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Some of the most ominous whistling is found on soundtracks inc. Morricone’s spaghetti westerns, Bernard Hermann’s “Twisted Nerve” & Fritz Lang’s “M.” My anthropo excursion inc. The Whistling Gypsy, Blind Whistler, a whistling evangelical, a whistling kept woman, Finnish & Swedish whistlers, a tragic story of a guy driven crazy by his girlfriend’s whistling, Otis Redding whistling outtakes, Tom Waits, Jacques Tati, Aphex Twin, Carla Bley, Toots Thielemans, Roger Miller, Elvis, Whistling Jack Smith + Pat Boone. It also inc friends like Edwin Torres, Charlie Morrow & Shelley Hirsch & Peter Stampfel. Andy Griffith’s TV theme whistle brings back kid TV & De La Soul samples it fantastically. There’s whistling electronica, rap, hiphop, techno, jazz, ambient, Latin, rockabilly, dub, soul, country, cowboy, steamboats, locomotives, soundscape, Turkish bird language, Canary Islands whistling language, Aztec death whistle, jazz, blues – pretty much anywhere people pucker their mouth muscles.
