The Whistling Tune
Whats the tune that the grave diggers whistle and the wife plays on the piano?
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It's been years since I saw that movie, as a child, and it scared the crap out of me. (Seriously, it messed up my head for months!) But I think the song
is "Cockles and Mussels," also known as "Molly Malone."
I wrote elsewhere on this thread about the song.
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Would anyone knonw if it is the same song whistled repeatedly in "And Then There Were None" (1945 version)? I swear it is, but I am not 100% sure.
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Right there with ya, I was 7 or 8 when I saw it and besides the initial 'trauma' from the thought of being buried alive, that song freaked me out for years !!
I was so into horror movies as a kid, along with all the others on my block, that our parents really didn't give it a thought until the night terrors some of these flix caused got parents talking.
I bought all the models too - the ones you had to put together with glue and paint with model paint and brush, including a working guillotine which really knocked the head off a poor French man !! There was 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein' and my favorite the 'Wolfman'. They were very accurate replicas of the actors who played them. There were a few others that I wasn't really in to like 'The Creature From the Black Lagoon' ... Along with the TV shows like 'Chiller Theatre' and 'Creature Feature', 'horror' was BIG ((at least where I lived - NYC area).
Then came the Beatles and the Stones and it all started changing :-)
Oh nice, I see now that I've replied to an almost 10 year old comment.
Now I'm replying to a many months old comment, to say I enjoyed your comment, no matter how old the post which prompted you to respond.
I too wanted to know the name of the song. As soon as I heard the eerie version, when I was watching the movie, today, I was struck by déjà vu.
I remember watching scary movies as a child and creeping closer and closer to my mother, until I was literally hiding behind her chair and barely peeping out, from behind.
Of course, I didn't stop me from hearing everything, which is why this rendition tickled my memory. The neighborhood kids weren't allowed to hang and watch TV at our house, once they went home and told their parents they had seen a horror film. There may have been a method to my mother's madness! :)
I saw this movie in 1971. The whistling creeped me out. I forgot the movie, but I remembered the whistling. I have since found out what the song was. I just found out from the I Need to Know board that this was the movie that had the song. http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/nest/50249063
I heard the song in Ordinary Decent Criminal yesterday. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160611/)
Here's the lyrics of the song:
Molly Malone
(James Yorkston)
In Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
Where she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh".
Chorus
Alive, alive oh, alive, alive oh,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh".
She was a fishmonger and sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they both wheeled their barrows
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"
She died of a fever and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"
Arranged by Schlagsaite 1996
As sung by Frank / Schlagsaite on Tape: Fun-Folk
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/m/mollymal.html
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An excellent live version of this song is on The Limeliters' 2nd album, TONIGHT: IN PERSON (1961), which should be available on CD.
shareThe whistling was extremely irritating.
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