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"whistling" songs

firepoint525

firepoint525

Songs that have whistling in them, probably more of them than even I realize! Here are a few of my favorites to start us off:

The Beatles, "Two of Us" (John whistles at the end of that one.)
J. Geils Band, "Centerfold"
The Andy Griffith Show theme (obviously)
It's Garry Shandling Show's theme (He (the singer) even references in the lyrics that he is about to whistle!)
Otis Redding, "Dock of the Bay" (whistles to fadeout)
 
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman by Whistling Jack Smith (1967)
 
Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow
Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
Winds of Change - Scorpions
 
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles

...and how could we forget the biggest-selling single of all time?

White Christmas - Bing Crosby
 
Whistle In is a very short track on the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile album. It has whistling---as if you couldn't tell from the title!
 
New World in the Morning -- Roger Whittaker

Whittaker is a noted whistler and no doubt has worked whistling into many more songs, but this is the one that comes immediately to mind.
 
Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles
Jealous - John Lennon
Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day (ending)
 
Walkin' The Dog - Rufus Thomas

Ken Minyard, former morning co-host on KABC in Los Angeles, made the observation that most men never whistle an actual song when they whistle---they whistle just a series of random notes. I started paying attention when I hear men whistling...and Minyard is right. Men whistle random notes and very seldom whistle a tune. But why?
 
Silkie said:
Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band
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Another SMB song, "The Joker," features the "wolf whistle" played on electric guitar. Are there any songs on which that well-known two-note whistle is actually whistled?
 
CT, how about the "wolf whistle" that is played on guitar at the beginning of Bobby Rydell's I Dig Girls?
 
LARadioRewind said:
CT, how about the "wolf whistle" that is played on guitar at the beginning of Bobby Rydell's I Dig Girls?
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That's not actually whistled either, of course. Hard to believe nobody's every used a human whistle for those two notes in a song.

Another one for the list:
Michael (Row the Boat Ashore) -- Highwaymen
 
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