"Daddy" Grobecker's Swiss Yodlers

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Daddy Grobecker's Swiss Yodlers
THIS company is composed of genuine Swiss Yodlers presenting to the American public a program of true Swiss mountain folk-lore, full of educational as well as entertainment features.  Daddy Grobecker, as he is affectionately called by his people, is the manager of the company.

The Yodlers appear in their picturesque Swiss mountain attire and sing Swiss yodle songs in English translations secured by Daddy Grobecker himself.

Swiss yodle songs in solos, duets, trios and ensemble numbers are interspersed with popular and standard American numbers, also instrumental music which is rendered on the unique musical instruments of the Swiss mountaineers.

YODLING is a highly cultivated art, and dates back, we are told, to the days when the early inhabitants of the Alpine country, in their high mountainous abode, found it difficult to communicate with one another.  They soon discovered that certain calls would carry far in the thin, clear mountain air, and agreed among themselves that a certain sound would indicate the approach of a storm; another, invasion by an enemy; and still another, glad tidings.  In the course of time this means of communication was developed into a series of highly melodious mountain calls.

These calls form a pleasing and patriotic method by which the Alpine people show affection for their native land and for their friends.  The most melodious and pleasing of these calls, as well as many of the most difficult, have been selected and arranged for use in the program of Grobecker's Swiss Yodlers.





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A Typical Press Comment
(From an Appreciation in The Morning Sun, Binghampton, N. Y.)
Daddy Grobecker and his Swiss Yodlers scored a clean hit before an audience of 1,000 people in Community Hall last evening at the opening concert of the Community Entertainment course.  An appreciative audience listened attentively to the native Swiss songs, yodling, instrumental selections and applauded impersonations by an excellent company.

Daddy Grobecker, director of the company, opened the concert with a short history and description of Switzerland.  Dressed in the quaint costume of the Alps and wearing a cute little hat, the manipulation of which brought bursts of laughter from the audience, he acted as starter, engine and speedometer of the talented quintet.

The yodling of the entire company treated Bing-hampton folks to something rare in the form of amusement.  It sounded altogether different from the American yodling.  The entertainment was as a whole an education in itself.  Many more people than arrangements had been made for crowded into the hall and even with two people sitting on a single seat, dozens were forced to stand.  They were well repaid for their effort.

Some of the best numbers by the company were: Happy Is the Life of the Swiss Mountaineer; Break of Day in the Alps; Be Happy, My Lasses, Be Happy, and The Cow Song.