Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow

The above line was spoken by Lauren Bacall in the movie "To Have and Have Not." Of course the reference was to the ability to whistle. At the Online Guide to Whistling Records you can find a whole lot of folk that know how to whistle. Not only can you find biographies of famous whistlers but also dozens of MP3 files of those whistlers.

Fred Lowery was one of the most famous of these and as a high school student he performed at my school. He was absolutely amazing. His grand finale was to whistle the William Tell Overture. Yes, the section they used for the Lone Ranger. Try it and see how far you get.

There's listings of recordings and in some cases where you can obtain them, although in most cases they can only be had as collector's items on old 78s. Listen to a couple of these recordings. You'll be impressed.