Post by Rob Durkee on Jun 19, 2013 11:35:05 GMT -5
He’s the only singer I took my mother out on a date to see perform. It was in 1980 at the Richfield (Ohio) Coliseum.
For 36 years (1955-1991), he held the record for the longest running #1 on the British pop chart with 11 weeks.
He sold over 120 million records.
He once saved the world!
And we joked a lot about him.
Ottis Dewey (Slim) Whitman Jr. died today (6/19/13) at the Orange Park (Florida) Medical Center. He was 90.
Sources differ as his date of birth. Some day January 24, 1923 while others claim it’s January 24, 1924. But there was no question as to his unique singing and yodeling style, including this song that set that British chart record feat…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROq4YFsiP1Y
“(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams matched the chart feat set by “My Rose Marie” in 1991.
Meanwhile, Slim had three dozen country chart hits, with this one, a #2 hit in 1952…his biggest…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSsJmrI2XFg
THAT was the song that actually saved the world! In the 1996 sci-fi comedy spoof movie "Mars Attacks," that's the song that's played...and causes the little green men to have their heads blow up!
OK, go ahead and laugh. Cleveland’s Friday night comedy team of Hooligan and Big Chuck referred to him as “Slim Whitski.” Another Cleveland TV host of old movies, Superhost, had his own "Fat Whitman" ads.
And Slim laughed all the way to the bank.
For 36 years (1955-1991), he held the record for the longest running #1 on the British pop chart with 11 weeks.
He sold over 120 million records.
He once saved the world!
And we joked a lot about him.
Ottis Dewey (Slim) Whitman Jr. died today (6/19/13) at the Orange Park (Florida) Medical Center. He was 90.
Sources differ as his date of birth. Some day January 24, 1923 while others claim it’s January 24, 1924. But there was no question as to his unique singing and yodeling style, including this song that set that British chart record feat…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROq4YFsiP1Y
“(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams matched the chart feat set by “My Rose Marie” in 1991.
Meanwhile, Slim had three dozen country chart hits, with this one, a #2 hit in 1952…his biggest…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSsJmrI2XFg
THAT was the song that actually saved the world! In the 1996 sci-fi comedy spoof movie "Mars Attacks," that's the song that's played...and causes the little green men to have their heads blow up!
OK, go ahead and laugh. Cleveland’s Friday night comedy team of Hooligan and Big Chuck referred to him as “Slim Whitski.” Another Cleveland TV host of old movies, Superhost, had his own "Fat Whitman" ads.
And Slim laughed all the way to the bank.