# Good Whistling songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772 "2005-07-01T23:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/1 "2005-07-01T23:42:38Z")
I’m posting a thread that I have a feeling will die a quick, but painless death, but, I’ll give it a shot anyway. What are some good songs that either feature whistling, or that you like to whistle (as oppose to sing or hum)? For good songs with whistling in them _Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay_ by **Odis Redding** _Daydream_ by **Lovin’ Spoonful** _Winds of change_ - **The Scorpions** and _Patience_ by **Guns 'N Roses** So, what do you have to add to the list? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/2 "2005-07-01T23:59:23Z")
I like to whistle The Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth. I’m not sure I do justice to it, of course… ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/3 "2005-07-02T00:02:01Z")
> [@Master Control](#): > > I’m posting a thread that I have a feeling will die a quick, but painless death… In my dreams. Now, though, my mind is beginning to overflow with whistling tunes. I recognize **Master Control** ’s first two songs only. (Perhaps I can live a while longer before hearing the other two.) In return… “A Whistling Tune”, “Whistling In The Dark”, and you too can search for such titles. “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” and “Colonel Bogey March”. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/4 "2005-07-02T00:03:11Z")
[Just be careful.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323357) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/5 "2005-07-02T00:07:58Z")
The theme song of the “Andy Griffith Show” And just about anything by Leroy Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/6 "2005-07-02T00:29:50Z")
My own favorite song to whistle is the theme from Disney’s “Robin Hood”, also turned into that annoying Hamsterdance song. Dee da dee da dee da doh doh Dee da dee dee doh! Great song! ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/7 "2005-07-02T00:51:39Z")
The theme to _The Garry Shandling Show_. ---
**Author:** ![Axel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@Axel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Axel)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/8 "2005-07-02T00:56:57Z")
‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.’ ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/9 "2005-07-02T00:57:14Z")
Just thought of a couple more. The theme to _The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly_. And I just remembered the episodes of the Simpons where they Homer and Lisa hear the song from the Egyptian egg, but afterwards, Homer whistles the Old Spice theme. Hey, I got a song, that, while containing no whistling, is a good song to whistle. But I shouldn’t share because people will be ticked off at me because they won’t be able to get it out of their heads. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/10 "2005-07-02T00:58:44Z")
> [@Axel](#): > > ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.’ Oh hell, I was whistling that a couple of days ago, I can’t believe I forgot about it. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/11 "2005-07-02T02:03:02Z")
Here’s two: “Jealous Guy” by John Lennon “Golden Years” by David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/12 "2005-07-02T03:11:51Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And just about anything by Leroy Anderson. I’d love to hear a well-whistled rendition of “Bugler’s Holiday”. Also “Saber Dance” and “Flight of the Bumble Bee”. Whether or not he ever drew it, I can imagine a Gary Larson cartoon where The Lone Ranger is riding to the rescue while the “William Tell Overture” is whistled. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/13 "2005-07-02T03:42:30Z")
The piccolo part to “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by J.P. Sousa. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/14 "2005-07-02T03:43:39Z")
The theme from Sanford and Son. One time a NCO I work with came into the office and said “I was walking down the hallway, whistling that song, and the major said 'Stop it, or I’ll have that running through my head all day.” So half of our shop went down the hall, intending to whistle it as we passed his office, when the major came around the corner. We just cracked up. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/15 "2005-07-02T03:44:49Z")
Two more. (Self to brain: “Please give it a rest.”)… “Ue O Muite Aruko”, AKA “I Look Up When I Walk” AKA “Sukiyaki” by **Kyu Sakamoto** And who among you has been on a flight where the pilot whistled the theme to “The High and the Mighty”? ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/16 "2005-07-02T03:53:25Z")
“My Cherie Amour” There’s a street performer around my office who can whistle this with harmony. I’m not quite that talented. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/17 "2005-07-02T05:07:39Z")
I dig the whistling bits in Billy Joel’s _The Stranger_. But I won’t sing that song at karaoke, because I can’t reproduce it. And yes, I _do_ know that from humiliating experience. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/18 "2005-07-02T14:17:56Z")
“The Poor People of Paris” by Les Baxter and his orchestra (1956). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/19 "2005-07-02T14:50:41Z")
> [@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker](#): > > “The Poor People of Paris” by Les Baxter and his orchestra (1956). There were at least three “whistling songs” I associate with that period: **Lisbon Antigua** **Moritat** (later better known as **Mack The Knife** ) **Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White** and now that they’re finally releasing the movie to DVD: **The High and The Mighty** ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772/20 "2005-07-02T14:54:47Z")
Does anybody remember an old radio drama called _The Whistler_? That was one weird tune to try to whistle. I keep trying to find a website that traffics in Old Time Radio that might have the tune itself. So far, no luck, [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-whistling-songs/310772.md?page=2)