I never hear anyone whistle a tune any more. Do you? I used to whistle a lot. Now, something has happened to my whistler and I have a pretty limited range. Dad didn’t whistle as much as Mom did. Dad sang a lot, but when I could hear my mother whistling an old song, all was right with my world.
My grandpa used to whistle as he went to the barn to milk his cows each morning. It would still be dark, he’d have a hard day’s work ahead of him, but he was happy and he whistled. It was usually a Stephen Foster song, The Glendy Burk.
Do you remember the film, The Man Who Knew Too Much? Whistling was quite important in that movie. Seems to me there was once an old radio show called The Whistler.
There could be lots of reasons why people don’t whistle any more. I sincerely hope we haven’t forgotten how.
Remember the Disney film, The Seven Dwarfs and Whistle While You Work? There’s an old song, I Love to Whistle that pretty much sums up a good reason for whistling.
I advocate getting back to whistling. It’s great for thinking, for cheering up a mood, for just brightening the day.
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