That is Eddie Arnold that is singing with Leann. They did this song together on a country varitey show when she was just getting started. Eddie was the first one that I remember doing this in the 60s or early 70s
Yodeling in the US is generally considered country. It’s generally said that there’s three types of yodeling, Swiss cowboy and country. If you wanna hear some interesting yodeling Mary Schneider from Australia, you should listen to her. I love yodeling, but I can’t carry a tune.
LeAnn Rimes made history in 1997 when she, at just 14 years old, became the youngest person ever to win a GRAMMY, taking home Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance (for her rendition of "Blue,"
Eddie Arnold did this song way back in the 50s. My dad used to sing it to us kids and we laughed and laughed. Yodeling is funny to little kids. "Do it again, daddy!" :)
I remember my dad playing the Eddie Arnold song a lot when I was younger and honestly didn't care much for it until I heard this version with the two of them together.
As kids in Fort Worth, my brother and I listened to Country singer Eddie Arnold’s 15-minute radio program. His radio “open” was his big hit Cattle Call, which was his signature sound and song. Lee Ann’s cover is amazing.
When the whole country was introduced to LeAnn at 13 or 14 singing Blue, you knew this was a child blessed with a very special voice and talent. She could sing a grocery list and make you stop and pay attention.
I have the majority of her early C D's and this was definitely one of them, and I would play It over and over. Maybe Britt needs to listen to the C.D cause it is so good. And I absolutely loved blue.She needs to listen to that because Because Lynn yodel's in that.
Leann and Eddy Arnold teamed up for "Cattle Call" in 1996. She was 14 and he was 76. Cattle Call was his signature song, first recorded by him in 1944. His 1955 version was a number one hit in Country Music and topped the charts for a few weeks. He passed in 2008 at the age of 90. There's a You Tube video of the two of them together singing the song.
I have been waiting for you to discover Eddie Arnold. Now you need to experience his Make The World Go Away song. He was my fathers favorite singer when I was a kid. Then when Leann came onto the country music scene in the 90's, he fell in love with her voice as well.
14 years old in 1996 when she recorded this - - she asked Eddie Arnold for permission to record it for her album, he said yes IF he sang with her, rest is history
On cattle drives, at night, the cowboys would sing and yodel to the cattle to calm them at night. It also had the effect of letting the predators the humans were around. Most when they hear and smell humans are as we say man shy. Scared and stay away.
She had a concert in Rome ,Ga. I got picked to help with security for that concert . I got to meet and talk to her . She was sweet , down to earth and could really sing .
LeAnn Rimes was on the masked singer! You get a great sense of that woman’s range and I think she has more skills than what she showed! She’s truly incredible!
Leann has had child star drama and depression issues. She’s been very open about that. As an adult she has chosen to perform on her terms doing songs and styles as she wants knowing it’s not as lucrative financially as it would be singing what others may choose for her. She does tour and make appearances. Her last studio album was 2/3 years ago and very personal in nature.
Not much of Country Feller myself but a couple catch my ear! This one is a old one. Written by Tex Owens 1934 and made famous by Eddy Arnold 1955. El Paso by Marty Robbins is cool as well!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
As folks have mentioned, LeAnn was about 14 when this album came out. May have been 13 when she recorded some of it. She's duetting with country star Addy Arnold on this song, because he had a hit with it a couple of generations previous and it's kind of a passing-the-torch moment.
Jimmie Rodgers was the first country super star back in the late 20s early 30s. He had a number of songs known as "Blue Yodels". Some were just numbered like "Blue Yodel No. 6" and some also had names like "California Blues". You should give him a listen.
Eddy Arnold recorded his version 1944, and again in 1955. "The Cattle Call" is a song written and recorded in 1934 by American songwriter and musician Tex Owens.
If I remember right, the album, blue, which the song blue is out, there is absolutely gorgeous, but these were Patsy Clyde socks in the album. Blue was actually written for Patsy, and I don’t think she ever sang it, but it’s Leanne‘s way because her voice is kinda like Patsy Clines. It’s her way of paying tribute to Patsy Cline, and I think Leanne was like 15 or 14 when she did this album she was young.
This song is a prime exmple of "Western" style music. In reality, cowboys did sing to the cattle herds to help keep them calm! Plus, it was very boring sitting in a saddle all day, (unless the cattle spooked and stampeded!) so cowboys truly did sing to pass the time! Yodeling is a real vocal skill and some people can never master it. Hers is a gift!
I lived close to Dallas, and was a working musician in the area. Started hearing the buzz about this young girl that had an amazing voice. This was a year or two before she became famous. Amazing was right!!!
Played at every Rodeo for 70 years! Eddie Arnold, Slim Whitman, Tex Ritter, etc… Rimes is a newcomer to this! Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodels” from the 1920s are an earlier example. Real Cowboys still sing to their cattle.
Eddy Arnold released this song in 1955. Leann does a fantastic rendition and when Eddy comes in for the duet...it's sublime! It's possible that yodeling originated in the central Alps of Switzerland where herders used yodeling to communicate. Jimmy Rogers was the first American artist to record yodeling in a country song.
