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She Taught Me How to Yodel

song written by Paul Roberts and Tom Emerson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ117188296 ↗
Source-derived summary

"She Taught Me How to Yodel" is a song written by Paul Roberts and Tom Emerson.

The song was first recorded and released (under the title "She Taught to Yodel") by Elton Britt.

In the 1960s, it was a hit for Frank Ifield.

There is also a female version of the song, titled "He Taught Me How to Yodel" or "He Taught Me to Yodel", and it has been sung by the likes of Rosalie Allen and Margo Smith and, in the 2000s, Taylor Ware.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “She Taught Me How to Yodel” as song written by Paul Roberts and Tom Emerson. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Taught, Yodel and song can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as song written by Paul Roberts and Tom Emerson. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117188296. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “She Taught Me How to Yodel”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow She Taught Me How to Yodel primary sources, She Taught Me How to Yodel archive and Taught research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “She Taught Me How to Yodel”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “She Taught Me How to Yodel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.