Word: yodeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negro laborers taught him to play the guitar badly. But nobody taught him his clear full-throated yodel that almost never broke into falsetto. When he was little more than 20 he married...
Hillbilly songs were already nationally popular and that day Jimmie Rodgers became the greatest hillbilly of all. Tired, unshaven, racked with tuberculosis, he twanged his guitar, sang and yodeled ''Sleep, Baby, Sleep." Victor made a record of it. Within a year it sold more than 1,000,000 copies, topping Caruso's sales for any single year of his career. Jimmie Rodgers' second recording was called "Blue Yodel." So popular did it prove that he followed it with a "Blue Yodel No. 2," then a "No. 3" until he sang 25 of them, sold...
...Carmen had the best headlinemaker. Mary Garden, returning from retirement in Corsica, pranced and wiggled gaily, took her bows with seasoned enthusiasm. Though the amplifiers helped the small Garden voice, critics found her inclined to "yodel." Said she afterwards: "You know that role is a little low for me, but always they have had me as Carmen. Always they have pressed it upon me. I don't know why, but they...
...head, he is too tough to mind it and shows his stamina by immediately strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives his yodel in a loud voice and advances on the dwarf village followed by a herd of friendly elephants. The elephants trample the village to bits and Tarzan disposes of the gorilla. Cinemaddicts will be aided in their understanding of this turn of events by recalling the recent cycle of gangster pictures...