“Games Without Frontiers” by Peter Gabriel

Hi Johnny, You’re right on both counts. When most folks think of whistling they visualize of cheerful light-hearted environments. However, your question about envisioning the dark side of whistling is astute. Whistling has not only been the herald of care-free happy situations, in some cases whistling has been the harbinger of danger, fear, stress and worry. Think of whistles at railroad crossings and whistling buoys – they warn of imminent danger. Whistling the blues has been a hallmark of blues artists. And it’s most frightful, whistling has both foreshadowed, and been a marker of, death. In war, the whistling of arrows, bullets and bombs have all been signs of potential destruction and death. In WWII Europe whistling sounds loudly warned of imminent danger and signaled soldiers and civilians to seek shelter. Likewise, the sound of approaching whistling often immediately preceded the landing of bombs nearby. In fact, one of WW II’s notorious bombers, the Corsair, was commonly called “the whistling death”. In the movies, and in real life, whistling has been identified with crimes and even murder. Drug dealers and violent gangs have used whistling to signal the approach of law enforcement. In the movie “M”, the protagonist whistled before he murdered children. And, over the radio-waves, eerie human whistling became the hallmark theme of “The Shadow”. There are some other ghostly and ghastly stories involving whistling – but thankfully – they are few in number and for the most part they do not enter our consciousness, for the real message of whistling is universal and universally appealing. Now I’ll go back to whistling while I work. – Jim Voltz, Whistling Historian.

check out:

I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman
by Whistling Jack Smith

http://www.guitarsolos.com/videos-tremeloes-here-comes-my-baby-%5BbswxaeyQDFI%5D.cfm

whistle along with these

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jfiles/whistling.htm

they felt ALL tunes should have whistling

Good to whistle While Ya work

Paul Simon
“Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

I think Bryan Ferry did the whistling in Jealous Guy justice on the Roxy Music cover. It was a hell of a risk at the time.

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