--- title: Walmart Yodeling Kid Melted Hearts All Over Again on Ellen description: Mason Ramsey, aka "Walmart yodeling kid," of Golconda, Ill. yodeled on "The Ellen Show" and shared his dream of doing a Grand Ole Opry show. canonical: https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-11T15:20:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:38:31.000Z og:title: The Walmart Yodeling Kid Performed on 'Ellen' and Melted Hearts All Over Again og:description: Mason Ramsey, the yodeling kid of Walmart, has proven himself a crowd favorite og:url: https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Walmart Yodeling Kid Performed on 'Ellen' and Melted Hearts All Over Again twitter:description: Mason Ramsey, the yodeling kid of Walmart, has proven himself a crowd favorite twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Walmart Yodeling Kid Performed on _Ellen_ and Melted Hearts All Over Again > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:38 PM UTCPublished: Apr 11, 2018 3:20 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:38 PM UTCPublished: Apr 11, 2018 3:20 PM UTC Mason Ramsey of Golconda, Illinois, perhaps best known as the [“Walmart yodeling kid,”](http://time.com/5225039/walmart-yodeling-boy-video-goes-viral/) is having a great spring. Not only did a video of him yodeling Hank Williams Sr.’s “Lovesick Blues” in a Walmart promptly [go viral online](http://time.com/5230726/prince-harry-yodeling-kid-walmart-meme/), turning him into an overnight sensation, but he even got Ellen DeGeneres’s attention. On Tuesday, the internet’s favorite yodeling kid flew out for an appearance on _The Ellen Show_, reprising his performance of the country tune in his now-signature yodeling warble and sharing some tidbits about his daily life and aspirations. In his chat with DeGeneres, Mason noted that this was his first time on an airplane. He also got to ride in the back of a limo and taste sparkling water, his first go-round with that beverage as well. But it doesn’t seem like his brush with Hollywood is changing him much. “I’m a country boy,” he explained to DeGeneres. His dream is to someday sing at Nashville’s famous [Grand Ole Opry](http://time.com/4925184/us-attractions-visit/) theater. To get there, he’s been practicing by performing yodeling at his local Walmart, which he chose as his public venue because it’s “the only store we’ve got.” It’s his normal stomping grounds; apparently he’s yodeled there somewhere around “50,000 times.”As for his future? “I’m gonna save up all that money, and I’m gonna go to college, and I’m gonna move to Florida, and I’m gonna work my way up in a motor home,” he outlined for DeGeneres. Ramsey’s singing has hit a nerve: Streams of the song “Lovesick Blues” are up nearly 2,500% on Spotify since his video went viral, and the classic country tune continues to climb Spotify’s Global Viral 50 chart, which is currently topped by new releases from [Cardi B](http://time.com/5233256/cardi-b-meeting-beyonce/) and [The Weeknd](http://time.com/5220817/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-47/item/hurt-you-the-weeknd/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/"},"headline":"The Walmart Yodeling Kid Performed on Ellen and Melted Hearts All Over Again","datePublished":"2018-04-11T15:20:14.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:38:31.000Z","description":"He's a meme with a voice","url":"https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/","name":"The Walmart Yodeling Kid Performed on Ellen and Melted Hearts All Over Again"}}]}] ```