I don't know what Slim Whitman thought about the fact that his recording of the song "Indian Love Call" saved the Earth from an invasion by psychopathic, bug-eyed Martian midgets, but when that fact gets into the lede of your obituary, you probably lived an interesting life.
Whitman had a nearly six-decade musical career and a three-octave range, best known for his falsetto yodel. He was probably most famous when he was being lampooned by Johnny Carson during the 1970s, but be put out a record as late as three years ago.
And though he might have worked in country and western, a genre known for its teary-eyed weepers about infidelity and divorce, Whitman and his wife Alma were married for 67 years until her death in 2009.
Happy trails, Slim.
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