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"Whistle" is a song by American rapper Flo Rida from his fourth album Wild Ones (2012). It was released on April 24, 2012, as the third single from the album. "Whistle" was written by Flo Rida, David Glass, Marcus Killian, Justin Franks, Breyan Isaac and Antonio Mobley while production was handled by DJ Frank E and Glass.
Follow That Dream is an EP by American singer Elvis Presley, containing four songs from the motion picture of the same name. The EP was released by RCA Victor in May 1962. It was simultaneously certified Gold and Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 27, 1992.
Whistling For You – Columbia C-148 10" 78 (1947) Whistling For You – Columbia CL 6091 10" LP (1950) Walking Along Kicking the Leaves, Fred Lowery whistling with orchestra directed by Own Bradley – Decca DL 8476 LP Mono (1957) Whistle a Happy Tune – Decca DL 8995 LP Mono (1960) Fred Lowery Sings for the Birds – Lowery ED1001 LP Mono
"I Whistle a Happy Tune" is a show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I. It is sung by the Governess Anna Leonowens (originally played on Broadway by Gertrude Lawrence) to her son Louis after the curtain rises on Act One of the musical, to persuade him not to be afraid as they arrive in Siam to serve the King.
One day I got up and I just thought, here's a guy who's a simple character. And I started whistling a theme. I called a bass guitar-and-drum session at a little studio on Fairfax Avenue, and I whistled the theme. My son, who was eleven years old at the time, did all the finger snapping. I played the demo for [Leonard] and he said, "That's perfect.
"The Whistling Coon" was characterized by a light-hearted tune and lyrics which would be unacceptable today, in which a black man is compared to a baboon. [ 9 ] Johnson continued recording for the New York and New Jersey companies, and in 1891 also started recording for their parent company, the North American Phonograph Company.
The tune is whistled in the fadeout of the Simon & Garfunkel song "Punky's Dilemma", from their 1968 album Bookends. Toward the end of the 1980 film Seems Like Old Times, Chevy Chase's character can be heard whistling the tune as he walks away from the camera.
The song added a new term to the American lexicon: "Whistling 'Dixie'" is a slang expression meaning "[engaging] in unrealistically rosy fantasizing." [98] For example, "Don't just sit there whistling 'Dixie'!" is a reprimand against inaction, and "You ain't just whistling 'Dixie'!" indicates that the addressee is serious about the matter at hand.