Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (born January 20, 1924), known professionally as
Slim Whitman, is an American
country musicCountry music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer and songwriter, known for his yodelling abilities. He has sold in excess of 120 million albums in unit sales and has had numerous successful recordings. He is consistently more popular throughout Europe, and in particular Britain, than in his native America, particularly with his covers of pop standards and movie songs . His 1955 hit single "
Rose Marie"Rose Marie" is a popular song from the musical or operetta of the same name. In the original Broadway production in 1924 it was performed by Dennis King and Arthur Deagon as the characters Jim Kenyon and Sergeant Malone....
" held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK charts until
Bryan AdamsBryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
broke the record in 1991 after 36 years. In the U.S., his "
Indian Love Call"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" (1952) and "Secret Love" (1953) reached number 2 on the
BillboardBillboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
country chart. Whitman had a string of hits from the mid 1960s and into the 1970s and became known to a new generation of fans through TV marketing in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, he has continued to tour extensively around the world and release new material, and he was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film
Mars Attacks!Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and based on the cult trading card series of the same name. The film uses elements of black comedy, surreal humour, and political satire, and claims to be also a parody of multiple science fiction B movies...
. In 2010 a new album, called
Twilight on the Trail, was released featuring brand new material produced by his son Byron and featuring the single "Back in the Saddle Again",
Biography
Whitman was born in
Tampa, FloridaTampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, as Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. Growing up, he liked the country music of
Jimmie RodgersJames Charles Rodgers , known as Jimmie Rodgers, was an American country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling...
and songs of Gene Autry, but he did not embark on a musical career of his own until the end of
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, after he had served in the South Pacific with the
United States NavyThe United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
.
Whitman, a self-taught left-handed
guitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, is right-handed, but he had lost almost all of the second finger on his left hand in an accident. He worked at a Tampa shipyard while developing a musical career, eventually performing with a band known as the Variety Rhythm Boys. Whitman's first big break came when talent manager
"Colonel" Thomas Parker"Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley...
heard him singing on the radio and offered to represent him. Signed with
RCA RecordsRCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
, he was billed as "the cowboy singer Slim Whitman" and released his first
singleIn music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
in 1948. He toured and sang at a variety of venues, including on the radio show
Louisiana HayrideLouisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American music...
.
At first, he was not able to make a living from music and kept a part-time job. That changed in the early 1950s after he recorded a version of the
Bob NolanBob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...
hit "Love Song of the Waterfall," which made it into the country music top 10. His next single, "
Indian Love Call"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
," was even more successful, reaching number 2.
A yodeller, Whitman avoided the "down on yer luck buried in booze" songs, preferring instead to sing laid-back romantic melodies about simple life and love. Critics dubbed his style "countrypolitan," owing to its fusion of country music and a more sophisticated crooning vocal style. Although he has recorded many western tunes, love and romance songs figure prominently in his repertoire.
In 1955 in the United Kingdom, he had a No.1 hit on the
pop musicPop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
charts with "Rose Marie." With 11 weeks at the top of the UK charts, the song set a record that lasted for 36 years. Soon after, Whitman was invited to join the
Grand Ole OpryThe Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
, and in 1957, along with other musical stars, he appeared in the film musical
JamboreeJamboree is the name of a black and white 1957 rock 'n' roll motion picture directed by Roy Lockwood that runs for 71 minutes in mono RCA sound...
. Despite this exposure, he has never achieved the level of stardom in the United States that he did in Britain, where he had a number of other hits during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the early 1970s, he continued to record and was a guest on
Wolfman Jack'sRobert Weston Smith, known commonly as Wolfman Jack was a gravelly voiced US disc jockey who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early career:...
television show
The Midnight Special. At the time, Whitman's recording efforts were yielding only minor hits.
In 1979, Whitman produced a TV commercial to support Suffolk Marketing's release of a greatest hits compilation titled
All My Best-Chart performance:On the release day of All My Best in Japan, the album took the number-one spot on the Oricon daily album chart, selling 38.000 copies. On the weekly chart issue date September 21, the album took the spot with sales a little over 137,050, becoming Kuraki's second number-one album...
