Yee-ha(w) / "Rebel yell"

[Sam Clements]

What am I, chopped liver?

I can assure you that Stan Freeberg uses that yell on his 1955 song "The
Yellow Rose of Texas."

Sam Clements


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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Yee-ha(w) / "Rebel yell"


> It's hard for me to imagine that if current "Yeeha(w)" was anywhere nearly
> as current in 1964 Slim (an old cowboy actor) wouldn't have yelled it.
>
>  Will check _Red River_ ASAP.
>
>  JL
>
> Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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> On 12/4/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>> > I thought I remembered Slim Pickens as Major T.J. "King" Kong shouting
>> > "Yeehaw!" in the climactic bombing scene of _Dr. Strangelove_ (1964),
>> > but according to this site it was actually "Yahoo!"
>> >
>> > http://www.filmsite.org/drst4.html
>>
>>
>> Such transcriptions are unreliable, as we know.
>>
>> I'll rent _Red River_ if Ben will do the same for _Dr. Strangelove_.
>
> No need to rent _Dr. Strangelove_ when we have the miracle of Youtube:
>
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=uK4s9gwgUvs
>
> Sounds like a series of "yahoo"/"wahoo"-type utterances to me.
>
> Youtube lacks the "yeehaw" scene from _Red River_, unfortunately.
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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