Since you couldn’t get enough of Takeo Ischi last week, I found another YouTube video to satisfy your fascination with this chicken yodeler. He even has his own wiki page. Here’s a snippet about this 69 year old wonder:
“Ischi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. In high school, he was a loner, but it was during this time that he first heard yodeling on the radio. Following his father, Ischi went to university for mechanical engineering. In his spare time he became engrossed with the zither and the hammered dulcimer, and learned to play these instruments. Using Franzl Lang‘s records, he taught himself to yodel, and began performing on Japanese television. During a six-month period where he studied abroad in Germany, Ischi went to Switzerland, where he sang at a beer hall in Zurich. He soon started earning money from this. From there he sang in front of Lang, his idol, and Lang took him under his wing. He performed on television with Maria Hellwig, and after that became known in German language circles as the “Japanese yodeler.”
Enjoy.
he’s really excellent. I can imagine Germans / Swiss / Austrian fans of Volksmusik would really love this!
While browsing YouTube, I came across a very young Takeo Ischi in a 1983 performance, with some really fast yodeling towards the end. “Ich kann yodel!” he asserts to the host of the show — and he sure can! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjR012TK0yk
This is cool. Thanks for sharing Sue. 🙂