, which went on to be the best-selling TV-marketed record in music history, with almost 1.5 million units sold.
Just For You (also under the Suffolk umbrella), followed in 1980, with a commercial that claimed Whitman "was number one in England longer than
ElvisElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
and The Beatles."
The Best followed in 1982, with Whitman concluding his TV marketing with
Best Loved Favorites in 1989 and
20 Precious Memories in 1991.
The TV albums made Whitman (briefly) a household name in America for the first time in his career, resulting in everything from a first-time appearance on
Johnny CarsonJohn William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
's Tonight Show to Whitman being spoofed in a comic skit on
SCTVSCTV can refer to:*Second City Television, a Canadian sketch comedy television program*SCTV , an Indonesian TV station*SCTV , a television station of Sichuan province in China...
with him (played by
Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty is an American-Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV, from 1976 to 1984, and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks...
) starring in the
CheChe is a Spanish diminutive interjection commonly used in Argentina and Uruguay. A form of colloquial slang used in a vocative sense as "friend", and thus loosely corresponds to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", "bro", or "dude"; as used by various English speakers...
-like male lead in a
EvitaEvita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón. The story follows Evita's early life, rise to power, charity work, and eventual death.Evita began as...
-like Broadway musical on the life of Indira Ghandi. More importantly, the tv albums gave him a brief resurgence in mainstream country music with new album releases on major labels and a few new singles making the country chart. During this time he toured Europe and Australia with moderate success.
In late January 2008, a false rumour of his death spread through the Internet, believed to have been started by an erroneous report posted on the Web site of the
Nashville Tennessean newspaper. Country singer
George Hamilton IVGeorge Hege Hamilton IV is an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to country music in the early 1960s.-Biography:Hamilton was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
even dedicated and sang a hymn in Whitman's honor at a concert appearance.
In February 2009, his wife of sixty-seven years, Alma Geraldine (Jerry) Crist, died of kidney failure complications. She had been on dialysis. Whitman has a daughter, Sharon, and a son, Byron K. Whitman, who is also a performer and has toured and recorded with Whitman on numerous occasions.
Since 1957 Whitman has lived at Woodpecker Paradise, in
Middleburg, FloridaMiddleburg is a census-designated place in Clay County, Florida, United States, located 29 miles southwest of downtown Jacksonville, Florida, 16 miles northwest of Green Cove Springs, Florida, and home to Middleburg High School...
, a suburb of Jacksonville.
Legacy
For his contribution to the recording industry, Slim Whitman has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
at 1709 Vine Street. He was inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame and MuseumThe Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum identifies and preserves the evolving history and traditions of country music and educates its audiences...
's Walkway of Stars in 1968.
The late pop singer
Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
cited Whitman as one of his ten favorite vocalists. Beatle
George HarrisonGeorge Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
cited Whitman as an early influence: "The first person I ever saw playing a guitar was Slim Whitman, either a photo of him in a magazine or live on television. Guitars were definitely coming in." Paul McCartney credited a poster of Whitman with giving him the idea of playing his guitar left-handed with his guitar strung the opposite way to a right-handed player's.
The 1977 film
Close Encounters of the Third KindClose Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey...
features Whitman's rendition of "Love Song of the Waterfall" playing in the tollbooths as the cars speed through, chasing three alien spaceships. The 1996 film
Mars Attacks!Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and based on the cult trading card series of the same name. The film uses elements of black comedy, surreal humour, and political satire, and claims to be also a parody of multiple science fiction B movies...
features Whitman's rendition of "
Indian Love Call"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" as a weapon against alien invaders. In 2003,
Rob ZombieRob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
used Whitman's song
"I Remember You""I Remember You" is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.The song was one of several introduced in the movie The Fleet's In...
in his movie directorial debut in
House of 1000 CorpsesHouse of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 exploitation horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie; it is his directorial debut. It was released in the United States on April 11, 2003 by Lions Gate Entertainment.-Plot:...
