Calling all jais. Calling all jais.

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wbtravis007 · #1 Post by **wbtravis007** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:26 pm

Nobody mentioned my comment about what I'm gonna try to set out below -- (and we all know how painful that can be).

wbtravis007 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:This song made it to #69 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1955. Name the artist:

(yodeling)
The cattle are prowlin',
The coyotes are howlin'
Way out where the doggies roam
Where spurs are a jinglin'
And the cowboy is singing
His lonesome cattle call
(yodeling)

He rides in the sun
'Til his days work is done
And he rounds up the cattle each fall
(yodeling)
Singing his cattle call

For hours he would ride
On the range far and wide
When the night wind blows up and slow
His heart is a feather
In all kinds of weather
He sings his cattle call
(yodeling)

He's browned as a fairy
From ridin' the prairie
And he sings with an western drawl
Singing his cattle call
I don't think that what they're calling yodeling is really yodeling.

Anyway, I'm kind of curious about whether you think I'm right.

I'm hoping that you can confirm that if you want to hear a real yodel, go to Roy.

What Eddie did in "Cattle Call" was wonderful, sure enough. It was a very nice, piercing, falsetto call.

Still, though.

silvercamaro · #2 Post by **silvercamaro** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:42 pm

I'm not Jai, but my name starts with a J, so close enough.

I listened to the song here (second half of this video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VcnVtvDtG8

The "Ooooooh-doooooooo" of the chorus may be falsetto, as you say, but when he reaches "Oh-de-lo-de-lay-lee," that's clearly yodeling by all standards.

Other singers may yodel longer or better or more consistently, but Eddie yodels. Yup.

TheConfessor · #3 Post by **TheConfessor** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:52 pm

His name was Eddy.

wbtravis007 · #4 Post by **wbtravis007** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:20 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I'm not Jai, but my name starts with a J, so close enough.

I listened to the song here (second half of this video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VcnVtvDtG8

The "Ooooooh-doooooooo" of the chorus may be falsetto, as you say, but when he reaches "Oh-de-lo-de-lay-lee," that's clearly yodeling by all standards.

Other singers may yodel longer or better or more consistently, but Eddie yodels. Yup.

Yep. You're right. I was objecting to how the refrain was described. I'd forgotten about the real yodeling.

wbtravis007 · #5 Post by **wbtravis007** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:27 pm

TheConfessor wrote:His name was Eddy.

I always prefer "y" to "ie," so I'm surprised that I made that mistake this time.

I don't go by "Skippie" for nothing, you know.