"Little old layeeedee" my foot. Turns out there's a lot more to yodeling than some guy in lederhosen hollering at a mountaintop — or Minnie Pearl making fascinating sounds at the Grand Ole Opry.

LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could ...

Yodeling has been practiced probably for as long as humans have expressed themselves through song. But the singing style synonymous with Switzerland and its Alpine neighbors hasn’t always been a crowd ...

Whether heard echoing through the Alps as a mountain cry made by herders in suspenders, featured in Scandinavian folk music or morphed by Tarzan in his yodel-like call, chances are you’ve encountered ...

Green County, Wisconsin, a land of gently rolling hills and verdant green fields that reminded early Swiss and German immigrants of their European homes in the mid-1800s. Even now that cheese heritage ...

The Swiss government is looking for a shout-out from the U.N. cultural agency to include yodeling on its list of intangible cultural heritage LUCERNE, Switzerland -- Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those ...