. In the 2007 film
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 music comedy film written and produced by Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, directed by Kasdan and starring John C. Reilly...
, Dewey mentions Whitman in response to his wife when she asks him to name one musician who ever made any money.
Daniel JohnstonDaniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
mentions "singing like Slim Whitman" in his song "Wild West Virginia" from his 1981 album "
Songs of PainSongs of Pain is the first album by folk singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded on a simple tape recorder and released on Compact Cassette. Johnston recorded these songs in the basement of his parents' house in West Virginia. It was recorded in 1980 and 1981, and handed out to friends by...
."
Albums
| Year |
Album |
Chart Positions |
Label |
| US Country |
US The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
|
UK The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
|
| 1954 |
America's Favorite Folk Artist |
|
|
|
Imperial |
| Favorites |
|
|
|
| 1957 |
Slim Whitman Sings |
|
|
|
| 1959 |
My Best to You |
|
|
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| Country Favorites |
|
|
|
| 1960 |
I'll Walk with God |
|
|
|
| Songs of the Old Waterwheel |
|
|
|
| 1961 |
I'll Never Stop Loving You |
|
|
|
| Just Call Me Lonesome |
|
|
|
| Cool Water |
|
|
|
| Annie Laurie |
|
|
|
| 1962 |
Forever |
|
|
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| Sings |
|
|
|
| Heart Songs / Love Song |
|
|
|
| I'm a Lonely Wanderer |
|
|
|
| 1963 |
Yodeling |
|
|
|
| Irish Songs |
|
|
|
| 1964 |
All Time Favorites |
|
|
|
| Country Songs, City Hits |
|
|
|
| 1965 |
Love Song of the Waterfall |
20 |
|
|
| Reminiscing |
|
|
|
| 1966 |
More Than Yesterday
(More Country Songs & City Hits) |
28 |
|
|
| God's Hand in Mine |
|
|
|
| Travelin' Man |
|
|
|
| A Time for Love |
|
|
|
| 1967 |
15th Anniversary Album |
25 |
|
|
| Country Memories |
42 |
|
|
| 1968 |
In Love the Whitman Way |
16 |
|
|
| Happy Street |
34 |
|
|
| 1969 |
Slim |
|
|
|
| Christmas Album |
|
|
|
| 1970 |
Tomorrow Never Comes |
|
|
|
United Artists |
| 1971 |
Guess Who |
31 |
|
|
| It's a Sin to Tell a Lie |
23 |
|
|
| 1972 |
The Best of Slim Whitman |
|
|
|
| 1973 |
I'll See You When |
|
|
|
| 25th Anniversary Concert |
|
|
|
| 1974 |
Happy Anniversary |
|
|
|
| 1976 |
Everything Leads Back to You |
42 |
|
|
| 1977 |
Red River Valley |
|
|
1 |
| Home On the RangeUK Number 2 |
|
| 1980 |
Songs I Love to SingA |
25 |
175 |
|
Cleveland Int'l. |
| Christmas with Slim Whitman |
47 |
184 |
|
| 1981 |
Mr. Songman |
|
|
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| I'll Be Home for Christmas |
|
|
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| 1984 |
Angeline |
|
2010 |
"Twilight on the trail" |
- ASongs I Love to Sing also peaked at #24 on the RPM
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
Country Albums chart in Canada.
Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart Positions |
Album |
| US Country Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
|
US The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
|
UK |
CAN Country |
| 1952 |
"Love Song of the Waterfall" |
10 |
|
|
|
America's Favorite Folk Artist |
| "Bandera Waltz" |
|
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|
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| "In a Hundred Years or More" |
|
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single only |
| "Indian Love Call "Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" |
2 |
9 |
7 |
|
Favorites |
| "Amateur in Love" |
|
|
|
|
| "Keep It a Secret "Keep It a Secret" is a popular song written by Jessie Mae Robinson published in 1952.The best-selling recording of the song was made by Jo Stafford in 1952. It was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39891. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on November 8, 1952 and...
