Slim Whitman

SLIM WHITMAN d2013. American country & western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto. He has sold in excess of 120 million records. Historically he has been consistently more popular throughout Europe (in particular Britain) than in his native America, particularly with his covers of pop standards / movie songs / love songs / folk tunes and gospel melodic hymns. His 1955 hit single "Rose Marie" held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at No1 on the UK singles chart, until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1991 after 36 years. In the US, his Indian Love Call (1952) and Secret Love (1953) both reached No2 in the country charts. Whitman had a string of hits from the mid 1960s, into the 1970s, becoming known to a new generation of fans through TV direct marketing in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, he continued to tour extensively around the world and release new material .... He died in June 2013 at the age of 90.