Hi WPRB! We wanted to start a blog series about music- and radio-related content.

So let’s talk about yodeling!

Imagine this: You’re an eighty-year-old Swiss man, standing at the top of a mountain next to another eighty year old man (your best friend and fellow chorus member for the last seventy or so years) and a bunch of other people, singing old Swiss yodeling songs in nineteen part harmony. I am not making this up. Switzerland is full of little yodeling groups, known as Jodlerclubs, with members between the ages of thirteen and eighty-five, singing songs that will literally make you cry. Continue reading →