Drop the name Freeman Davis or Brother Bones and you're likely to be greeted with a blank stare. But chances are you've heard his music, probably hundreds of times. You see, he's the whistle behind the Harlem Globetrotters theme song for the last half-century, "Sweet Georgia Brown". (Why am I feeling like Paul Harvey? "And now you know...the rest... of the story!")
If you're in that 2-3% of the world's population that can't get enough whistling in your music, then The Online Guide to Whistling Records is like high-pitched aural mannah from heaven, with bios and over 100 MP3s of Brother Bones, Elmo Tanner, Fred Lowery and other tweeters. A good starter might be the William Tell Overture Finale, (that's theme from The Lone Ranger for the elbows-on-the-table crowd) as whistled by Fred "The Blind Whistler" Lowery.
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