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Franz "Franzl" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the Yodel King (German: Jodlerkönig), was an alpine yodeller from Bavaria, Germany. Lang's genre is German folk music ; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions.
On March 7, 2009, [7] they debuted on television, on the ARD folk music program Musikantenstadl. [5] Their performance (with accordions on rollerblades) [ 5 ] [ 4 ] brought them instant fame. [ 1 ] A video of the duo on that day's show (they sang a song "Bayernmädels" from their debut album) is now popular on YouTube , having attracted over 14 ...
In East Germany, the same process did not begin until the mid-70s, where some folk musicians began incorporating revolutionary ideas in coded songs. Popular folk songs included emigration songs from the 19th century, work songs and songs of apprentices, as well as democracy-oriented folk songs collected in the 1950s by Wolfgang Steinitz.
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Yodeling is a major feature of folk music from Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany and can be heard in many contemporary folk songs, which are also featured on regular TV broadcasts. Stefanie Hertel is a German yodeler and popular performer of Alpine folk music.
The song's lyrics were written by Willi Münker in November 1932, [1] before Hitler's rise to power. It was set to music by Joseph Neuhäuser in 1935, reportedly based on an old folk song. It was published and recorded for the first time in 1937. It is an ode to the Westerwald region of western Germany.