One of our volunteer curators, Diana Hamilton, put together a playlist from the 78 RPM and Cylinder Archive collections featuring expert whistlers. You can download an m3u playlist, or visit the individual song pages below to download the audio files themselves.

• Whistling Coquette (Ada Jones and Joe Belmont)
• When June Comes Along With A Song (Billy Murray and the Great White Way Orchestra)
• The Whistler and his Dog (Arthur Pryor’s Band with whistling by Billy Murray & Margaret McKee)
• Whistle It (Billy Murray, Helen Trix and Edward Meeker)
• The Little Wooden Whistle Wouldn’t Whistle (SS Leviathan Orchestra with BillyMurray)
• Listen to the Mocking Bird and The Nightingale Song (Alma Gluck with Charles Kellogg)