What is your favorate whistle song to play?
nights in white satin by the moody blues.
Bonaparte’s Retreat
A couple of hornpipes I learned, by Seán Ryan on track 3 of L. Nugent’s The Windy Gap CD. Great on a C whistle. 
Currently it’s Drowsy Maggie, but I only know a few tunes currently.
Favorite song - Stairway to Heaven.
Favorite current tunes - The Templehouse Jig, Tommy People’s Jig, The Musical Priest, Banish Misfortune.
Philo
I, too, like Nights In White Satin…which can easily morph into Summertime…and on into “This Land Is Mine”…and yeah verily on into any number of Irish Aires…trailing off into dreamy minor meadows known especially well to Low Whistle travelers. Such a journey feels like “one tune,” to me.
Aside. Playing this sort of continuum can be very seductive if one has an Overton Low Whistle as consort. Hu yahhh…
My favorite whistle tune is pretty much always the newest one I’m learning. Currently that would be the Cape Breton jigs from the Music at Matt Molloy’s cd.
Oops, just realized the question was “favorite SONG” not tune. My bad.
Ah, the old tune/songs debate! FWIW, I just wrote a letter to the Audobon society DEMANDING they change the classification of songbirds to tunebirds.
“old friends/bookends” fav tune on Low D Kerry Songbird.
Fav songs: Slane/Be Thou My Vision (low D), Broome of the Cowdenowes (Bb), MacPherson’s Rant (low G harmony)
Fav tunes: Gentle Maiden (Low D), Lord Drummond/Lord Inchiquin (anything except high D), Magh Seola (air, low G)
I can’t state one tune in particular…but my favorite series/set is St. Anne’s Reel into the Cincinnatti Hornpipe into Devil’s Dream and a 4th tune that I can’t remember the name of currently.
for a jig set I like to play O’keefe’s Slide into the Lilting Banshee into Jefferson and Liberty into New Tatter Jack into When Johnny Comes Marching Home and slow it down and finish with Shule Aroon(sorry for the spelling)
Stewy, that was pretty darn clever. Thanks for the laugh.
Favorite SONG: Danny Boy
Favorite TUNE: Innerlight (from Star Trek)
favorite song to play on whistle- He/She moved thorough the fair
favorite tune- the slip jig The Red Haired Girl
Favourite song:- Our Love Is Here To Stay
Favourite tunes:-Blue Monk, Moaning and Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West. Or was it the other way round?
I suppose I should throw in a favorite SONG as well. For Celtic music it would have to be The Dear Green Place by Battlefield Band
Oh my,
So many songs i love,
a list,
10 thousand miles away (aka known as palmer river song)
I’ll tell me ma
The Parting Glass, both the I trad version and “the Cottars” Version
Whiskey in the jar,
Haste to the wedding - yes it is a song
the black velvet band,
roddy mcCorley
some say the devils dead
mairi’s wedding
scotland the brave
nut brown maiden
redwing
new york girls
the springtime brings on the shearing
father o’flynn - annother song
boolavogue
the fields of athenry
lord of the dance
the green fields of france
raglan road
ryebuck shearer
only our rivers run free
i could rave on for ages but thats a good start
As for tunes…damn so many i love,
but the ones that have my attention at the moment are
the gravel walk…Wow i love this one
the torn jacket
road to lisdoonvarna
dick gossips
Deirdre shannon’s
jimmy ward’s jig
Inion Ni Scannlain (miss Scanlan)
scarce o’ Tatties
moon and seven stars
new rigged ship
kitty mcGee
Aaron’s key, damn fine tune this one
so many tunes so little time
but its what keeps me motivated,
check em out
have fun
regards
David
Favorite slow tune: I Will Return to Kintail
Favorite fast tunes: Dusty windowsill, Duncan Johnstone, Far from home.
My favorites change about as often as I change socks.
Tom
Here are a few of my favourite tunes:
Women of Ireland
Off to California
The traveller
Táimse im Chodladh
The cameronian reel
The Belfast hornpipe
O’Carolan’s Concerto! I don’t really think of it as a whistle song but it’s very fun to play.