Whistling Dave; Scooter

“Scooter is a German hard dance band founded in Hamburg, who have sold over 25 million records and earned 80 gold and platinum awards. Scooter are considered the most successful single-record German act with 23 top ten hits. The band is currently composed of members H.P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan and Michael Simon. Although most of the band’s early recordings are in the styles of happy hardcore or hard trance, Scooter have experimented with other dance genres such as hardstyle and jumpstyle, and occasionally hip hop, hard rock and house.”¹



“‘Whistling Dave’ [is an instrumental song that] samples the Russian folk song ‘Korobeiniki’, known as the theme music from the video game Tetris, specifically the Nintendo Game Boy version.”²

 

do you remember this?

“Music A in the Game Boy edition of Tetris has become very widely known, to the point that Level 20 in Tetris DS is based on the Game Boy version of Tetris and uses that theme. It is an instrumental arrangement of a Russian folk tune called ‘Korobeiniki’ (with various Latin spellings), which has been covered by UK dance band Doctor Spin, US alternative rock band Ozma, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Basshunter the Swedish Eurodance DJ, and also the German techno group Scooter on their 2007 album Jumping All Over the World. It was also sampled in ‘21 Concepts’ by MC Lars. Music A and B are also remixed and arranged for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and can be selected for the stage ‘Luigi's Mansion’, as well as being used in custom stages. The song has also been remixed for two dance games, under the name ‘Pumptris Quattro’ in Pump It Up NX2 and ‘Happy-hopper’ in Dance Maniax 2nd Mix.”³



“The song ‘Korobeiniki’ is based on a poem with the same name by Nikolay Nekrasov, written and printed in the Sovremennik magazine in 1861. Due to its increasing tempo and the dance style associated with it, it quickly became a popular Russian folk song.

“Korobeiniki were peddlers with trays, selling fabric, haberdashery, books and other small things in pre-revolutionary Russia. The song tells the story of a young Korobeinik trying to sell his goods to a dark-eyed girl named Katya, eventually kissing her which leads them to disappear into a rye field, and she mysteriously ends up taking a turquoise ring from him. The events that lead to her getting this ring are expressed through metaphor. ⁴

Dry Freezing Tongue; Mallu Magalhães

Mallu Magalhães became famous by MySpace. When she did 15, she asked to her parents money instead gifts to record some of her own songs. MTV Brasil paid attention on Mallu music style (her influences are bands like The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash) and invited her to participate in a global project called “Sessões MTV”. Thenceforward, she is “taking over the world”!

Becoming famous, Mallu met Marcelo Camelo. She and him played and sung together in some concerts, spent time touring around the country, released one song together... Sure enough, sooner or later, they felt in love and started to date. =)

This song tells about her tactless with boys*. She is also unskilful with the English language. Despite she can write songs in English good enough, her accent is awkward and funny. Don’t you think so?


I wanna call you and suddenly hang up the phone
Just to feel those brave winds inside me going on
And that’s all I need and you’re just calling back
My rusty fingers scratch my weak falling neck

Look how easy I am, am I just a cheap one?
That you can have your secret song just whispering on the phone

And that’s all I need, that’s my floor and stairs
That’s my blood in tracks, that’s my water and air

So, pass the time we are waiting
Here goes the life I am playing

Here goes another secret song,
That’s me playing my dry freezing tongue,
Here goes another boy I keep
And here goes another job I quit.

Doce Solidão; Marcelo Camelo

After the members of Los Hermanos decided to take a break and confirmed the hiatus, the singer Marcelo Camelo started his solo carreer and released his first solo album in 2008, naming it “Sou”. The cover of the album has a play with the words “sou” and “nós” — one meaning the other if read upside down — which means, respectively, “[I] am” and “we”.

“Sou” was attended by artists like the singers Dominguinhos and Mallu Magalhães. The whistled track is sung only by Camelo, it’s so soothing and sticky that I can hear it for hours...


Posso estar só
Mas, sou de todo mundo
Por eu ser só um
Ah, nem! Ah, não! Ah, nem dá!
Solidão, foge que eu te encontro
Que eu já tenho asa
Isso lá é bom, doce solidão?

Deixa o Verão; Los Hermanos

Still in Valentine's Day aura, the next three posts will be a trilogy: Los Hermanos was the former band by the singer Marcelo Camelo; Marcelo Camelo is the guy who dates the sixteen multi-instrumentalist Mallu Magalhães.

The band Los Hermanos was born 1997 in Rio de Janeiro. Under the Ska Punk genre mixed with Hardcore and MPB they made a lot of success with their eponymous first album. The time passed and the band matured to an indie rock style, then (the 2 last albums) to a lo-fi sound, charged with an old samba characteristic.

