CORRECTS DATE OF DEATH TO JUNE 19 - FILE - This undated file photo shows country singer Slim Whitman. Whitman died Wednesday, June 19, 2013 of heart failure in Florida. He was 90. Whitman's career ...

Slim Whitman, who has died aged 90, was a country singer and high-pitched yodeller who sold millions of records in the 1980s and 1990s. His tenor falsetto, ebony moustache and sideburns became global ...

This undated photo shows country singer Slim Whitman, who died Wednesday of heart failure in Florida. He was 90. Whitman's career began in the late 1940s, and his tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and ...

Slim Whitman, whose yodeling vocals sold millions of records and became a TV fixture in the '80s and '90s thanks to his seemingly ubiquitous ads, died Wednesday at age 90, the Associated Press reports ...

Countrypolitan singer-guitarist Slim Whitman has died, just six months short of his 90 th birthday. A Florida-born discovery of Colonel Tom Parker’s, Whitman signed with RCA Records in 1948. In 1950, ...

Slim Whitman recorded more than 65 albums and sold millions of records His high-pitched yodel saved the world in the Tim Burton comedy %27Mars Attacks%21%27 His last ...

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!,” ...

The yodeling singer gained fame in Europe as well as in the U.S. Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeling county music singer whose productive career spanned decades, died Wednesday, his son-in-law ...

SLIM Whitman, who died last Wednesday aged 89, topped the UK charts in the summer of 1955 with Rose Marie, the title song from a Twenties operetta by Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein ...

Slim Whitman has died, aged 90. The country music legend's son-in-law Roy Beagle has confirmed that Whitman passed away from heart failure earlier today (June 19) in Florida, reports The AP. Whitman ...