# What was the last tune you whistled or hummed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103 "2019-09-12T14:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/21 "2019-09-12T18:37:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Whose version, though? I like Willie’s cover. And then there’s Boz Scaggs song _Georgia_, another graet one. You made me remember, I heard it watching 2 episodes of ‘Designing Women’ the other night. So, Ray Charles’ version. I like Willie’s too. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/22 "2019-09-13T12:22:56Z")
Of all things, [Alone Again, Naturally](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8) by Gilbert O’Sullivan, which I haven’t heard or thought of in years. Now that’s an earworm I definitely don’t want. j ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/23 "2019-09-13T12:29:54Z")
I randomly start whistling “Hail to the Chief” several times per week, for no discernible reason. I just really like it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/24 "2019-09-13T13:22:54Z")
Whistling [Already All Ready](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pq8MAeqS0&list=PLqJn2zzctwUAukKTFzGKCJ_Nrf-ChJ36Y&index=41&t=0s) at Zumba yesterday evening. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/25 "2019-09-13T14:09:47Z")
I watched A Very Brady Makeover on HGTV Monday evening. I’ve been singing and humming It’s A Sunshine Day ever since. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/26 "2019-09-13T14:27:12Z")
I literally was just whistling the chorus from Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian.” Came up on the radio this morning, and got me wondering whether they had any other hits, or if they were truly a one-hit wonder, though I don’t remember them showing up on one-hit wonder lists. Looking it up now, it seems “Sister Christian” did make the Top 10, though peaking at #5, and they had a song called “Sentimental Street” that made it to #8 (though, listening to it right now, I have no recollection of that song.) ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/27 "2019-09-13T14:40:35Z")
Probably “Pumped up Kicks”. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/28 "2019-09-13T14:59:40Z")
Just this morning I woke up humming (and singing in my head) The Eagles’ _Take It Easy_. I must have had a dream about it or had that song in a dream while I was asleep because I don’t think I’ve actually heard that song in ages. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/29 "2019-09-13T15:15:01Z")
The Schuyler Sisters, from Hamilton ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/30 "2019-09-13T15:15:10Z")
I was just humming Fred Blassie’s “Pencil Neck Geek” to myself a short while ago. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/31 "2019-09-13T15:30:08Z")
This morning I was whistling “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am” by Herman’s Hermits. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/32 "2019-09-13T15:57:03Z")
“Waltzing Matilda” has been my ‘tune du jour’ all morning. I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/33 "2019-09-13T16:19:25Z")
On Wed. I listened to Springsteen’s _Jungleland_ on the way to the pool. Whistled along to the sax bit, of course. And then on my own here and there since then. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/34 "2019-09-13T17:33:39Z")
Due to the RIP thread, I’ve been humming Shakin by Eddie Money. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/35 "2019-09-13T17:39:22Z")
“When Johnny comes Marching Home Again”. ---
**Author:** ![Crossbreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Crossbreed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crossbreed)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/36 "2019-09-14T09:24:58Z")
“Born Free” Someone brought up the fad of “pet rocks” and I pointed out that it wasn’t right to keep them in captivity…! ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/37 "2019-09-14T13:18:17Z")
Today it’s “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/38 "2019-09-14T13:45:51Z")
Saw _Pirates Of Penzance_ last night, so I am whistling “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”…sometimes at double-speed. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/39 "2019-09-14T14:47:25Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > [Possession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2bcKRbMZI) by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, from the Get Happy album. Don’t know why, but it popped up in my mind today and I whistled the great bass part. I also had the thought that the melody of the song reminded me of church hymns. All it took was reading your first word, and I started humming the bass line (well, beatboxing as low as I can go, it’s a bass line). Thanks, I guess… I know I’ll be doing that all day. It’s actually a problem for me; I always have a song or two running through my head… and sometimes they spill out into the real world. I’ll be reading at a coffee place and notice someone look at me and I think “Uh, oh, did I just hum that out loud?” I’ve taken to putting in earbuds and listening to audiobooks, which overrides the internal “Top 100 Songs I’ve Ever Heard”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103/40 "2019-09-14T17:21:21Z")
The theme to the Christopher Reeve “Superman” movies. I was playing with a kazoo. I can’t whistle [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-tune-you-whistled-or-hummed/840103.md?page=3)