0:30 my absolute fav. So heartfelt and shows pride especially with the music accompanying the yell. It feels quite melodic too his yell. Like a sound from a song 👌
I mimicked Tarzan's yell from very early on. By the time I was a teen, it was quite good. When I did a stint as a lifeguard, very early in the morning, I would cast the call across the water at full voice and it would carry very nicely. One morning I used the bullhorn and sent it across the lake amplified to maximum. The silence that followed was quite satisfying. The birds, chittering mammals and even the insects all took a moment of silence in the wake of that amplified call. Very satisfying.
True! It's HARD! In fact, Tony Goldwyn, who voiced Tarzan in the Disney movie, allegedly shredded his voice trying to do the yell in his voice recording session. Shakespearean actor Brian Blessed (who voiced the villainous Clayton) was just leaving his own recording session in the sound booth next door and heard poor Tony's hoarse attempts, and offered to give it a try himself. The resulting yell was so good that Disney kept it in the movie. And that, boys and girls, is why the Disney version of Tarzan's yell is actually voiced by the movie's villain!
There’s something so primal about that yell yet so human. I feel like early hominids might have actually sounded like this. There’s something to it so captivating yet familiar. Makes your hair stand up.
They very likely did. Ancient hominids almost certainly had musical elements in their vocalizations, just like the classic Tarzan yell does, long before we had anything like the languages we have now. It's probably one of the reasons we were so successful as apex predators. Can you imagine being a wild animal who made the mistake of attacking a tribe of hominids and hearing demonic, otherworldly roars all around you from all directions, as the rest of them closed in on you?
Death The Grim Reaper That was Elmo Lincoln. The very first film iteration of Tarzan. When Elmo was young, the movies didn't yet have sound. 1919, I believe. The image you see here is of Elmo recounting, much later in life, what he did on set when filming the Tarzan yell. Burroughs called it the victory cry or challenge cry of the bull ape.
@@TGMD1986 There is a very good rendition of the Tarzan yell from Filmation studios that made a Tarzan cartoon in the 1970s. "Tarzan Lord of the Jungle" was the title and lore has it that it was Burroughs' grandson, Danton that voiced the call for the show.
@@TGMD1986 won't happend anytime soo. Humans are way too advanced for any other race on the planet to rise up and dethrone. Maybe once humanity reaches extinction.
@@kendallthiede373 Hes the original Tarzan from the first Tarzan movie which was a silent movie. Thats the noise he was making back in 1918. The second guy is from the 1932 movie who really started the modern day yell.
I'm 50yrs young.... And I still get goosebumps when I heard TARZAN'S YELL.....!!!!!!! 🗣.......... 🦁🦊🐹🐒🐗🐆🐘🦛🦏🐃 We used to play Tarzan.... Planet of the apes! Lost in space... Ohhhh men... I'm old🙈🙈 Good all days!
100% agree with that! Here's a fact for you. Brian Blessed who voiced Clayton in the Disney movie actually provided the yells for Tarzan and has even stated that Weissmuller's yell was huge inspiration!
Fun fact: that yell at 0.31 was actually done by Brian Blessed, who voiced the villain Clayton in the Disney movie. Blessed was just leaving his own voice recording session at the Disney studio when he heard Tony Goldwyn (the voice of Tarzan) becoming hoarse from multiple attempts at trying and failing to record the yell. Blessed offered to give it a try, and this was the result. Disney liked it so much they used it!
My ranking: 1.) 0:30 Disney’s Tarzan. Definitely the best version of all time. Back then, everything Disney touched turned into gold. And the fact that it goes with the soundtrack score is the cherry on top of the delicious sundae. 2.) 0:06 The classic MGM yell. The pioneer to a true classic and iconic yell. 3.) 0:21 Very underrated. It sounds like the MGM and Disney versions mixed together. 4.) 0:26 The Legend of Tarzan (2016), I believe. Not a bad yell, but the fact it’s mixed with a roar and a growl is kinda off-putting. 5.) 0:00 Jesus! I know this is the first one, but, man, are the later ones so much better! Especially the Disney one.
To be fair, though, the Legend of Tarzan (2016) call has so far been the most animalistic, and possibly book-accurate, Tarzan call. In the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, from what I've heard, Tarzan's yell is originally described as "guttural" and "blood-curdling", and the 2016 film honestly captured that really well. I also like how it's shown off-screen, as only hearing that roar off-screen is enough to send chills up one's spine. Elmo Lincoln's Tarzan call was also pretty animalistic-sounding, but yeah, compared to the later ones, especially since we got Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan the Ape Man, which is obviously the one that inspired hundreds of subsequent Tarzan films, Lincoln's roar sounds pretty laughable today.
The first Yell was from Elmo Lincoln the first adult movie Tarzan from the 1918 silent movie Tarzan of the Apes. He was on the television show You Asked For It and he screamed the Yell. No one that wasn’t associated with the show knew what the first yell sounded like because the movie was silent. This film that Mr Lincoln starred in was also one of the first films to gross over one million dollars. The film came six years after the first appearance of Tarzan in the All Story Magazine in 1912.
The first dude who did the Tarzan call is the best!!!! How did he do it? I’ve always liked hearing it because it’s nearly impossible for just anyone to do the call!
Edgar Rice Burroughs inc currently owns the two Weissmuller Tarzan yells after it picked both of them up from MGM and RKO, which have most of their films now being a part of Warner Bros. Warner itself owns the rights to license both of them anyway.
They used that Johnny Weismueller Tarzan yell in a James Bond movie called "Octopussy". James Bond dressed in a white suit was trying to escape his pursuers riding elephants in the jungle, when he noticed vines hanging down off the trees and starting swinging through them to the sound effect of that famous Tarzan yell.
Lol. My roomate once, while drunk, played this next to the neighbours open window, first floor, while he slept. Next morning neighbour complained that some idiot was screaming in the street
@@gabrielbroughman9922 @Jared Gagnon Hey guys listen it doesn't matter who "perfected" the call. It just matters which one you guys prefer and no matter what you say all the yells have something unique to them in their own right. So enough arguing and just enjoy them for what they are.
1st clip: WTF???? 2nd clip: Decent, but sounds like he trying to yolo. 3rd clip: Connor style yell. 4th clip: Tarzan gets shot from above 5th clip. Tarzan comes back with a reboot. 6th clip: The OG Tarzan. 7th clip: Tarzan comes back with a vengeance 8th clip: Tarzan gets a voice crack. 9th clip: OG Tarzan making and epic ending yell.
Can I just point out that actress Lucy Lawless is actually a trained singer, which is one of the main reasons she had the voice control to do the Xena cry. As pointed out further above, the Tarzan yell and the Xena yell are actually really hard, and require a LOT of breath support and vocal control to do.
Christopher Lambert’s own rip roaring Tarzan Yell seems too tonally plain dull for most Tarzan films, even though it’s only recently been used as an okay replacement to the windy Tarzan yell of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ grandson Danton Burroughs (for Filmation’s surprisingly source faithful tv show Tarzan Lord of the Jungle) in Mugen fan games nowadays. There are many reasons why, but the main reason is that Danton Burroughs’ own Yell is nowadays a trademark of ERB inc. along with both of the Weissmuller yells.
Vijay Benedict did the most fabulous Tarzan yell of all time, for the Bollywood remake of the second continuity reboot to the Weissmuller films, The Adventures of Tarzan. He indeed was a Bollywood natural and his yell actually puts those of the late Johnny Weissmuller, the forgotten Scott Record and the elderly Brian Blessed to shame!
