Ennio Morricone- King of the Whistling Film Soundtrack
For A Few Dollars More:
A Fistful of Dollars:
The Good, Bad and the Ugly:
Who was the whistler on all those Morricone spaghetti western sountracks?
Alessandro Alessandroni- The mysterious whistler on the Morriccone soundtracks.
The whistler the Morricone soundtracks was Alessandro Alessandroni, a childhood friend of Morricone's. Like Morricone, Alessandroni was an Italian film soundtrack artist and composed almost as many film scores as Morricone.
The music of Morricone & Alessondri was so similar, it's hard to tell if Morricone influenced Alessondri's music; or if it was Alessondri who influenced Morricone's music. Alessandroni was a musical prodigy who played guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion, and piano.
Alessandro played that twangy guitar you hear on all of Morricone's spaghetti western soundtracks. His guitar playing was a brilliant blend of Dick Dale surf guitar and Duane Eddy style rockabilly flat-picking.