Some time ago, someone posted a sound file with a whistle version of this tune. I really liked it and I remember downloading it, but I can’t find it anymore. Is it still around? Does anyone still have it?
Thanks.
I’ve no idea about the file.
I just tried it in a few keys on a D whistle. Try it in Bm, starting on second octave F# and you won’t have any difficult fingering to negotiate. Am, starting on second octave E is also not hard, but you might find some of the phrases involving Cnat a bit tricky. Fingering in Em is also easy but to get in the phrase that goes down to B (in that key) you’d need to start on second octave B which is a bit too shrill for my liking. Apart from the Cnat if you choose Am, you won’t need to half hole or cross finger.
Bm (starting on the second octave F#) is definitely the way to go.
If you have a really breathy, raspy sounding whistle, try imagining that you’re playing along with the Janis Joplin version–although you may need to switch whistle keys to actually play along with the record.
Unless I’m mixing up two different tunes, I saw this in one of the Walton’s books as “The Golden Jubilee”, starting out on first-octave A
A-F#-A-A-B-A-F#-A . . .
Very easy tune, sounds better with minimal tonguing and ornamentation.
ABC
eCe dCdeC Ae
eCddCACACB
eCee dCCeCAE
EGEGACedCA
lower case = upper octave
upper case = lower octave
The C’s are sharp i.e. no holes covered.
You should be able to work out yer own note lengths
but the above is from sheet music in key D
HTH
Errr… DCrom appears to have posted an entirely different tune, and Easily Deluded Fool gives the wrong key signature (if you start Summertime on E, C’s are very definitely natural, not sharp) and places some notes in the wrong octave.
Can’t possibly be the same tune. Even the most generous first octave start would have you running out of notes at the bottom. Fiddling with the melody to accomodate this would sound lousy and is unnecessary as it is dead easy in Bm on a D whistle.
If you want to play it in Dm with the easiest fingering you’d need an F whistle.
BY the way, just checked the complete Porgy and Bess score, and B minor starting on second octave F# is in fact the original key of the song. It’s perfectly written to be played on whistle. 
I think I’m mixing up two different tunes. "The Golden Jubilee does match, exactly, I tune I remember from childhood whose lyrics start out “In the good old summertime . . .” - starting on 1st octave “A”, the lowest note in the tune is 1st octave “D”
Nothing too rare for me, alas - I was really surprised to find that the Irish “The Foggy Dew” shared neither tune nor lyrics with the American folk song of the same name.
“When I was a young man I lived by myself/And followed the Weaver’s Trade . . .”
Hmmm. I need to see how well the American folk version sits on the whistle (wanders off).
Yep, you are I’m afraid. T’aint necessarily so. The one in question begins:
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy,
Fish are jumpin’ do de do dah etc
From the show Porgy and Bess unless I’m misremembering.
Dave Auty is yer man for this tune.I’m sure that ‘clips and snips’ has a link to Dave’s excellent website,where you’ll find his version of this tune.
I’d recommend an Eb or Bb whistle (low Eb would be a gas!) - maybe I’m just an old Jazzbuff!
Actually, I learned to play the notes back when it was first posted, but I really liked the interpretation that person gave. I was hoping to do a little learning by ear and improve my style on the piece.
Kevin, I’d have thought Tyne and Wear would be a bit nippy at this time of the year for playing jazz in the buff. 
Smack Yes, two different tunes. Can’t remember the Gershwin tune note-for-note, but I remember enough to see you’re right.
Still curious about whether anyone else knows about “The Golden Jubiliee/In the Good Old Summertime” correspondence though - Walton’s lists this one as “traditional”, I think. Though this wouldn’t be the first Irish tune that found a new name and lyrics after crossing the ocean
I downloaded the dots and an mp3 from one of the usual sites but I don’t know which one. The one I downloaded is in the key of d. I also downloaded Someone to Watch Over Me at the same time.
Ron
Yeah,well (ahem),certain parts of the anatomy do resemble the Garklien at the moment! 
Here is a link:
Stop it,stop it!
You have me breaking out the old Alto Sax. and donning the beret again!
That’s it. Thanks.
Does anyone else get the dreaded “404- Page Not Found” type message?
when I go to that site?