Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The tune for "Blue Yodel" follows the traditional blues AAB pattern, which consists of singing a line twice and closing with a third one. [23] The end of each stanza features a yodeling break, as its turnarounds emulate the conventional blues licks of the time. [26] "Blue Yodel" features a slowed down ragtime rhythm. [27]
Jimmie Rodgers’s first blue yodel, “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) ”, was recorded on November 30, 1927, in the Trinity Baptist Church at Camden, New Jersey. When the song was released in February 1928 it became "a national phenomenon and generated an excitement and record-buying frenzy that no-one could have predicted."
Century", the minstrel show yodel, which he calls "fake blue yodel" and characterizes as a "Swiss yodel with black content", and the pop-country yodel, as used by Jimmy Long in Yodel Your Troubles Away (1929). [12] The "revival experience" of Wilf Carter can be considered exemplary for the development of yodeling.
Blue Yodel 7 (Anniversary Yodel) 56607-3 Nov 26, 1929 Sept 5, 1930 Co-Written with McWilliams. Singing with guitar She Was Happy Till She Met You 56608-3 July 1, 1932 Co-Written with McWilliams. Singing with guitar Blue Yodel 11 (I've Got A Gal) 56617-4 Nov 27, 1929 June 30, 1933 Singing with guitar Drunkards Child 56618-3 Nov 28, 1929 April 4 ...
While working on the railroad Rogers learned blues techniques from African American gandy dancers (railroad workers), [41] and eventually created his characteristic sound – a blend of traditional work, blues, hobo, and cowboy songs - his trademark "Blue Yodel." His first blue yodel, known as "Blue Yodel No. 1" (T For Texas), was recorded in ...
The sessions produced, among other numbers, "Blue Yodel no. 8, Mule Skinner Blues" and "Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' on the Corner)" featuring Louis Armstrong. [56] Rodgers commissioned Ray Hall, at the time a prisoner at the Texas State Penitentiary, to help him write the song "T.B. Blues" after McWilliams refused to help. Rodgers recorded and ...
In the early 2000s, a set of 1946 radio recordings by the Down Homers were discovered, and Haley is named and performs the solo number "She Taught Me to Yodel." Roberts signed a recording contract with Coral Records in 1949, a division of Decca. [1] His first release "I Never See Maggie Alone" was an immediate hit. [5] It sold a million copies. [6]
It was paired with a song from a later session, "Blue Yodel No. 4", and was released on February 8, 1929, with the catalog number V-40014. It was copyrighted on March 23. [ 19 ] On the record pressing, "Waiting for a Train" was assigned to V-40014-B. [ 20 ] Victor added "A" and "B" at the end of the catalog number to differentiate the sides. [ 21 ]