I forgot about this song!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS! LeAnn was one of my first music loves! I saw her in "concert" free at the Alaska state fair when she was 16! Before Blue (yes, that's her first album/CD) was even released!
lol.. As soon as I saw this on my feed, I was gonna say you should check out Eddy Arnold’s original version of this song. But that’s who you hear near the end of the song. I’d still check out the original just for the fun of it. I knew Leann recorded this song, but I guess I forgot that Eddy Arnold sang it with her. Pretty cool to hear that harmony yodeling part. If you want to hear some more old school yodeling, check out OG country singer Jimmie Rodgers. The song T For Texas would be a good place to start with Jimmie Rodgers. But he does the same yodeling lick in just about all of his songs. lol
This is her first album. It's amazing. God did give her a great vocal instrument. You're thinking of The Sound Of Music. Eddi Arnold first sang this song and is singing with Leann on this one.
Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 - May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
And the old cattle called part was way back when when they were driving Cadillac of Florida out to the west, as before there was even towels in the west, but just has a assumption cows come out of Texas, but actually come out of Florida when the cows get scared a lot of the Cowboys would singto the cows and calm them to prevent stampede in that kind of thing
Eddie Arnold is from right up the road from me, in Henderson, Tennessee. He first made this song popular back in the late 50's or early 60's. This is him singing here with Leanne. Also, Leanne was only like 13 or 14 when this song and album came out.
Hey Brit! Check out Diana Ankudinova that sings “Yodel Time” on a Russian edition of Children’s Voice when she was 13 yrs old. At 15 she covers “Wicked Game” and at 18 she did “Can’t help falling in Love” by Elvis Presley. Love LeAnn Rimes!🙏🏼🌹💕
For more yodeling, check out Mary Schneider "Yodeling the Classics". She's very skilled, but it's also unexpected and funny. Another artist who uses yodeling in his work is Bobby McFerrin ("Don't Worry, Be Happy"). He was conductor of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and added his voice to their work.
Yodeling comes from the Swiss, Austria and Germany areas of Europe. They would call cattle and goats in. It carried over to the cowboys in the US who watched over and protected the herds on the prairies.
I love how respectful you are for the music. Yes, yodeling is definitely a gift. I’m sure it could be learned. I’d you have vocal talent. She also yodels a little bit in her song blue which is also her title debut album… also a few yodeling interpretations throughout her career.. trust me when I say she has probably 1000 songs, you could get lost if you go down that rabbit hole. One of the best live vocalist I have ever seen.
This is a cool song. When we were growing up pops was heavy country and western but he sort of limited the yoddling songs, mainly because he had 4 boys and you know how young boys would brutalize the yoddling afterwards. 4 boys and a sister. Don't know how my parents and sis survived . Especially Chuck Berry's "My Ding a ling" we got grounded after hearing it, mainly because us boys started making up our own verses.
On yodeling, you’re correct. Also it’s used to call from mountain peak to peak, so it has been practiced in the US in Appalachia.Also correct about LeAnn Rimes. She made a huge splash, but as the country world likes to do, she was cancelled after an affair leading to her r12 year marriage. What’s talked about less is the fact that her father was ripping her off for most of her earnings while she worked non-stop, to the point where she had to sue him. It took her a while to become the person she wanted to be in spite of this and other offenses.
It's your real forte to make faces - impressive and never been before - Hank Williams was a Jodel-King of country music. Indeed Swiss, Austria and Germany are big in jodeling - Cattle Call is typical in the Alps. On some mediterranian islands they have great whistlers (sounds loud over valleys and sometimes a bit like mongols throat voice music). Jodeling can be very different: Melancolic OR high energetic JOY jodeling - it's like some Africans mouth snatching that became expression in speech and singing.
Yodeling is tied to a lot of ancient cultures. And yes, the traditions come mainly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Early American settlers mixed some old Celtic music, with Germanic music, and that inspired a lot of yodeling within Bluegrass/Country music.
You would love her inspirational album You Light Up My Life, with great recordings of Ten Thousand Angels Cried, Amazing Grace, On The Side Of Angels, How Do I Live, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, and my favorite, I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (great listen for a church girl such as yourself). Incredibly soul touching.
I could not wait to see your face when it came time for Eddy to jump in. If you ever want to go way back, he would be a great listen with his solo version of this song (1955) as well as What’s He Doin’ In My World, Make The World Go Away and Streets Of Laredo. 👍🏼😁❤️
I'd bet a few dollars that they brought that song to her, because of the yodels she does in "Blue". The guy is Eddy Arnold, who made the song famous in the late 50's.
Britt That is Mr.Eddie Arnold Who was 83 when LeAnn sang cattle call.He recorded it in his younger day.He had open heart Surgery and she sang it at an awards Ceremony. Check Lann Rimes in the Patsy .Montana Tribute.
The great Eddy Arnold. My favorite song of his is, "A Cowboy." I think is was 1976/77. Another Country singer who could yodel is Margo Smith. She does it on the show, "Family Country Reunion." & l think also on "Pop goes the country" tv show. I love to hear singer yodel.
Another great female yodeler was Patsy Montana. A lot of early western artists yodeled and not just the females, as you just heard.You’re probably too young to remember seeing all those commercials on TV trying to get people to buy Slim Whitman albums, but if you ever saw the movie “Mars Attacks” you’d hear him singing.
That's Eddy's song but my favorite singing it is Slim Whitman. I would love to hear Leanne and Slim sing it. Her and Slims are the best versions I have heard. If you like yodeling, Slim is fantastic.
The song “BLUE” was originally written for Patsy Cline to record, before her untimely death. It was kept in a vault, until someone, in the Cline estate,came along after hearing LeAnn’s voice, offered the song to her to record. The rest is history!✌🏼🫶🏼🤗
