Trois c’est trop?

Of course not! Bien sûr que non! I’ve found other songs (few of them, in fact) but have been hard to find their videoclip or their download links to post here, then I decided keep searching and update them later.

Between them there are: Henri Salvador, who made a song in which there are people whistling the River Kwai March called “Colonel Bogey” but there’s nothing on internet about it for download. And there is a good song by a rap group but in its live show the rappers don’t whistle, they mumble; I'm not sure about post now this kind of “half-whistled” songs in which the whistling isn’t a primacy.

Well, if you don’t mind, into tomorrow update there is a phrase sung in french. Ok?

À bientôt! Et vive la France!

“Whistle”; Sporto Kantès

I’d like to post this song tomorrow, because it’s friday and friday is the right day to relax and see cool videos before we’re out. But tomorrow isn’t another friday and I believe I have a better one to put here.

Anyway, any day and any hour is time to relax, to listen cool whistling songs and go to sleep with it on our mind! And if you caught the spirit, I give to you... Sporto Kantès!

What a weeeeeird name for a band, huh? Not a band, a duo. This Drum & Bass french duo formed by Benjamin Sportes and Nicolas Kantorovwicz took each one his surnames and exchanged their last parts.

They have been together since 90’s when the Europe was invaded by a eletronic wave. His biggest hit is this which they whistle, which had already been used in a Renault Twingo commercial.

I think the song was composed all around the whistle, just see its name. But as what I think shouldn’t worth too much (or anything) I’m still looking for infos.

Just an advice: I couldn’t upload the entire song, I don’t know what is happening, I just can’t. If anyone can upload it in 4Shared.com I’d appreciate it too much! See ya!

When I got whistle
When I got whistle
When the weather colored bee

You can't describe
What's in your mind
Your love is sweet
But you'r not mine
I can't denied what I can't see
You'r just the one
Who cares for me
But I wanna be... free

When I got whistle
When I got whistle
When the weather colored bee

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Ulysse; Ridan

WoW! Found another one! And listen it! “Ulysse” is the most gracious song I ever post! La plus jolie! And was composed and sung by a rapper. What a crazy country! Where even the rappers are sensitive! J'aime la France!

Ridan, whose real name is Nadir Kouidri (read Ridan backwards), mixes his influence of rap with what the french people call varieté, a kind of light pop. So the result is a calm and relaxing melody with politicized and “rough” lyrics.

To write “Ulysse” Ridan was inspired by a famous poem by Joachim du Bellay. The poem is here for those who have patience. ^^

Does the whistle was also inspired by the poem? If someone will read it or have already read it and could tell me, please, don't be shy!

The music video is so dreamlike and beautiful than the song. The only thing I can say is... Enjoy it! Appréciez!

Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,
Ou comme ces sui-la qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retourné, plein d'usage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son âge !

Quand reverrai-je, hélas, de mon petit village,
Fumer la cheminée et en quelle saison?
De nous méfier de nos pas, et de toute cette eau qui dort,
Qui pollue nos chemins, soi-disant pavés d'or.

Mais quand reverrai-je, de mon petit village,fumer la cheminée et en quelle saison,mais quand reverrai-je (x2)

Mais quand reverrai-je ?Mais quand reverrai-je ?
Mais quand reverrai-je ?

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Mais quand reverrai-je, de mon petit village,fumer la cheminée et en quelle saison,mais quand reverrai-je (2x)

Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison
Qui m'est une province, et beaucoup davantage ?

Plus me plaît le séjour qu'ont bâti mes aïeux,
Que des palais Romains le front audacieux,
Plus que le marbre dur me plaît l'ardoise fine,

Plus mon Loire Gaulois, que le Tibre latin,
Plus mon petit Liré, que le mont Palatin,
Et plus que l'air marin la douceur angevine.

Mais quand reverrai-je, de mon petit village,fumer la cheminée et en quelle saison,mais quand reverrai-je (x2)

J'ai traversé les mers à la force de mes bras,
Seul contre les Dieux, perdu dans les marées
Retranché dans une cale, et mes vieux tympans percés,
Pour ne plus jamais entendre les sirènes et leurs voix.

Nos vies sont une guerre où il ne tient qu'à nous
De nous soucier de nos sorts, de trouver le bon choix,

Chanson pour Patrick Dewaere; Raphaël Haroche

Salut, mes amis de la France! This week I will try to post only french songs! Seulement les chansons françaises! It's a very difficult challenge, but at least I have one whistling tune and it's a beginning. However, it's monday and I'll have the rest of the week to find another ones.

Our singer of the day born in Boulogne-Billancourt in November 1975, performs only under his first name, writes his own songs and in 2005 released his third album “Caravane”, which led him to the mainstream, and in this album there is our song.

“Chanson pour Patrick Dewaere” is about a relationship that ends and he finds himself between thoughs of the ruthless life that passes by and the memories of his lost love. Raphaël sings with deep sensitivity and when he whistles it seemed to me our resignation that doesn't dare to face the death.

In a website dedicated to him there is a compilation of many interviews he did, and about this song he said:

“Ai-je tort de dire que la 'Chanson pour Patrick Dewaere' tient beaucoup à 'Coup de Tête', le film de Jean Jacques Annaud?

“Raphaël: La chanson est sortie très instinctivement. Je ne sais jamais vraiment pourquoi je fait les choses jusqu'au moment où je ne me pose plus de questions et que je sais qu'elles sont faites. Le titre est venu presque comme de l'écriture automatique. C'est un peu ce que moi je traversais: j'avais arrêté la clope, l'alcool et pleins d'autres trucs qui m'arrivaient. C'est le sentiment d'un mec qui vivrait à la minute même qui n'est même pas au jour le jour mais dans l'instant. Un gars qui prend ce qui arrive et j'avais l'image de ce type en tête, toute l'émotion qu'il dégage de très fort et sincère, comme Léotard ou Bohringer. Il y a tout ce côté un peu brûlé, écorché vif qui me plait bien en eux."

