parton	Mule Skinner Blues, 1970
Leon Redbone with Hank Williams, Jr.	Lovesick Blues, 1985
Emmett Miller	St. Louis Blues
Andreani	Le coucou de ma grandmFre
Castel del Piano	Quell'uccellino che vien dal mare
JosT Feliciano	Mule Skinner Blues
Chen-Chin Yu	Yodel Polka
Leon Thomas	Umbo Weti, 1970
Thomas Scholl	Der Formel 1 Wahnsinns KSsloch Brutal Jodler
Instruction	"You're not expected."
Fendermen	Mule Skinner Blues, 1960
Girls of the Golden West	Will There Be Any Yodelers in Heaven?, 1934

Comment:

This mix was designed to provide contrast and listening pleasure. Feel free to yodel along! Make sure to check out Bart Plantenga's excellent book Yodel-Ay-Ee-Ooo-The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World for more information about yodeling all over the world.

1. Reeves, a middle-class singer/songwriter eschewed his upbringing to become a hobo known as "the Texas Drifter." According to legend, he taught Jimmie Rodgers to yodel-but I don't believe it; their styles are too different.

2. Read the amazing story of a Swiss guy who travels to Jamaica, gets to know some important musicians, turns into a Swiss reggae dub weaver and gets Lee Perry to record some lyrics for him in his studios in Switzerland.

3. A typical Swiss yodel song performed by a Swiss yodel choir, of which there exist many in Switzerland.

4. In the 1960s Swiss yodeler Peter Hinnen successfully fused American country music with Swiss Alpine Yodeling and landed several songs in the charts in Switzerland and other European countries. Nudel Yodel (Noodle Yodel), a novelty recording from the `70s, is different-here Hinnen combines '70 funk with Swiss Vollsmusik He's backed up by Rumpelstiltz, the most successful Swiss rock band of the `70s.

5. Hinnen brought yodeling to the top ten in Switzerland in the 1960s, but throughout the `70s and '80 yodeling was decidedly uncool in Swiss popular culture. In the 'mid-1990s Christine Lauterburg changed this somewhat when she fused yodel, techno and ethno-ambient. Her first CD, Echo der Zeit, went to #9 in the Swiss album chart. "Liobäli" is one of the more experimental tracks on this album.

6. AMG: "Stimmhorn is one of Switzerland's truly inventive bands. Combining natural sounds, man-made instruments, and overtone singing, the group's concerts, in churches and similar acoustically designed spaces, have been described as `technoparty or secret religious ritual.'" Free downloads of several Stimmhorn tracks are available at the band's website.

7. Munich's Franzl Lang, the "Yodel King," has recorded some 40 albums and is well known in Europe. Here he yodels one of Switzerland's most famous yodel songs.

8. Von Goisern, an Austrian self-taught multi-instrumentalist-singer-yodeler (his trademark instrument is the accordion) has fused alpine influences with music from other parts of the world.

9. Famous for his trademark yodel, Rodgers, the "father of country music," blended elements of African-American blues, early Tin Pan Alley, and Anglo-American ballads into a unique style. Bob Dylan remarked that Rodgers is "The Man Who Started It All." "The Mule Skinner Blues" has been covered by many artists, some great covers follow later in the mix.

10. Rodgers's "Mule Skinner Blues" was an important song for Bill Monroe, the "father of bluegrass": He sang it at his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry in 1939 and it was his first release on Victor in 1940.

11. A duo popular from the '30s to `50s, famous for sky-high yodels.

12. Roberts is a legendary, but relatively unknown yodeler. Definitely one of the best and fastest yodelers.

13. Another giant among American yodelers.

14. Wylie Gustafson, famous for the Yahoo yodel trademark, covers old yodel songs and writes new ones.

17. A vaudeville singer, a white man performing in blackface, Miller recorded some yodeling in the '20 that heavily influenced singers such as Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams (who learned "Lovesick Blues" from a Miller record).

19. Yodeling from Northern Italy.

22. Leon Thomas, one of the great jazz vocalists, is little known. His amazing Pygmy-influenced yodeling

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