SemiNoTV: Slim Whitman Dies at 90

[Mark Jeffries]

The veteran country singer was never a crossover success until the end of the 70s, when thanks to an infamous direct-response ad for a greatest hits album he became sort of a mainstream star, if you can call being a regular target of Johnny Carson a star:

http://www.thewrap.com/music/column-post/slim-whitman-country-singer-dead-90-98316

[Michael]

I fondly recall SCTV's "Evita" parody "Indira," starring Andrea Martin as Indira Gandhi playing herself and Joe Flaherty as Slim Whitman playing revolutionary Punji Guevara: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSmbd00zsqQ