"Deixa o Verão" was recorded on the penult album, the 2003 "Ventura". It was written by Rodrigo Amarante, the guitarist-bassist-pianist-flautist of "Los Hermanos". This song tells about lazyness: the refrain means "let the Summer for later...", it sounds like The Smiths, one of the influences of Amarante.

Today, Amarante is playing in the band Little Joy.


Deixa eu decidir se é cedo ou tarde
espere eu considerar
ver se eu vou assim chique-à-vontade
qual o tom do lugar.

Enquanto eu penso você sugeriu
um bom motivo pra tudo atrasar.
E ainda é cedo pra lá
chegando às seis tá bom demais
Deixa o verão pra mais tarde

Uh ah ãã aeãeã

Não tô muito afim de novidade
Fila em banco de bar
Considere toda hostilidade
que há da porta pra lá

Enquanto eu fujo você inventou
qualquer desculpa pra gente ficar
E assim a gente não sai
que esse sofá tá bom demais
Deixa o verão pra mais tarde

Uh ah ãã aeãeã

E eu digo,cá entre nós
deixa o verão pra mais tarde

Uh ah ãã aeãeã

Welcome to the Jungle; Richard Cheese

As I promissed, here it is: Welcome to the Jungle, the Guns n' Roses song whistled and “lounged” by Richard Cheese!

This cover is a piece of gold! It has all a big band atmosphere, doesn't look like a hard rock song at all... Cheese shouts like Plant in "Dazed and Confuzed"! He whistles the melody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" referring to the jungle. Screams like Tarzan in the beginning also.

I couldn't find a music video...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH OH OH OH!

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want, Honey
We know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your na-na-na-na-knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your na-na-na-na-knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed

And when you're high you never
Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down!
YEAH!
OH OH OH OH YO!

You know where you are?
You're in the jungle baby
You're gonna die!

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your na-na-na-na-knees
Watch it bring you down!
I couldn't put the song playing entirely, so you can listen it clicking here!

Creep; Richard Cheese

While Thom Yorke and his band don't feature a whistling song — to my delight —, I give to you a cover version of the song “Creep”, by the band Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine.

This band is a musical ensemble that performs covers as numbers comedy with sucessful songs. They describe theirselves like “Sinatra singing Radiohead”, imagine that and “and you've got Dick”. They also covered The White Stripes, Michael Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park... It's very funny, you have to listen others Richard Cheese covers.

The band's current members are Mark Jonathan Davis (as the leader-singer Richard Cheese), the pianist and keyboarder Noel Melanio (as Bobby Ricotta), Brian Fishler (Frank Feta) playing drums and percussion and Billy Bleau on the bass.

Tomorrow I'll post another cover song made and whistled by Rick Cheese and his guys. See you there!

Spoken:
You know folks, I was talking with my honey the other day, my Pablo Honey, I said to her, I said, "Pablo Honey", I said, I said, "You go to my head...my Radiohead."
OK Computer!

Sung:
When you were here before
I couldn't look you in the eye.
You're just like an angel.
Your skin makes me cry.

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world.
I wish I was special.
You're so frickin' special.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the heck am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
No, no, no, no!

I don't care if it hurts
I just want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a matching soul

I want you to notice
When I'm not here
You're so frickin' special.
I wish I was special.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the heck am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
No, no, no, no!

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so very special
I'll have that special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the heck am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

I'm a creep, I'm a nutjob
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here...
I don't belong here.

Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much, a pig in a cage on antibiotics!

Thank you!

Can’t Smile Without You; Barry Manilow

I am not saying that one story excludes the veracity of the other, but I think they shuffled the born of the song with the releasing idea of Manilow, both found in SongFacts.com:

“On Manilow’s box set, David Martin, one of the composers of the song, says: ‘In 1975, my wife Debbie was working at a greeting card store. One evening, she gave me a card... Across the top of the card were simply the word ‘Can’t Smile Without You’. I was immediately drawn to the slogan and during the drive home from Hampstead to Harrow, a journey of about 30 minutes, the song was written.”

“One of Barry Manilow's friends was inside of a gift and card shop one evening shopping for a ‘I miss you’ card for Barry, as they were now far away from each other. He purchased a card that read ‘I can't smile without you’ and sent it to Manilow. Barry read the card, got an idea, and showed it to record executive Clive Davis who thought it was a wonderful song. It proved to be a worldwide hit.”

Who wrote this song was the aforementioned David Martin in partnership with Geoff Morrow and Christian Arnold back in year 1975. It really became known in the voice of Barry Manilow, but The Carpenters had already recorded it for the album “A Kind of Hush” in 1977, and Engelbert Humperdinck in 1976 for the album “After the Lovin’”. Here. Of all the recordings, only the version of Manilow has whistles. It is also the most delicious to hear, in my opinion.

Great for dancing today with the person you love! Have a happy Valentine’s Day!

