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Post by newey on Nov 17, 2014 22:34:40 GMT -5
(From the same Dept. that brought you "More Cowbell" . . .) So, driving down a (snowy) E-way the other day, and what should start blaring out my speakers but Focus: What a concept these guys had! A multi-national hit with no lyrics in any particular language, because it's yodeled. But, yet, it has vocals of a sort, and so avoids the dreaded " . .(instrumental)" label that is the death of radio airplay hopes. I was sure Focus wasn't the first pop/rock act to haul out the yodeling, so I started wracking the 'ol newey brain for predecessors. Only one that came to mind was the Vogues "Five O'Clock World": Although I'm sure there are others, which could be dredged up, out from the depths of memory of those more attuned than I . . . Now, definitional-ly speaking, we're talking pop/rock genres, so no fair throwing in Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, classic though it may be . . .  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 14:30:07 GMT -5
Focus's Hocus Pocus is definitely a classic. Thanx for bringing this. Gone googling for the singer!
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Post by cynical1 on Nov 19, 2014 18:42:09 GMT -5
Well, you certainly picked a genre with a serious niche. The best I could do was this guy:
Yeah, marginal...but hey, I had time to kill at work...which leads us to these guys...
Yeah...I think I'm gonna stop now.
HTC1
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Post by newey on Nov 19, 2014 21:19:20 GMT -5
Yeah, with yodeling a little bit does go a long way . . like a harmonica, best used in small doses.
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Post by sumgai on Nov 19, 2014 22:17:03 GMT -5
I don't recall that I've ever heard before anyone combining German ad slogans, yodeling and ZZ Top (La Grange) - that has to be some kind of record. Proves once again that c1 has the clear lead in Nutziness in this here joint. (But g-f-b still outranks us all in thread derailments.  ) |
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Post by cynical1 on Nov 20, 2014 9:58:45 GMT -5
...(But g-f-b still outranks us all in thread derailments. ...and now, a metal band dueling it out on accordions... HTC1 |
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 20, 2014 13:03:29 GMT -5
They looked like button melodians to me. Perhaps that's another example of American English?
"Whatever!" I can hear you all saying...
e&oe
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Post by newey on Nov 20, 2014 16:18:18 GMT -5
b4nj0-
Terminology does differ, but I thought that anything with a keyboard on it was an "accordion", whereas a melodeon had rows of buttons on both the bass and treble sides. And those instruments seem to have keys, although they have some crazy diagonal striping on them.
But still, no one has yet come up with a pop/rock song with yodeling, apart from my two examples? (Not that I'm disregarding Cyn's "Jodels" auf Deutsch, I was thinking more along the lines of something we all might have heard previously . . .)
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 20, 2014 16:51:26 GMT -5
Newey,
I'm watching on a 7" tablet and maybe I can't see too well, but at 2.24 it looks like buttons rather than keys.
Whatever, I can't rise to your challenge. +1 for a great left field thread!
e&oe
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Post by lunaalta on Nov 20, 2014 17:27:43 GMT -5
Was never much into Focus, but I love the Vogues vid. Nice........... Well, the dancing is a bit suspect, but the music is fabulous. |
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Post by ux4484 on Nov 22, 2014 4:40:41 GMT -5
Well... "Dreams" by The Cranberries kind of uses a yodel instead of a chorus.
Delores O'Riordan had the exact same hairstyle my Mrs had back then (they even look alike).
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Post by newey on Nov 22, 2014 8:08:36 GMT -5
ux- Welcome back!
It is a "sort-of" yodel, and a fine song as well. Hard to believe that was released over 20 years ago!
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Post by ux4484 on Nov 24, 2014 15:42:56 GMT -5
ux- Welcome back! It is a "sort-of" yodel, and a fine song as well. Hard to believe that was released over 20 years ago! I popped up in the Gibson innovation thread about a month back, but it was already a dead horse. I also seem to remember Chuck Berry having a live recording of "my ding-a-ling" in which he yodeled before the bridge, can't find it for the life of me. McCartney's last note (You-Hoo) on "Please Please Me" is also very yodel-like. For some cringe inducing entertainment: And:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%27n_Yodel |
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Post by reTrEaD on Nov 28, 2014 21:06:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I found some Yoda Rock.
What? YODEL rock? Oh. Well that's entirely different, isn't it. Nevermind...
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Post by gumbo on Nov 29, 2014 4:12:53 GMT -5
..the strawberry flavo(u)red stuff is ok, but some of the 'natural' & 'Greek-Style' stuff is a bit sour sometimes unless you put it on some fairly sweet fruit or something... ....what...  |
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Post by col on Nov 29, 2014 13:33:47 GMT -5
Hi all,
Well, if we include 'pop of its day', we can go much further back than anything listed so far. How about Jimmie 'The Yodeling Cowboy' Rodgers! I've always liked 'Waiting for a Train' ever since I heard a little of it at the end of a track by The Three Johns. I bought a Jimmie Rodgers CD a few years later (one of my first CDs).
The Three Johns, 'Do not cross the line':
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 18, 2015 17:16:03 GMT -5
The "yodelling" is 50 seconds in.
e&oe
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Post by newey on Apr 4, 2015 23:30:03 GMT -5
I knew there were others I couldn't think of when I started this nonsense . . .
The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek". The yodel starts at about 2:27:
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Post by wolf on Apr 7, 2015 19:59:18 GMT -5
How quickly we forget Slim Whitman.
I did not post a video because:
1) I think most people would not consider Slim to be a rock and roll artist.
2) I want to live.
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