Rebel Yell

[Guest SUNTZU]

I found this while searching youtube. It is a recording from the 30's, I think, of a surviving Confederate soldier showing the producer at a radio station the Rebel yell. They then take that and simulate a company of Confederate soldiers as they are charging towards you on a battlefield. The audio of the yell starts at 2:54.

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[Punisher84]

I found this while searching youtube. It is a recording from the 30's, I think, of a surviving Confederate soldier showing the producer at a radio station the Rebel yell. They then take that and simulate a company of Confederate soldiers as they are charging towards you on a battlefield. The audio of the yell starts at 2:54.

Well. That was the strangest thing I've ever heard.

I would have liked to be a part of this charge. Fictional as it may be, but it still gives me chills.

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[Smith]

Man! Sounds like some weird coyotes coming at you. Must have sounded pretty freaky to the Union soldiers to have a whole company coming at you like that.

As Billy Idol said, "With a Rebel yell she cried more, more, more!"

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That would scare the crap outta me. Imagine that sound coming toward you in the middle of the night.

[Punisher84]

That would scare the crap outta me. Imagine that sound coming toward you in the middle of the night.

OK I'll give ya that

[Guest SUNTZU]

They had some great cinematography in that movie.

[Punisher84]

They had some great cinematography in that movie.

Those movies were just brilliant. I got to see FotR before it even came out at a screening and seeing it on the big screen was overwhelming. Yes, I am a nerd.

[Guest SUNTZU]

It seems to me that most people think that YeeHaw is the rebel yell. Like the video says, I'm sure there are many variations. It is really cool, though, to hear one of the real ones. And yes, I would not like to be the boy in blue who was listening to that coming through the fog at me, either.

[Guest bkelm18]

That's really interesting. Always nice to learn something about history from the source.

[Almond27]

Very interesting, I didn't picture their yell being like that.

[Guest jackdog]

Awesome. I wish I knew a way to record that. What a great thing to play in the dead of night when you house guest.

[Guest bkelm18]

True Story

A couple years ago while my ship was cruising the Caribbean playing war games with various Latin American navies and just generally having a presence to tell Hugo Chavez that he need to chill the f*ck out, we had a steel beach picnic. There was a band playing and they were playing "Sweet Home Alabama". There was a guy in my division, fat and possibly mentally deficient, who was a hard core southerner. He even carried a picture of himself dressed in Rebel garb in his wallet. Anyway, this is apparently his favorite song and we were all egging him on to give us a rebel yell. He did and it sounded quite similar to the recording and it frightened me to where I just about crapped myself. So I'd say a few thousand rebels doing that would strike fear into many a Union soldier.

[Garufa]

That's what I'm thinking.

I guess that's what all my kin sounded like!

[TripleDigitRide]

And to think, all this time I thought the horn from the General Lee was the official Rebel Yell.

[Punisher84]

And to think, all this time I thought the horn from the General Lee was the official Rebel Yell.

It was but apparently not everyone could properly run and scream "DUH DUH DUH DUN DUH DUH DUN DUN DUN!"

[Guest bkelm18]

It was but apparently not everyone could properly run and scream "DUH DUH DUH DUN DUH DUH DUN DUN DUN!"

I move to vote that Punisher84 post a video of himself demonstrating this rebel yell. All in favor?

[Punisher84]

I move to vote that Punisher84 post a video of himself demonstrating this rebel yell. All in favor?

Tempt me not...

Motion denied unless member that brought the motion agrees to provide video of himself performing the truffle shuffle.

[Farman]

The original Rebel Yell was bottled in 1849.

Edited February 10, 2009 by Farman
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[Guest bkelm18]

Tempt me not...

Motion denied unless member that brought the motion agrees to provide video of himself performing the truffle shuffle.

Motion denied, aye. The absolute power of my truffle shuffle frightens small children, and this is a public forum, soo ya know..

[Guest SUNTZU]

I'm not doing the truffle shuffle, as TN already has one Reelfoot Lake.

[Guest Rick O'Shay]

Thanks for posting The Yell.

[bteague2]

If the video/thread hadn't had a caption, just from listening I would have thought that was an indian battle cry.