Just noticed the Want by Mike "Ollie Jackson" Got to wipe away the teardrops with IMO a brilliant bit of whistling in it.Was he the "whistler" ??Other than Otis Reddings classic tune what other soulful tunes have whistling in them?ATB Steve

  steve z said:

Just noticed the Want by Mike "Ollie Jackson" Got to wipe away the teardrops with IMO a brilliant bit of whistling in it.Was he the "whistler" ??Other than Otis Reddings classic tune what other soulful tunes have whistling in them?ATB Steve

Funky Sisters "Do It To It" has some pretty insane whistling all the way through...

Godz

Ronnie Jones 'Put your head on my shoulder' has a good bit of whistling

  Godzilla said:

Funky Sisters "Do It To It" has some pretty insane whistling all the way through...

Godz

I wonder if it was recorded in one go like a lot were in those days, or edited/mixed in the studio from various takes.

Fine bit of whistling, anyone know anything about The Funky Sisters. How many people etc

Do you still care for me by Richard Popcorn Wylie has a bit of world class whistling in it.Great record though

  CRAIG W said:

Do you still care for me by Richard Popcorn Wylie has a bit of world class whistling in it.Great record though

Hi Craig thanks for your response I still do not know if any of the singers mentioned actually "whistled" Gonna be one for those that know!Thanks Stevie

Just Ask Me - Lenis Guess

  steve z said:

Hi Craig thanks for your response I still do not know if any of the singers mentioned actually "whistled" Gonna be one for those that know!Thanks Stevie

On a past Otis Redding boxset there were ( I think ) several out takes of Otis singing DOTB - With a few cuts showing his whistling prowess failing him and both him and the other session guys falling about laughing . . Quite poignant / sad / funny considering it was his last hit .

ATB

Rich

  harrogatesoul said:

On a past Otis Redding boxset there were ( I think ) several out takes of Otis singing DOTB - With a few cuts showing his whistling prowess failing him and both him and the other session guys falling about laughing . . Quite poignant / sad / funny considering it was his last hit .

ATB

Rich

Hi Rich,didn't know that .Thanks ATb Steve

  steve z said:

Just noticed the Want by Mike "Ollie Jackson" Got to wipe away the teardrops with IMO a brilliant bit of whistling in it.Was he the "whistler" ??Other than Otis Reddings classic tune what other soulful tunes have whistling in them?ATB Steve

Dont know about whistlers but what about miss heard lyrics on Northern Records ?How about this one for starters :- JACKIE WILSON I'M THE ONE TO DO ITListen to where he sings " I Know I'm Not An Einstien " Sounds Like " I Know I'm Not At ASDA " Play the disc and see what I mean

NEXT ORWELL WIGAN PIER FEB 24th 8 -30 -2-30 With SOUL SAM & GLYN THORNHILL

Think Roger Whittaker takes some beating

  Tedsoul said:

Think Roger Whittaker takes some beating

I've always been a Whistlin Jack Smith man myself even though Jack himself never existed....anyone that can produce a record entitled " I was Kaiser Bill's Batman" desrves some praise ....the original title to the record was gonna be " too much birdseed".....

Edited February 18, 200619 yr by Richard Bergman

  Tedsoul said:

Think Roger Whittaker takes some beating

Hi Ted.Which "soulful tunes" did he do

  steve z said:

Hi Ted.Which "soulful tunes" did he do

Roger Whittaker is the singer behind Butch's "foolish girl" c/u...weird eh....

  Tedsoul said:

Think Roger Whittaker takes some beating

Class Pure class

Steve

Back to soul whistling though, The Cheques "Deeper" on Heatwave has some pretty cool whistling on the intro and fade out. Nice cheapie too!

Godz

  Godzilla said:

Back to soul whistling though, The Cheques "Deeper" on Heatwave has some pretty cool whistling on the intro and fade out. Nice cheapie too!

Godz

Hi Godz....forgot about that one........great tune ......and whistling...IMO..ATb steve

DON'T FORGET 'THE WHITLING POSTMAN' MR Z

'HAVE YOU GOT A LIGHT BOY !' 'OLD MOTHER GRIMLEY SHE SMOKES LIKE A -CHIMNEY BUT SHE'S MY LITTLE NICOTINE GIRL'.......THINK IT'S TIME FOR MY MEDS

CHRIS M

  steve z said:

Just noticed the Want by Mike "Ollie Jackson" Got to wipe away the teardrops with IMO a brilliant bit of whistling in it.Was he the "whistler" ??Other than Otis Reddings classic tune what other soulful tunes have whistling in them?ATB Steve

Radiants/ Whole lot of woman ,Has a couple of Wolf whistles but i think that could be considerd sexist now and land you a fine. Government are pondering the idea as we speak?

Connie McGill & The Visions "I'm So Happy I Found You" on Camille. A wonderful cheap disc with a fantastic whistling 'solo' which is oddly moving. Haven't got a soundfile, but people who are new to this record always seem to be knocked out by it on first heairing.

Edited February 20, 200619 yr by garethx

Accents - New Girl - One Der Ful .

https://the.soulclub.org/stream/The_Accents_-_New_Girl.ram

Love the label - like the song - lots of whistling - just can't get it out of my head that the group went out on the lash one night and decided to go back to the studio and cut a disc.... Ah the romance of soul music...

ATB

Rich

  epic said:

Just Ask Me - Lenis Guess

You sure?

  harrogatesoul said:

Accents - New Girl - One Der Ful .

Good call. Was gonna say this. Think it's on M-PAC. So erm, Rufus Thomas - Walking the dog? Not really soul as such. Hell of a whistler tho!

  Simsy said:

You sure?

Good call. Was gonna say this. Think it's on M-PAC. So erm, Rufus Thomas - Walking the dog? Not really soul as such. Hell of a whistler tho!

M-PAC - yr right -

Rich

  Simsy said:

You sure?

If you listen to Lenis Guess on www.soulclub.org around about 1.48 minute mark you will hear a noise - sounds like a whistle to me.

Agreed best piece of whistling ever in a Blue Eyed styleee

I Was Kaiser Bills Batman - Whistling Jack Smith

Edited February 20, 200619 yr by richard

I can think of quite a few tunes around in the charts at the moment where I wish they whistled instead of sung