Yodeling in Broadway shows
Yodeling in Broadway shows
leefowler
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/04
#1Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 11:35am
Forgive me this peculiar request...Can anyone name some Broadway shows where someone yodels? All I can think of is "Lonely Goatherd". I'm looking for some other examples. Thanks in advance!
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Updated On: 4/13/07 at 11:35 AM
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#2re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 11:49amNot quite a Broadway show, but Floyd Collins.
sweeedboy
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/03
#2re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 11:55amThis is a little bit of a stretch, but in the original London run of chess at the very end of "Mountain Duet" Tommy Korberg threw in a little yodel at the end of the G on "I won't CARRREEE eeee oooo." It was a funny little moment.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#4re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:14pmRadio Gals...America's Aviatrix Love Song is chock full of it
#5re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:23pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels- "Ruffhausin' Mit Shuffhausen"
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#6re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:30pmI'm so curious why you're asking.
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#7re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:58pm"Swiss Miss" from the Gershwin musical LADY, BE GOOD! There was a wonderful studio recording of this show made in the early 90s featuring Jason Alexander. I believe it is still in print. You should pick it up!
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#8re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 2:49pmDoes Max's Tarzan yell in "Along Came Bialy" count?
#9re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:21pm...why?
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yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#10re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:22pmMost Glindas yodel in Popular? Since when? I don't recall that...
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#12re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:29pmThat is in no way yodeling. The music is written that way with a malisma on the U.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#13re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:32pmKristin Chenoweth yodeled it. She made an abrupt switch from chest to head voice to create a yodel sound. It was originally sung as a yodel. Some women playing Glinda may not sing it as such.
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#14re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:37pmBut it has never been instructed to be sung as a yodel. So if a specific actress decides to put that into her version, there will be about 1 second of yodeling in the show, but none actually written in the show.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#15re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:41pmRight, but we're talking about instances of yodeling in Broadway shows. If you take the original cast of Wicked, there were some yodels. There you go. It's really not worth arguing over.
fairygodmother
Featured Actor Joined: 4/30/06
#16re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:57pmthat's not technically a yodel, tho, is it. its just a flip.
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#17re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 5:58pmThank you! We're right. There's no yodel. I just listened to it.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#18re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:03pm
It's a yodel. That's how yodels are done, by flipping.
ETA And oh my GOD, why am I even arguing about this? I don't even care.
Updated On: 4/13/07 at 06:03 PM
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#19re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:13pmOh you concede... Good! You weren't going to win...
strelimyn
Stand-by Joined: 9/17/06
#20re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:14pmIn numerous interviews, Stephen Schwartz explains the process of writing Popular and states how he favored it when Kristin began yodeling on the word "popular" ... soooooo
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#21re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:16pm
No, I don't concede. I just don't care and I think you're ridiculous.
ETA - Thanks, strem. *in true 5-year-old spirit, blows a raspberry and thumbs nose at Yankee* Nyah nyah! You lose!
What a moron.
Updated On: 4/13/07 at 06:16 PM
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#22re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:17pm
"In numerous interviews, Stephen Schwartz explains the process of writing Popular and states how he favored it when Kristin began yodeling on the word "popular" ... soooooo"
Do you have a source?
fairygodmother
Featured Actor Joined: 4/30/06
#23re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:30pm
and i'm gonna get pedantic on your asses now.
look on the wikipedia definition of yodelling. it says
"Yodelling is a particular application of this technique, wherein a singer might switch between these registers several times in but a few seconds, at a high volume. Going back and forth over this "voice break" repeatedly produces a very distinctive type of sound."
ie more than one note or flip. one is a flip, a few in a short period is yodelling.
wow, i also don't know why i care, but wrong is wrong.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#24re: Yodeling in Broadway shows
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:37pmYes, I agree that that would be full-fledged yodeling. I believe the flip she does is a type of yodel, however, and I do recall Stephen Schwartz referring to it as a yodel. I will try and find that interview. But yes, I would agree with you, though I don't believe a vocal flip is much different from a yodel. Now can we shut up?
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