Once you try saying out the post name out loud, you will surely understand, what this post is about!
Today’s post is about Y for Yodelling!
Yodelling is a form of singing, which involves rapid change of pitch, mostly famous in Europe and highly popularized and immortalized in Bollywood music by singer Kishore Kumar da.
Yodelling is mostly associated and used by people in wilderness and is a shout to make themselves heard, over a long distance, mostly on mountains.
Even cow boys have their own signals in the Wild West, similar to Yodelling! The cow boys had huge herds of cattle which grazed on wide areas and which needed to be taken care of, were controlled by yodelling. The cowboys sang yodels for their cattle as a signal.
These signal like cries later crept into music and folk songs in the Europe and America. Once yodelling became a part of music, there were stage shows and theater performances of yodellers and slowly found a place in Indian music too!
In the 1940s and 1950s, yodelling was popular kind of music, around the world, but has faded, with time. Yodelling was never as popular in India as it was in Europe and USA.
Are you interested in singing and play an occasional guitar? Why not strum a few strings along with flexing your vocal chords and yodel away!
Yodel – Ay – EEE – Oooo!
P.S:
- The other hobbies starting with a Y are Yoga, Yachting, Yo- Yoing and Yarn Spinning.
- Go through the song, to learn what yodelling is all about. Thanks to Kishore Kumar da, for such beautiful rendition. The original song had Super Star Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja in the lead. Sadly, the video can’t be copied, so I have attached the audio link here.
3. Sometimes, old really seems like gold. Olden days are always better!
Till the last hobby post, cheerio!