Death of Slim Whitman

January 20, 1923 - June 19, 2013
Orange Park, Florida | Age 90

Country singer dies at age 90
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TERRY SPENCER, The Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90.

Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park Medical Center, his son-in-law Roy Beagle said.

Whitman's tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and sideburns became global trademarks —...

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