Well-known and loved for decades, the television/radio star yodeler Takeo Ishi is now going viral on the internets with this hilarious WTF and beautiful music video entitled: "New Bibi-chicken":
Ishi began yodeling as a student and practiced in the mountains of Japan. He joined the "Alpine Yodeling" club and wound up on Japanese TV in a short time. He then went to Switzerland and sang in a restaurant for tourists and was immediately hired. That was the beginning of a 20+ year singing career in Europe. Along the way he teamed up with master yodeler Franzl Lang and since then has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows throughout Europe. Now he is becoming very popular on the web. He lives in Germany with his family and is very highly regarded as an amazing talent in the genre of yodel music.
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5/5/12
Yodeler Takeo Ishi Sings "New Bibi-chicken"
Well-known and loved for decades, the television/radio star yodeler Takeo Ishi is now going viral on the internets with this hilarious WTF and beautiful music video entitled: "New Bibi-chicken":
Ishi began yodeling as a student and practiced in the mountains of Japan. He joined the "Alpine Yodeling" club and wound up on Japanese TV in a short time. He then went to Switzerland and sang in a restaurant for tourists and was immediately hired. That was the beginning of a 20+ year singing career in Europe. Along the way he teamed up with master yodeler Franzl Lang and since then has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows throughout Europe. Now he is becoming very popular on the web. He lives in Germany with his family and is very highly regarded as an amazing talent in the genre of yodel music.
See also:
Julie Watai & mishmash* Debut Single "Roll of Love"
Japan's #1 Forever Alone Musician
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This is like WTF, OMFG, LOL, ROFL, WTF Japan, Meanwhile in Switzerland and a massive overload of awesome all in one.
ReplyDeleteI can't stop watching this strange and hypnotic video. Someone needs to upload a 12 hour version of this to youtube.
ReplyDeleteAll of a sudden Japanese TV makes perfect sense to me now...
ReplyDelete"Yodel singing"? That sounds engrishy to me.
ReplyDeleteNo he's singing in the Barvarian language and clucking away just like a chicken! So maybe it's a kind of "cluckery"?!?! Whatever, you just gotta love this guy. d=(^o^)=b
ReplyDeleteYODEL: "AH LA LE II HI LA LA LO II HI AH LA LE II HI
ReplyDeleteAH LA LE II HI LA LA LO II HI AH LA LE II HI
AH LA LE II HI LA LA LO II HI AH LA LE II HI"
All of us would be singing like this if the Germans and the Japanese had won WWII.
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