" |
3 |
|
|
|
| "My Heart Is Broken in Three" |
10 |
|
|
|
America's Favorite Folk Artist |
| 1953 |
"All That I'm Asking Is Sympathy" |
|
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|
|
Slim Whitman Sings |
| "Song of the Old Waterwheel" |
|
|
|
|
America's Favorite Folk Artist |
| "Danny Boy -Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...
" |
|
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|
singles only |
| "North Wind" |
8 |
|
|
|
| "Lord Help Me Be as Thou" |
|
|
|
| 1954 |
"Secret Love" |
2 |
|
|
|
Favorites |
| "Rose Marie "Rose Marie" is a popular song from the musical or operetta of the same name. In the original Broadway production in 1924 it was performed by Dennis King and Arthur Deagon as the characters Jim Kenyon and Sergeant Malone....
" |
4 |
|
1 |
|
| "Beautiful Dreamer "Beautiful Dreamer" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster . It was published posthumously in March 1864 by Wm. A. Pond & Co. of New York. The first edition declares on the title page that "Beautiful Dreamer" is "the last song ever written by Stephen C. Foster. Composed but a few days prior to his...
" |
|
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|
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| "Singing Hills" |
4 |
|
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|
single only |
| 1955 |
"The Cattle Call "The Cattle Call" is a song written and recorded in 1934 by American songwriter and musician Tex Owens. It became a signature song for Eddy Arnold....
" |
11 |
|
|
|
Favorites |
| "Roll On Silvery Moon" |
|
|
|
|
Slim Whitman Sings |
| "I'll Never Stop Loving You" |
|
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|
|
singles only |
| "Song of the Wild" |
|
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|
|
| 1956 |
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a song composed by Bob Nolan, one of the founding members of the Sons of the Pioneers. Although one of the most famous songs associated with cowboys, the song was composed by Nolan back in the 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles...
" |
|
|
19 |
|
Slim Whitman Sings |
| "I'm a Fool" |
|
|
16 |
|
| "Whiffenpoof Song" |
|
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|
|
singles only |
| "Smoke Signals" |
|
|
|
|
| 1957 |
"Careless Love" |
|
|
|
|
| "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" |
|
93 |
7 |
|
Slim Whitman Sings |
| "Unchain My Heart" |
|
|
|
|
Country Favorites |
| 1958 |
"Careless Hands" |
|
|
|
|
My Best to You |
| "Candy Kisses" |
|
|
|
|
| "Put Your Trust in Me" |
|
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|
|
| "At the End of Nowhere" |
|
|
|
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| 1959 |
"I Never See Maggie Alone" |
|
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|
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| "Tree in the Meadow" |
|
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|
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| "Fool Such as I" |
|
|
|
|
| "Roll River Roll" |
|
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|
|
Cool Water |
| 1960 |
"I'll Walk with God" |
|
|
|
|
I'll Walk with God |
| "Wind" |
|
|
|
|
Cool Water |
| "Ramona" |
|
|
|
|
Just Call Me Lonesome |
| 1961 |
"Just Call Me Lonesome" |
|
|
|
|
| "The Bells That Broke My Heart" |
30 |
|
|
|
| "Once in a Lifetime" |
|
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|
|
Cool Water |
| "Old Spinning Wheel" |
|
|
|
|
Annie Laurie |
| "It Sure Looks Lonesome Outside" |
|
|
|
|
| 1962 |
"Annie Laurie" |
|
|
|
|
| "Backward Turn Backward" |
|
|
|
|
I'm a Lonely Wanderer |
| "Blues Stay Away from Me" |
|
|
|
|
Heart Songs / Love Song |
| "Wayward Wind" |
|
|
|
|
Sings |