You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything

You see I feel sad when you're sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you

You came along just like a song
And brighten my day
Who would of believed that
You where part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away

And now you know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything

You see I feel sad when your sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile

Now some people say happiness takes
So very long to find
Well, I'm finding it hard
Leaving your love behind me

And you see I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything

You see I feel glad when you're glad
I feel sad when you're sad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you

Coke Hard Times; The Simpsons

Last Sunday was the Super Bowl. New Orleans Saints versus Indianapolis Colts. Saints won. For those who don't know, Super Bowl is the National Football League final game. It is the most important sporting event in North America at all. It is like the Brazilian Championship Soccer final match, if there was one...

Well, 'cause the Super Bowl is the most watched TV program in US, the ads on its commercial breaks are the most expensive of all, where one minute can cost 3 million dollars! What makes the commercial breaks an apart spectacle, in which the best, the richest, the most famous trademarks in the world introduce their products to the average consumer.

One of them, of course, is the Coca-Cola Company. This year, Coca-Cola hired the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy to make two ads especially for the Super Bowl's breaks. One of them is here, of course, because there are whistlings on it. It's a Simpsons animation called "Hard Times".

According Coca-Cola website: "'Hard Times' features a variety of characters from the FOX television show THE SIMPSONS, most notably greedy billionaire C. Montgomery Burns, who has fallen on difficult times. Just when all hope seems to be lost, Mr. Burns learns to appreciate life's simple pleasures as he joins other characters enjoying Coca-Cola and Opening Happiness in a neighborhood park."

I searched on the ad if there was one Simpsons' character whistling along the scene, but I didn't find. So, I can only figure out who is the whistler... I bet on Homer! What do you think?!

Jigsaw; Chris Madin

With you, Chris Madin by himself:

I’m Chris Madin a singer/songwriter originally from Doncaster, South Yorkshire (England) who made the move to London when I was 18 to pursue my dream of writing and recording my own album… and here it is “Jigsaw”.

I wrote most of my album “Jigsaw” with Pete Woodroffe and Charlie Grant and two of the songs with Mr Jem Godfrey all three of whom have been a huge inspiration.

I love to write songs that have a concept behind them, something that people can relate to without singing about the obvious and put as much personality into my songs as possible! I spend most of my time writing, singing, playing, performing or listening to my music but I do love football too.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the complete song anywhere. If you have it, please send it to me in my email adress: assobie@gmail.com. Thanks a lot!

EDIT (10/4): Found it!

PS: If you want to listen to Madin's others songs, visit him on MySpace.

Your face, your style, your kiss, your smile
All the puzzle pieces I've been missing
No man alive could walk on by
Won't even try it 'cause there's no resisting you

You've been a long time coming around
Thought I was lost but now I'm found

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

To think that I could ever find
Anyone better baby who am I fooling

I missed all the signs blew so much time
I only found you when I stopped looking ooo

You've been a long time coming around
Thought I was lost but now I'm found

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

And even though sunshine fades
There's nobody could ever take your place

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

The Real Slim Shady; Eminem

Awn... I'm tired these days.

There is a "phew, pheeew" whistling right on 3:08. See ya!



(Talking)
May I have your attention please,
may I have your attention please,
will the real slim shady please stand up,
I repeat will the real slim shady please stand up
we're gonna have a problem here

Ya'll act like you never seen a white person before
jaws all on the floor
like Pam and Tommy just burst in the door
and started whoopin her ass worse than before
they first were divorced
throwing her over furniture (aaaaaah)
It's the return of the...
"ano wait, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did,
did he?"
and Dr. Dre said...
nothing you idiots, Dr Dre's dead
he's locked in my bassment
feminist women love Eminem
chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady,
"I'm sick of him, look it him
walkin around, grabbin his you know what
flippin' to you know who"
"yeah, but he's so cute though"
yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
but no worse than what's goin on in your parents bedroom(eheheheh)
sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose
but can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
My bum is on your lips, My bum is on your lips
and if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
and that's the message that we deliver to little kids
and expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
of course they're gonna know what intercourse is
by the time they hit 4th grade
they got the discovery channel, dont they?
we ain't nothing but mammals
well, some of us cannibals
who cut other people open like cantelopes
but if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
but if you feel like I feel, I got the antedote
women wave your pantehose, sing the chorus and it goes

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
you think I give a damn about a grammy
half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"but slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird"
why? so you guys can just lie to get me here
so you can sit me here next to Britney Spears
bullshit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs,
so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
and hear em argue over who she gave head to first
little bitch, put me on blast on MTV
"yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee hee"
I should download her audio on MP3
and show the world how you gave eminem VD (aaaaaah)
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups
all you do is annoy me
so I have N'SYNC here to destroy you
and there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me, walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing, but not like me

