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.
Whitman's son-in-law Roy Beagle said the singer died of heart failure at the Orange Park Medical Center in Florida.
Born Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. in Tampa on Jan. 23, 1923, Whitman's decades-long career yielded millions of record sales and produced a number of hits, including "Love Song of the Waterfall" and "Red River Valley."
His "Indian Love Call" which was featured in the 1996 film "Mars Attacks!" (The song fended off the Martian invasion by causing the aliens' heads to explode.)