(...)
“Une des chansons de l’album évoque Patrick Dewaere. C’est quelqu’un que vous admirez?

“Raphaël: C’est un hommage. Pour moi, c’est le type qui incarne ce romantisme, ce côté écorché, cette fragilité et, en même temps, cette liberté qu’ont les artistes. Dewaere était quelqu’un de talentueux, doué. On ne sait pas pourquoi, il suffit de le voir, il bouleverse. Un peu comme Philippe Léotard. Ce sont des mecs très différents de moi auxquels je ne m’identifie pas forcément, pour qui j’ai beaucoup de tendresse. J’ai le sentiment que ce sont des êtres qui se détruisaient. Ils brûlaient leur vie. Ce sont des destins émouvants.

(...)
“Pourquoi une chanson sur Patrick Dewaere? Que veut-elle dire?

“Raphaël: C'est une chanson plus sur un personnage qui me fait penser à ce comédien , l'idée c'est un type qui n'a ni passé ni avenir, un type dont on ne sait pas s'il va vous embrasser ou se jeter dans la Seine.

(...)
“Tout le monde me conseillait d'enlever cette chanson de l'album, pour moi c'était inconcevable. C'est l'histoire d'un type qui ne vit pas au jour le jour, mais minute par minute, comme un oiseau sur la branche, l'histoire d'un type perdu, très énergique et desespéré en même temps. J'étais un peu dans cet état lorsque j'ai composé cette chanson.”There's not a videoclip. Mais sifflez! Sifflez!

Et toi j' te connais pas mais t'es plus ma copine
et tous les jours et les semaines
et tu me fais vraiment de la peine non
regarde les autres comme ils s'aiment
et moi je connais un bon coin
où on pourrait s'embrasser
et je te veux rien, allez viens

Et la vie va grand train de l'autre côté
c'est pas ma faute à moi si je sais pas gagner
regarde comment j' dors plus la nuit
je sais même plus mon nom
et c'est quoi cette petite vie
et c'est quoi toutes ces maisons
où ils s'en vont
où ils s'en vont

Et l'autre fois je te croise dans la rue
et tu me dis même pas bonjour
et je sais je fume trop au café je meurs tous les jours
et tous les jours de l'année
c'est la nuit qui vous prend
est-ce que tu sens le vide sous nos pieds
est-ce que ce vide là tu le sens
quand je t'embrasse
quand je t'embrasse

Alors saute-moi au cou
allez dis-moi que la vie est belle
allez saute moi au cou
que c'est pas dans cette vie que l'on paye
et cette musique je l'aime beaucoup
on n'a pas l' même âge mais c'est pareil
on ira tous les deux jusqu'au bout
on ira tous les deux jusqu'au bout
je sais qu' tu m'aimes
ça je l' sais que tu m'aimes

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Centerfold; J. Geils Band

The last but not the least, J. Geils Band with Centerfold. I think that Rolling Stone magazine put in its list only songs that were worldwide hits in their respective times and it chose to mix up the stiles of the songs witch appear in it (power ballad, indie rock, soul, etc.). Its staff made a complete and consistent playlist with so many good choices and only 6 places. Good work!

"Centerfold" is the bigger success of J. Geils Band. It reached #1 on US Bilboard Hot 100 and stayed there for six weeks and reached #4 on UK Single Charts. The song lists at #52 on Billboard's All Time Top Songs.

Peter Wolf, the vocalist, wrote "Centerfold" and some guess he wanted to mean his relationship with Angel Tompkins, even because the chorus says "my angel is the centerfold". The whistling in this song is right in the end, in the fade out part. Which means that if you wanna listen it you will have to listen the entire song. But it's not a problem — it's a amazing song.

The videoclip is very cool. I found in Wikipedia: "The music video starts out with Peter Wolf going to the classroom and looking through a magazine which he mentions his girlfriend is in. Some girls then start dancing in a line wearing slips. Afterwards, more girls appear in the whole classroom in negligees dancing, smiling, and playing patty cake. Wolf then hands a couple of uniforms to two of the girls. Later on, the girls appear in cheerleading sweatshirts resembling a 1980s style dress. After Wolf is knocked out by the girls with books, a party begins with the cheerleaders. The video ends with Wolf running out of the school in the company of four girls doing cartwheels."

For a digital remastered version of the videoclip click here to watch in YouTube. Below the video there is a picture of his Angel...

Come on!

Does she walk?
Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel always pulled me from my seat
She was pure like snowflakes, no one could ever stain
The memory of my angel could never cause me pain
Years go by, I'm looking through a girlie magazine
And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in between

My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold
Angel is the centerfold
(2x)

Slipped me notes, under the desk
While I was thinking about her dress
I was shy, I turned away, before she caught my eye
I was shakin' in my shoes whenever she flashed those baby blues
Something had a hold on me when Angel passed close by
Those soft fuzzy sweaters, too magical to touch
To see her in that negligee is really just too much

My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold
Angel is the centerfold
(2x)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah (3x)

Now listen:
It's okay, I understand
This ain't no never-never land
I hope that when this issues gone
I'll see you when your clothes are on
Take your car, yes we will,
We'll take your car and drive it
Take it to a motel room and take 'em off in private
A part of me has just been ripped
The pages from my mind are stripped
Oh no I can't deny it
Oh yeah, I guess I got to buy it

My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold
Angel is the centerfold
(2x)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

Alright!
Alright!
1,2,3,4

Nah nah...

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