| 1963 |
"Love Letters in the Sand" |
|
|
|
|
| "So Long Mary" |
|
|
|
|
All Time Favorites |
| "Broken Down Merry-Go-Round" |
|
|
|
|
| "My Wild Irish Rose" |
|
|
|
|
Irish Songs |
| "Maria Lena" |
|
|
|
|
single only |
| 1964 |
"Tell Me Pretty Words" |
48 |
|
|
|
All Time Favorites |
| "I'll Hold You in My Heart" |
|
|
|
|
Country Songs, City Hits |
| "Virginia" |
|
|
|
|
Love Song of the Waterfall |
| 1965 |
"Reminiscing"A |
|
|
|
|
Reminiscing |
| "More Than Yesterday" |
8 |
|
|
|
More Than Yesterday
(More Country Songs & City Hits) |
| 1966 |
"The Twelfth of Never" |
17 |
|
|
|
| "I Remember You" |
49 |
134 |
|
|
Travelin' Man |
| "One Dream" |
54 |
|
|
|
A Time for Love |
| 1967 |
"What's This World A-Comin' To" |
56 |
|
|
|
| "I'm a Fool" |
61 |
|
|
|
15th Anniversary Album |
| "The Keeper of the Key" |
65 |
|
|
|
Country Memories |
| 1968 |
"Rainbows Are Back in Style" |
17 |
|
|
6 |
In Love the Whitman Way |
| "Happy Street" |
22 |
|
|
10 |
Happy Street |
| "Livin' On Lovin' (And Lovin' Livin' with You)" |
43 |
|
|
|
| 1969 |
"My Happiness" |
43 |
|
|
|
| "Irresistible" |
61 |
|
|
|
Slim |
| 1970 |
"Tomorrow Never Comes" |
27 |
|
|
|
Tomorrow Never Comes |
| "Shutters and Boards" |
26 |
|
|
|
| 1971 |
"Guess Who" |
7 |
121 |
|
5 |
Guess Who |
| "Something Beautiful (To Remember)" |
6 |
|
|
23 |
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie |
| "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" |
21 |
|
|
|
| 1972 |
"Loveliest Night of the Year" |
56 |
|
|
|
| "Little Drops of Silver" |
|
|
|
|
single only |
| "(It's No) Sin" |
51 |
|
|
|
The Best of Slim Whitman |
| 1973 |
"Hold Me" |
73 |
|
|
|
I'll See You When |
| "Where the Lilacs Grow" |
88 |
|
|
|
| 1974 |
"It's All in the Game" |
82 |
|
|
|
Happy Anniversary |
| "Happy Anniversary" |
|
|
14 |
|
| 1975 |
"Foolish Question" |
|
|
|
|
I'll See You When |
| "Everything Leads Back to You" |
|
|
|
|
Everything Leads Back to You |
| "Mexicali Rose" |
|
|
|
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| 1977 |
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| 1980 |
"When" |
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Songs I Love to Sing |
| "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" |
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"I Remember You" (re-recording) |
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| "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" |
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| "If I Had My Life to Live Over" |
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"My Melody of Love" |
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"Cry Baby Heart" |
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- A"Reminiscing" peaked at #4 on the RPM
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada.
B Sides
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"China Doll" |
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Soundtracks
- Vice — "Tennessee Waltz" (2007)
- House of 1000 Corpses — "I Remember You
"I Remember You" is the sixth single by the Japanese artist Yui. It was released on September 20, 2006, under Sony Records. This single is Yui's first single that has two editions.-Track listing:Normal EditionLimited EditionNormal Edition + DVD...
" (2003)
- Mars Attacks! — "Indian Love Call
"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" (1996)
- Mars Attacks! — "I'm Casting My Lasso Towards The Sky" (1996)
- Who'll Stop the Rain — "I'll Step Down" (1978)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind — "Love Song of the Waterfall" (1977)
Filmography
- The Midnight Special TV (January 23, 1981)
- The Midnight Special TV (August 19, 1972)
- Jamboree (1957)
- Stir Crazy (1980, vocal)
External links