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wanna put together a mix of songs with whistling solos... non-country especially appreciated (not saying country isn't awesome 'cause it is, it's just less unexpected.)
lonesome guy - john lennon

― bucket (bucket), Friday, 12 November 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Winds of Change" by Scorpions

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Love is A Battlefield" (right at the end) by Pat Benatar

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy Music - "Jealous Guy"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Frankie Knuckles - "The Whistle Song" (actually by Eric Kupper)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

guns n roses "patience"!!

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

cannanes "ern malley"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that song the Harlem Globetrotters play to?

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

whistle while you work, from snow white

― bucket (bucket), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Just Got Back" by Parliament -- greatest whistling solo ever.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Not quite the subject at hand, I know, but Billy Bragg used to have his live audiences whistle the trumpet solo from the "The Saturday Boy". It always sounded so beautiful.

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 12 November 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Otis Redding - "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"

Billy Joel - "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"

Billy Stewart - "Summertime" (almost)

and the Harlem Globetrotters song is "Sweet Georgia Brown."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Air - that one near the end of Talkie Walkie

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp - TV Movie
AC Newman - Drink To Me Babe Then

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't Worry, yous mugs, Be Happy

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Eric Idle and Monty Python singing "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"? Key lyric: "When chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, give a whistle."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Bridge on the River Kwai!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles - The Two Of Us (at the end?)

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Meat Puppets "Whistling Song".
Bjorn Olsson's albums have whistling out the wazoo.

― michael p. rainbow, Friday, 12 November 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that one by Roxette... dunno the name

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Warren G - Regulate

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there a novelty rap group called Whistle that had a hit called "Just Buggin'"? Did they in fact whistle on that track?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"lonesome guy - john lennon"

that's 'jealous' guy

"aint whistlin dixie no more" - taj mahal

― jesse, Friday, 12 November 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Marc Almond - "Mr. Sad"
Roger Whittaker, obv. "Mexican Whistler", for example.

Not quite the subject at hand, I know, but Billy Bragg used to have his live audiences whistle the trumpet solo from the "The Saturday Boy". It always sounded so beautiful.

Damn, I'd like to hear that.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Just Got Back" by Parliament -- greatest whistling solo ever.

seconded!

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Harry Irene

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

rammstein - engel

― :| (....), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Throbbing Gristle - Whistling Song

(I do not recommend this for a mixtape!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream

― Bobby M, Friday, 12 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hocus Pocus - Focus. A truly unhinged whistling 'solo' accompanied by a squeezebox

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah! That's a good one!!!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Die Matrosen" by KLEENEX/LILIPUT, covered by Book of Love

― dR sCOTT, Friday, 12 November 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mellow doubt by teenage fanclub.

― bg, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Saint Huck" by Nick Cave

― svn, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno's "Back In Judy's Jungle", if that's really whistling.

And, if you can stomach it, "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith.

The best rock whistle, though, is the singer whistling "giddyup" going into the guitar solo on Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster." Or maybe the guy in the crowd who whistles for like ten seconds straight during "Do You Feel Like We Do" on Frampton Comes Alive. Nameless whistlers on double live rock albums of the 70s, come forward!

― briania (briania), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Joel - "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"

May I suggest "The Stranger" as a better Wm. Joel song with whistling?

Also try "Red-Eyed & Blue" from Wilco's Being There

I hate it when my posts sound like a boring old rock critic's.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"white christmas"--bing!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

steve miller--"space cowboy"
wait...scratch that. that's his guitar making that sound! can you believe it?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Spookiest whistle: "Face On Breast" - Scott Walker

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Butterflies," Crimpshrine
"Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie No Mo," Taj Mahal

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello..."Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFarin? This is the first song that popped in my mind.

― yarjax14, Friday, 12 November 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Online Guide to Whistling Records
MP3's out the wazoo!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Games Without Frontiers" - Peter Gabriel

Whoever the Hell did "Whistle While You Twurk"

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever the Hell did "Whistle While You Twurk"

Ying Yang Twins.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 November 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Phish's 'Reba' is like 10 words and ten minutes of whistling.

― cdwill, Saturday, 13 November 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

hrvatski - "2nd zero fidelity mandible investigation"

maybe put this on the same mixtape as the throbbing gristle song, though. (xxxxxxxxxxpost)

― de Chastelard, Saturday, 13 November 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Andy Griffith tune.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Generation," hands down. Oh wait, that's an ENTw(h)istle solo.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, all good above.

the best whistling song I know is this totally obscure thing a friend of mine included on a mix CD, "Nola" by Sid Laverents. From 1970, more I do not know.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Late to the party but too good to leave out:

The Pogues - A Pistol for Paddy Garcia

― Harrison Fjord (Harrison Fjord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

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