how about “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba” by Handel?
So many notes, so quickly. Been trying to whistle it for years.
how about “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba” by Handel?
So many notes, so quickly. Been trying to whistle it for years.
“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by the Crash Test Dummies.
When I’m playing Cranium, and I get a “team play” “humdinger”, I know I’m in trouble.
I always end up laughing. Its hard to hum when you’re laughing. My rendition sounds like a machine gun: “hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm”.
So, in that case, there is not a single song I can hum.
There’s a repeating 11-note theme near the end of Paul Hindemith’s Mathis Der Maler which involves weird harmonies because it uses each note of the chromatic scale once, which I’ve never been able to hum with any confidence, despite the fact that I think it’s gorgeous.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. The whole thing.
Any song that features yodeling.
Green Onions and Take Five are hard, Barracuda too. Some are too easy like Be-Bop-A-Lula, but I don’t even attempt any Metallica songs.
I’m willing to bet that in the intervening 21 years there are at least three such things to appear!!
Mr. Cage’s 4’33’'.
A lot of these suggestions seem to miss the point. Sure, there are songs that are hard to hum correctly, but the standard here is just that they be recognizable. I can easily hum, say, “Smells like Teen Spirit” or “The Star-Spangled Banner” well enough that a listener (who knows the song) would recognize it.
I’d say that’s the EASIEST song to hum.
Revolution #9.
Whenever I’m humming my usual Bartok or Schoenberg at the local Thrifty’s, shoppers are always turning toward me and nodding in self-satisfied approval - “oh right - that one! - catchy!”
4’33" is very easy to hum correctly, but so difficult to recognize that most people wouldn’t even realize you were humming a song at all.
If rap works count as “songs”, then I expect many of them would be nearly impossible.