Lots of infectious laughter in Sandy Toksvig’s programme about yodeling on Radio 4 last weekend. The thesis: yodeling cheers you up. I can’t help but agree. My iTunes library contains 28 songs with the word ‘yodel’ in the track name (‘Yodeling Hobo’, ‘Swiss Yodel’, ‘Yodeling Cowboy’, ‘The Whipporwill Yodel’ and so on… Please don’t judge me – I had a difficult childhood). I can’t yodel (can you?) but I’m adding it to the list of things I’d like to learn how to do when I’m old (I suppose I mean ‘older’).
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Yup, I heard that and it made me laugh. I spent the program trying to mentally recreate the old joke about the man who gets lost in the mountains, stays the night with a man with three daughters, shags them all in the night, gets found out in the morning and as he hoofs it across the hills yells back (and you really have to yodel this bit):
Posted 18 Jan 2005 at 11:08 pm ¶‘And-yooorrr-ooolllld-laahhdeee’
God, please no, not yodelling as well. Have you no mercy Steve?
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Posted 19 Jan 2005 at 8:54 pm ¶I actually read the cover too quick and thought it said Elton John Yodel Songs. That was quite a shock.
Toodle Ay He Hoo.
Posted 19 Jan 2005 at 11:33 pm ¶