YODELING

YODELING Yodeling , a sudden change from a chest voice to a falsetto head voice, originated centuries ago in the Swiss mountains, and probably entered the repertoire of Southern country musicians through traveling tent shows of the nineteenth century. Country-music scholars commonly believe the first singer to make a record featuring yodeling was RILEY PUCKETT, the popular Georgia country artist. Another early yodeler was the minstrel singer EMMETT MILLER , who in the late 1920s recorded…