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so won't the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm like a head trip to listen to
cause I'm only giving you things
you joke about with your friends inside you livin' room
the only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of ya'll and I aint gotta be false or sugar coated atall
I just get on the mic and spit it
and whether you like to admit it (riiip)
I just shitted it better than 90% you rappers out can
then you wonder how can
kids eat up these albums like valiums
it's funny,cause at the rate I'm going when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursing home flirting
pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with jergen's
and I'm jerkin' but this whole bag of viagra isn't working
in every single person there's a slim shady lurkin
he could be workin at burger king, spittin on your onion rings
or in the parking lot, circling, screamin I dont give a fuck
with his windows down and his system up
so will the real shady please stand up
and put 1 of those fingers on each hand up
and be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and 1 more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

(Talking)
haha guess it's a slim shady in all of us
fuck it let's all stand up

Ue o Muite Arukō (Sukiyaki); Kyu Sakamoto

Ohayo!!! I'm happy! I found a Japanese song with whistlings! It's our first song from a Japanese singer in Japanese language! And I can't understand anything! LOL

First of All, "Ue i Muite Arukō" means "I shall walk looking up", and people use to call it "Sukiyaki" because in Occident it is so much easier to speak than the original name, so the Pye Records gave it the new title when Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen covered the song. Still citing Wikipedia: "The title, sukiyaki (which is a Japanese steamboat dish), has nothing to do with the lyrics or the meaning of the song; the word served the purpose only because it was short, catchy, recognizably Japanese, and more familiar to most English speakers (very few of whom could understand the Japanese lyrics anyway). A Newsweek columnist noted that the re-titling was like issuing 'Moon River' in Japan under the title 'Beef Stew'.

"The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears won't fall. The verses of the song describe him doing this through each season of the year. The English lyrics of the version recorded by A Taste of Honey are not a translation of the original Japanese lyrics but a completely different set of lyrics set to the same basic melody. Probably the nearest translation, at least in feel, was recorded by US soul singer Jewel Akens, on ERA records, as "My First Lonely Night" which, although not a literal translation, tells a similar story. A lonely man walks through the night, after losing his love."

Now, a little of SongFacts.com: "This became a hit in the US when a disk jockey in Washington state heard the British version, and started playing the original by Sakamoto. The title remained "Sukiyaki," even though it had nothing to do with the song. Marsha Cunningham explains:
"In 1961-2 I was a high school student at The American School In Japan, living in Zushi, Japan. My dad was a pilot for Japan Airlines. While enjoying a Japanese movie staring Kyu Sakamoto, I heard the most unbelievably beautiful song. I purchased the record at a local shop and brought it back to the states the next year when I attended a girl's boarding school in Sierra Madre, CA. I played it in the dormitory frequently; everyone liked it. One girl took my record home with her on the weekend so her dad could play it on his radio station, and the rest is history!"

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Omoidasu harunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Ue o muite arukou
Nijinda hosi o kazoete
Omoidasu natsunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Shiawase wa kumo no ueni
Shiawase wa sora no ueni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Whistling

Omoidasu akinohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Kanashimi wa hosino kageni
Kanashimi wa tsukino kageni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Despre Tine; O-Zone

I've heard this song a lot when I go clubbing. I asked people its name, but nobody knew it. So I went ask to the right person. And he knew it. One friend of mine is a DJ and it was on the tip of his tongue: Despre Tine by O-Zone.

O-Zone was that Moldovan band that made a lot of success with the hit "Dragostea Din Tei" in the faraway summer of 2003, reaching #1 in several hit parades around the world. Do you remember this viral video?

"Despre Tine" is a song from the same album of "Dragostea Din Tei", the 2004 "DiscO-Zone". It is the last album by the band, which broke up in 2005. "Despre Tine" is the O-Zone second hit and was re-released in 2004. Below I put these two versions.

To finish the topic, the usual picture by the group (formed by Arsenie Todiraş, Dan Bălan and Radu Sîrbu):

Ma trezesc cu tine în gînd
Despre tine vreau sa cînt
Melodia mea de dor
Care place tuturor

Nu respunsi la SMS
Eu iti scriu atat de des
Poate m-am purtat urat
Dar sa stii ca te-am iubit

Ma inec in ochii tai,lal-la-lei
Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei
Esti un inger pe Pamint
Despre tine cînt si zi zi noapte,lal-la-lei (2x)

Daca mergi cu mine-n vis
Am sa te invat sa riz
Si-am sa-ti cant pana in zori
Cantecelul meu de dor

Nu respunsi la SMS
Eu iti scriu atat de des
Poate m-am purtat urat
Dar sa stii ca te-am iubit

Ma inec in ochii tai,lal-la-lei
Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei
Esti un inger pe Pamint
Despre tine cînt si zi zi noapte,lal-lei (2x)