Sing, Sing a Song...

[dcseain]

Kenny Rogers' The Gambler came on the radio while i was on the way to work. Singing along with it took me back 16 years, to my many weekend visits to Cornell, where a lot of my friends went to school. Where I would stand in the stairwell of the North Campus student union and sing country and western standards while other danced. Happy times that. I don't get to sing enough nowadays.

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

It's unclear where the yodeling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodel) in both Appalachian and Western music came from. There were undoubtedly Germanic settlers in Appalachia... but Mexico was a German colony for a significant time ("¡Adiós, Mama Carlota!"). I suspect both American yodeling styles are ultimately Germanic in origin, but evolved along slightly different paths before converging again.