The history of whistling courtesy of the Collective Cadenza – Happy Friday!
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- 4 May 2012
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- Rob Alderson
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Books, theses and any number of magazine articles have been written about the history of popular music but when it comes down to it there’s only really one way to rock it – and that’s in tune. The Collective Cadenza aka cdza have followed up the hugely popular history of nonsense lyrics (see below) with a history of songs which contain whistling. Ranging from Billy Joel to Bob Sinclair, Lt F.J Ricketts to Warren G, it’s three minutes of marvellous lip-assisted loveliness, spanning 98 years and 26 tunes. I particularly enjoyed the double bass player corpsing right at the start. Your move Friday.
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.