"Whispering" is a popular song with words and music by the brothers Malvin and John Schonberger, and originally recorded on August 23, 1920 by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra for Victor as 18690-A. Denver-born ex-army bandleader Whiteman was dubbed "King of Jazz", an appellation supported largely by a long series of hits beginning in 1920 with his release of "Whispering", an eleven-week U.S. No. 1 hit, which stayed 20 weeks in the charts and sold in excess of two million copies.^[1]

It has been rarely covered since its original release;^{[citation needed]} however, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra have covered the song on at least one album (The Best of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra in 1973). George Gershwin made a piano roll of his own arrangement (really a set of variations) for solo piano which is currently available on a commercial recording, as is an arrangement for voices and piano by the Comedian Harmonists. Also, an excerpt of this was part of the 1976 disco song Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. Most web searches refer the title as Whispering/Cherchez La Femme/Se Si bon aside from the "Cherchez..." entry ^[2]

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