Famous whistled song

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I caught myself whistling a song today that at first I thought was the song from the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai" but it isn't "The Colonel Bogey March".

The first two notes are, I think, the same notes though.

So then I though it might be the theme to "Hogan's Heros" but that isn't whistled.

The song has a marching song/army kind of feel to it.

It is driving me crazy.

Does anyone have any idea what this tune could be?

And no, it isn't "The Andy Griffith Show" theme song.

Many thanks if you can solve this mystery!

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Robin Hood whistling?

oh...I haven't heard that one in ages - Whistling Jack Smith

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@boomerang,

Roger Whittaker of some sort?

(if that worked right <did in preview> there is a whole selection of R.W. in there - bless us all - you have to click on one of the little ones under the main disabled note )

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Now those people can whistle! It makes me realize just how awful I whistle.

Sadly, none of those are the song I'm thinking of but I very much appreciate everyone's efforts.

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@boomerang,

I know exactly what you're talking about....they played it at an NCAA game last night when the officials couldn't agree on a call. It's driving me nuts... I'm picturing an 80's coming-of-age movie with boys marching...ring any bells?

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Welcome to A2K, eshade, I will kill you now.

Seriously I finally got that song unstuck from my head and now I can't recall it so it's driving me crazy in reverse!!!!!!

Are you sure you aren't thinking of "Bridge on the River Kwai"? That involved marching:

The song I'm thinking of is very, very similar. The first two notes are the same. It might have been revised into a similar tune for another movie that involved marching. It is definately a marching song.

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You know, it occurred to me that you might have confused the "Colonel Bogey March" with one of John Philip Sousa's marches. The one which comes most readily to my mind as being similar would be the "Liberty Bell March," which most people would recognize as the theme music to the Monty Python's Flying Circus. At any event, every one of Sousa's 136 marches can be heard at this site in midi form.

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I know it isn't the Monty Python song so I guess I'll have to start working my way through the Sousa marches. It very well could be a non-whistled song that was famously whistled or that I've just heard whistled.

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Whistle while you work? From the cartoon Snow White.

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I seem to remember a commercial jingle from the 70's that sounded very similar. I thought it was Comet Cleanser, but after several minutes of Googling for it, I gave up.

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To the tune of Col. Bogey's March, we used to sing...

Comet, it makes your lips turn green
Comet, it tastes like gasoline
Comet, it makes you vomit
So get some Comet
And vomit
Today

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@boomerang,

We used to sing 'Hitler has only got one ball'

Anyway checkout the tracklisting on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-River-Kwai-Soundtrack-Recording/dp/B000002AN1

I suspect that what you are referring to is the 'Bridge over the River Kwai March' which is medleyed with Colonel Bogey (it's the last track) - anyway Boomer you might find it somewhere else in there.

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@hingehead,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8

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@boomerang,

this is fun....

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

We used to sing 'Hitler has only got one ball'

Rommel, had two but one was small...

I don't know about the song boom, but you gave me my new signature line.

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You can hum a tune into this site to identify it:

http://www.midomi.com/

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@Robert Gentel,

Oh my gawd.

How completely cool is that.

I imagine I have to have some high techy thingymabob beyond a keybord to hum into though.

Seriously, I'm like Amish without all the God stuff.

I'll probably have nighmares tonight of humming "Close To You" while some contraption like Auto from "Walll-E" tells me to shut up over and over and over.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

I imagine I have to have some high techy thingymabob beyond a keybord to hum into though.

Yeah, a microphone. I don't have one attached to my computer either.

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