Slim Whitman, Earth's Savior, Dies At 90

The guy had many jokes poked at him.  They ranged from Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show to being the savior of Earth in Tim Burton's 1996 comedy, Mars Attacks!, but he sure as hell sold a lot of records.

Slim Whitman, the yodeling country singer, died yesterday at age 90 in Orange Park, Florida of heart failure.

In Mars Attacks!, Whitman's song, "Indian Love Call" caused the Martians's heads to explode when it was played at high volume in their vicinity.

Whitman was a postman in the early 1950s when he recorded his first hit, "Love Song of the Waterfall."

According to the New York Times:

He recorded more than 500 songs, made more than 100 albums and sold more than 70 million records.

He laughed all the way to the bank when he started airing commercials (more like a blitz) in 1979 advertising his greatest hits album, "All My Best."  Although the ad campaign became the butt of jokes, it sold a hell of a lot of records.

To read more on Whitman, go here.