Two questions: What puts you in a good mood and what do you do when you are in a good mood? My first thought is whistling. Yet the same two questions seem to apply there. Does whistling put people in a good mood or do they whistle when they are in a good mood? The old school thinking here may come from the Seven Dwarves: whistle while you work. This would lead me to say that we whistle to help get through work in a good mood, so whistling comes first. Then there is the old Jim Naybor show where he whistles because he is in a good mood.

There is a song by the Newsboys called Breakfast that has a good whistling part. The theme of it is that they don’t serve breakfast in Hell, so I assume the whistling is not from those people as they try to improve their mood. The Bangles whistled for a part after telling us to walk like an Egyptian. Pretty sure the mood has to come before whistling or walking that way. J. Geils Bands whistles because their “Angel is a Centerfold”, while Otis Reading whistled because he was “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay.” Bobby McFerrin though, will have you whistle to cut you “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Billy Joel confused me because the whistling introduced and ended the “Stranger” and I was not sure if this was a second personality or just some mysterious effect for the song.

Maybe my love for whistling comes from the Hershey commercial, because it may have started there. I think of a kid and a Hershey bar, and I want to smile and whistle. The song goes like this:

“There is nothing like the face of a kid eating a Hershey bar.
There’s nothing like it you’ll ever see, a face as happy as it can be.
There nothing like the face of a kid when he’s munching on the greatest taste around,
Hershey is, the great American Chocolate bar.”

May you have some chocolate, smile, and whistle in that order as you have a Happy Friday. Remember to subscribe on the Perspectives page.

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