Germanic types in yodeling copyright tussle What's exactly in a yodel that brings a rosy hue to the milkmaid's cheek and spins the goatherd's lederhosen in knots? In the world of Alpine folk music, it's no mere idle question to echo off the walls. The falsetto refrain "Holla-rä-di-ri, di-ri, di-ri" to one of the German language's most famous yodeling songs was at the …
@norman bottomly - watch it, those Germanic types will kick your *ss for insulting their yodeling. Then it'll take another 40 countries to put them down (a-la Monty Python) "a second, er... third time". The yodeling does sound better when you're drunk, though. Maybe that's why it's survived so long.
So 60 years ago someone had an idea for a song and ever since then they (and their heirs) have been getting paid for it.
Its just as well his idea wasn't for a cure for cancer or something just as trivial. If it had been his patent would have run out decades ago.
There's a German TV channel more or less devoted to playing this stuff. I thought they were having a laugh when I first saw it, but they're serious.
This is why many foreigners coming to live in Germany suddenly develop an interest in receiving TV from their homeland (or just somewhere not DE, A or CH).
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