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Throughout the 1970s, he was a permanent feature of musical variety shows on West German television, especially on the ZDF program Lustige Musikanten. Lang sold more than 10 million recordings, and earned 20 gold records and one platinum record within the German recording industry. On his 70th birthday, he performed for the final time. [2]
He began singing in the 1920s after seeing a traveling Swiss performer named "The Yodeling Fool" in a nearby town. Carter sang in the "singing cowboy" style and developed a yodel with a Swiss-sound sometimes called an "echo yodel" or a "three-in-one." [50] Elton Britt is also considered to be one of the early cowboy yodelers. In 1934, he ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
kaput (German spelling: kaputt), out-of-order, broken, dead; nix, from German nix, dialectal variant of nichts (nothing) Scheiße, an expression and euphemism meaning "shit", usually as an interjection when something goes amiss; Ur- (German prefix), original or prototypical; e.g. Ursprache, Urtext; verboten, prohibited, forbidden, banned. In ...
Yodel is a delivery service company based in Liverpool, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was originally known as the Home Delivery Network ( HDN , [ 3 ] full name Home Delivery Network Limited , HDNL ), [ 4 ] until it acquired the business-to-business (B2B) and retail ( B2C ) operations of DHL Express UK and thereafter, rebranded itself as Yodel in May ...
The Jodeldiplom ("yodeling diploma") is a fictitious degree created for a sketch by German humorist Loriot. [1] The sketch pokes fun at the numerous degrees awarded by universities and folk high schools , which grant their recipients social status without providing any meaningful qualifications for the labor market.
Ischi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. [1] In high school, he was a loner, but it was during this time that he first heard yodeling on the radio. [2] Following his father, Ischi went to university for mechanical engineering.
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