“Sukiyaki” has passages of whistling, too.
Try whistling when you have a touch of stage nerves.
I think the Stone Temple Pilots’ “Atlanta” has some whistling. Really works with the dreamy atmosphere.
“Always Look On The Bright Side of Life” from the end of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”. Unfortunately I’m usually laughing so much that I can’t whistle along!
I too am a whistler – amateur, certainly, but a whistler nonetheless.
I saw a piece on the telly about a feller who was a really good whistler, I suppose you might call him a virtuoso. He too was complaining about the seeming prejudice against whistling as a valid musical form. He was trying to get in with an orchestra to whistle the soloist part to whatever music it was.
I’d watch that.
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Here’s an acquaintance of mine who is a terrific whistler (and a great be-bop clarinetist, too. And he kicks butt with a recorder… nice guy.
Since this is about music, I’ll move this thread to Cafe Society.
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Oddly enough, I not only whistle on the inhale and exhale, I sing that way too. Of course, singing while inhaling doesn’t sound all that great, but it gives me a substantially higher range.
Anyway, on the first album by Men without Hats, “I Sing Last/Not for Tears” ends with a great whistled coda. Yes, that’s Men without Hats as in “Safety Dance”, and yes, I own all their albums, or at least, all the ones available in the US.
Shut up.
Because it is so ungodly annoying.
Several years ago, I worked in a casino dealing cards. Everynight the lounge act played “Sitting by the dock of the bay” by Otis Redding. This song stays in your brain and not let go. If Otis wasn’t already dead, I would shoot him.
SP
Bob Marley’s “Don’t Worry, be Happy” has whistling.
Bob Marley? Bobby McFerrin.
And the Arthur Pryor classic, “The Whistler and His Dog”
On the CBS sunday show they had a segment on whistling. There is some sort of museum/school, and a competition. I was quite impressed by the people in the competition.
Brian
The two big whistling tunes:
The Andy Griffith’s Theme
And of course Sweet Georgia Brown as covered by the Harlem Globetrotters
Toots Thielemans, the great jazz harmonica player, whistles to great effect on many of his LPs.
If you want an example of an expert whistler, check into the recordings of Ron McCroby – he called his “instrument” the “puccolo”. He had many jazz recording sessions accompanying other well-known artists. Another one in the jazz milieu is Steve Herbst.
Bing Crosby whistled in “White Christmas”. The Harlem Globetrotters theme is a whistled version of “Sweet Georgia Brown”. And don’t forget the theme from the western “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. And of course, the TV series “The Andy Griffith Show”.
For an example of group whistling, check “Colonel Bogie’s March” from Bridge on the River Kwai.
As for pitch, I can whistle accurately enough to “zero beat” another instrument or whistler. In fact, I sometimes use that ability to demonstrate the “zero beat” phenomenon to someone by having them whistle and then matching my pitch to theirs. At which point, their jaw often drops open, and they stop whistling! 
When I worked in a restaurant kitchen, I whistled a lot, and never had any complaints. In fact, I often got requests!
And I agree with some of the other posters that bad whistling is terrible and may indeed be the reason why whistling is held in such low esteem.
I liked his mother.
Sorry.
So does “One in a Million”. They were both from the same album, Lies.
And of course the Seven Dwarves whistle in that “Whistle While You Work” song.
Conker of Conker’s Bad Fur Day (N64) whistled to the music when you didn’t touch the controller. It was humerous and well done.