Whistle while you work...
What happens when we blow out some air, create turbulence with our lips, tongue and teeth and get our mouth to act as a resonant chamber? Clue: you'll hear it in everything from 'Dock of the Bay' to 'Jealous Guy'.
Whistling is our theme tonight and as always loads of good tunes to choose from already. The most intriguing is Whistling Jack Smith with 'Kaiser's Bill's Batman'. There's a hilarious clip of 'Jack' performing it on TV in 1967. I notice that people have been commenting that the chap in the clip looks like the actor Patrick Stewart. I reckon he looks more like Rikki Fulton in his Francie and Josie wig. It's a terrible lip sync, but there is a good reason for this as the part of 'Jack' was always played by an actor. The actual whistling was done by a producer in the studio and they hired in some other guy for whistling duties on TV.
Incidentally the song was originally called 'Too Much Birdseed' and was written by Greenaway and Cook who also wrote 'You've Got Your Troubles' and 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart'.
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Is the photo of bob harris your way of getting us prepared for next weeks whispering theme?
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Cool cravat Bob.... GIO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp3neI8rRgY
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Bob has played Jethro Tull 34 times and Family 24 times.
http://www.bobharris.org/pages/searchpl.asp
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Bob is 94
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#3
YES 35 times.... I blame my brother!
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Yours is no disgrace
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I've said it before and I'll say it again; when Bryan goes on holiday Uncle Bob would make the perfect stand-in.
Okay, I'll settle for Lynn Ferguson. Alison Craig? Whit aboot Karen Dunbar? We could hae a Carrie Oakey nicht!
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I vote for Roxyjohn. You know where you stand with him.
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Will he give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty?
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We could do the show from the renfrew Ferry.
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Does he have any photies of Amanda Sheppard?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1199060/KATIE-NICHOLL-Bryan-Ferry-rock-solid-toy-girl.html
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#12
Good to see BF's made it to Madame Tussaud's.
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Partly, I'm sure.
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Hi Bryan,
Enjoying the show & finally managed to join your blog. For tonight's theme how about "Walk Tall" by Val Doonigan - my old man loved this one along with "Paddy McGinty's Goat". Drove the rest of us daft!
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Welcome DPD,
#15 Drive, daft...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovk67yMiFI
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