Whispering Grass Whispering Grass "Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)" is a popular song written by Fred Fisher and his daughter Doris Fisher. The song was first recorded by Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra in 1940. The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny also recorded it the same year. A live instrumental version was played and recorded by Johnny Hodges with Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the Cristal Ballroom, Fargo, North Dakota, also in 1940. "Whispering Grass" was a 1975 UK number-one single by Windsor Davies and Don Estelle. Davies and Estelle were actors in the successful sitcom "It Ain't Half Hot
Don Estelle of "Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting" as "Little Don" of the "East End Art Mafia". In his autobiography "Sing Lofty: Thoughts Of A Gemini", Estelle was extremely bitter about modern-day entertainment, attacking those who refused to rerun "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" as "tight-crutched, white-trousered morons". According to his obituary in "The Independent", "in recent years Estelle cut a slightly sorry figure, dressed in his "Lofty" outfit, setting out a stall of his tapes and singing to passers-by in shopping centres. He played a dirty old man in the promotional video for "The Sun" Page Three Girl Jo