RFI: Slim Whitman

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To Americans between 25-40, those TV commercials selling Slim Whitman records were ubiquitous.

Someone must have bought these things. Are any of them ILXers (or friends and/or family of same)? If so, what does this guy's music actually sound like?

(no cheating -- that scene in Mars Attacks! wr2 Mr. Whitman doesn't count!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 6 December 2002 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

He sings with a pronounced warbley yodel. No joke.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 December 2002 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

slim is great stuff. i'll back up alex in nyc on the yodel. i've got an lp with "indian love call", the mars attacks tune you mention...

anything that collects his singles from the 50's probably gathers the best of.
m.

― msp, Friday, 6 December 2002 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard he's sold millions of records in Europe. Or was that Boxcar Willie?

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 6 December 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Both of them sold more records worldwide* than Elvis and the Beatles combined... But Richard Clayderman tops them all...

*in 1954

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 December 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i never really took him seriously but i loved that song, so i bought a greatest hits cd after seein m.a.

― ron (ron), Saturday, 7 December 2002 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

man this shit is weird

his voice is all over the place

― amateurist0, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

Indeed.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 15 April 2012 01:22 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

RIP

― عليك ارتداء ماكياج من مهرج مثلي الجنس المتداول مائة عميق في سيارة مصغر (Eisbaer), Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:52 (twelve years ago)

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