List of songs featuring whistling
List of songs featuring whistling:
- "Right on the Money" by Alan Jackson features whistling.
- Ronnie Ronalde, world famous music hall singer, whistler, yodeler and imitator of bird song included whistling in many of his songs. Perhaps his two most famous are "In a Monastery Garden" and "If I Were a Blackbird".
- The theme tune to The Great Escape was whistled in the film and the tune is frequently sung at English national team football matches
- Elmo Tanner, who appeared with the Ted Weems Orchestra, had a major hit whistling on the song "Heartaches"
- Mando Diao singer Björn Dixgård whistles on the song "Ochrasy" from the album Ode To Ochrasy.
- Pat Boone does his own whistling on his hit "Love Letters in the Sand". He sometimes teases audiences with the aside, "You didn't think it was me, did you?"
- Brother Bones recorded the whistling version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" used as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Edward Kowalczyk from the band Live whistled on the outro for the song "Waitress" on the album Throwing Copper.
- Muzzy Marcelino whistled the hit theme to the 1950s airplane drama, The High and the Mighty
- Whistling Jack Smith had a hit with "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman"
- The "Colonel Bogey March" was whistled in the film Bridge on the River Kwai to avoid the song's vulgar lyrics
- "Whistle While You Work" appeared in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Meade Lux Lewis whistles a melody and several solos in his "Whistlin' Blues"
- "The Fishin' Hole" (theme to The Andy Griffith Show). It has become a cultural icon associated with the image of Andy Griffith and Ron Howard. Andy and Opie Taylor walk on the dirt road with their cane poles on their way to the "fishin' hole". The music was written by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, and the lyrics were by Everett Sloane.
- Bobby McFerrin used whistling for nearly all of the music in his hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
- Axl Rose whistled the intro to the Guns N' Roses song "Patience", which appears on the Guns N' Roses album G N' R Lies. He also whistled some parts of the Guns N' Roses song "Civil War", which appears on the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II.
- Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer-composer-entertainer and one the most influential virtuoso whistlers in Europe. Legendary songs are "Le ragtime de l'homme orchestre" and "Le petit oiseau dans le foret" ("Little bird in the forest"), both live 1955. Also: "Der mund voll tricks" (1954), "Chinese whistler" (1962); "Der pfeifer und sein schatten" ("The Whistler and his Shadow") and "Der verliebte pfeifer" ("Beloved Whistler").
- Harry Nilsson, singer was a virtuoso whistler who incorporated the technique on a handful of his songs, notably, "Wasting my time", "I never thought I'd be this lonely", "she sits down on me" and the outro to "the most beautiful world in the world."
- Otis Redding whistled the last lines of "Dock of the Bay", allegedly because, at the end of a long recording day, he couldn't remember the rest of the text.[1]
- Professor Longhair remade some of hits, including "Big Chief", replacing his vocals with whistling.
- The Meat Puppets include whistling in the aptly-titled "The Whistling Song".
- Scorpions also whistle on the song called "Wind of Change".
- Billy Joel whistles at the beginning and at the end of the song called "The Stranger".
- Juelz Santana features a whistle in the hook of "There It Go (The Whistle Song)"
- Whistling is incorporated in the song "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?", in the Broadway play and film, My Fair Lady.
- One of the verses of "Walk Like An Egyptian" by The Bangles is whistled.
- The song "Whistle Stop" in the Disney film Robin Hood is mostly whistled.
- Many songs by Andrew Bird.
- Much whistling is featured in the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", in the Monty Python film The Life of Brian
- The song "The Whistler and His Dog" by composer Arthur Pryor has a significant whisting sequence, and dog barking.
- "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band
- The intro to "Engel" on the album Sehnsucht by Rammstein
- A verse of "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard" by Paul Simon. The Simon and Garfunkel song "Punky's Dilemma" also features whistling as it fades out.
- Post-hardcore band, Circle Takes the Square begins their As the Roots Undo album with a lone whistler.
- Swedish pop combo Peter Bjorn and John feature whistling in the track "Young Folk" from their album Writer's Block.
- Liz Phair's song Support System from the album "Whip-Smart" features whistling during the chorus.
- The Newsboys song "Breakfast" has a verse that is whistled.
- The Roxette song "Joyride" features whistled sections.
- Billy Don't Be a Hero by Paper Lace has prominent whistling sections.
- Morrissey whistles in the intro of "I Keep Mine Hidden" by The Smiths.
- Morrissey also whistles in the song "How Soon Is Now?" also by The Smiths. It is slightly obscured by the guitars, however.
- 10cc's song I'm Mandy, Fly Me includes whistling in its introduction.
- The song Oh, What a Wonderful Feeling in the movie Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! features whistling, both in the first appearance of the song and in the finale of the movie.
- The song Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) by Ween on the album Pure Guava features whistling.
- John Lennon's song Jealous Guy has whistling in both John Lennon's version and in the famous 1981 version recorded by Roxy Music.
- John Lennon also whistles on the fade-out of The Beatles 1969 song Two of Us.[2]
- In 1998, Neil Finn issued an album appropriately titled "Try Whistling This".
- The Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra songs "Kimi To Boku" and "Filmmakers Bleed" both feature whistling.
- Songs issued on 78s featuring whistling include
- I'll stand beneath your window and whistle by Stanley Kirkby and T.R. Prendergast
- Whistlin' blues by Meade "Lux" Lewis
- G. Love & Special Sauce have a whistle melody in the song "Lay Down The Law".
- "Fkn Rebellion" by Texan folk-punk band, Punkin Pie features a second verse whistle solo.
- Peter Gabriel's anti-war song "Games Without Frontiers" from 1980's release Peter Gabriel III features whistling in the chorus.
- The Supertramp hit "Goodbye Stranger", featured in Magnolia (film), contains a short whistled melody in the middle.
- Rickie Lee Jones recorded an album of standards in 1991 called Pop Pop which features a version of "I Won't Grow Up" with a whistling solo.
- DeVotchKa's "The Enemy Guns" contains whistling throughout.
- Cat Power's "After It All" prominently features whistling throughout.
- "Jeep on 35" off of the John Scofield release "A Go Go" has the melody line doubled by whistling in parts. Scofield is backed by Medeski, Martin and Wood on this album.
- Bob Sinclar's "World, Hold On (Children of the Sky)"
- Goldfrapp hit "Lovely Head" in 2001.
- Sting's first solo single "Spread A Little Happiness" in 1982.
- The Mad Caddies song "Mary Melody" has a section of whistling in the middle.
- In the song "Schrei Nach Liebe", by German punk rock band Die Ärzte, the main melody is whistled at the end.
References
Hocus Pocus by Focus. Song that features yodeling and Whistleing
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